A Ford Ramsey,Barry K Goodwin,William F Hahn et al.
A Ford Ramsey et al.
Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) has caused ongoing disruptions to U.S. meat markets via demand and supply-side shocks. Abnormally high prices have been reported at retail outlets and meat packers have been accused of unfair business practices b...
Food prices and marketing margins during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from vegetable value chains in Ethiopia [0.03%]
埃塞俄比亚新冠肺炎疫情期间的食物价格与营销毛利润：来自蔬菜产业链的证据
Kalle Hirvonen,Bart Minten,Belay Mohammed et al.
Kalle Hirvonen et al.
It is widely feared that the shock of the COVID-19 pandemic will lead to a significant worsening of the food security situation in low and middle-income countries. One reason for this is the disruption of food marketing systems and subseque...
Impacts of COVID-19 induced income and rice price shocks on household welfare in Papua New Guinea: Household model estimates [0.03%]
新冠肺炎疫情对巴布亚新几内亚家庭福利的影响：基于户调查的估计模型
Emily Schmidt,Paul Dorosh,Rachel Gilbert
Emily Schmidt
Concerns over the potential effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have led to trade restrictions by major rice exporters, contributing to an average 25% increase in Thai and Vietnamese rice export prices between December 2019 and March-September...
COVID-19 and impacts on global food systems and household welfare: Introduction to a special issue [0.03%]
新冠肺炎疫情对全球粮食系统和家庭福利的影响：特刊简介
Johan Swinnen,Rob Vos
Johan Swinnen
The food system, and those who depend on it, have been strongly but unevenly affected by COVID-19. Overall, the impacts on food systems, poverty, and nutrition have been caused by a combination of a generalized economic recession and disrup...
Can improved agricultural technologies spur a green revolution in Africa? A multicountry analysis of seed and fertilizer delivery systems [0.03%]
改进农业技术能在非洲引发一场绿色革命吗？种子和化肥供应体系的多国分析
Joshua Ariga,Edward Mabaya,Michael Waithaka et al.
Joshua Ariga et al.
Sub-Saharan Africa faces low agricultural productivity amid a confluence of trends that include rapid population growth, climate change, and the rise of the middle class. To raise productivity, governments-in partnership with donors and dev...
Cheryl R Doss,Agnes R Quisumbing
Cheryl R Doss
New data and new methods have provided many new insights into rural households in the past 50 years. We analyze what we have learned from household models since Boserup and Becker, using this to frame more recent findings about household be...
Can women's self-help groups improve access to information, decision-making, and agricultural practices? The Indian case [0.03%]
妇女自助团体能否提高信息获取、决策和农业实践能力？印度的案例研究
Kalyani Raghunathan,Samyuktha Kannan,Agnes R Quisumbing
Kalyani Raghunathan
Effective agricultural extension is key to improving productivity, increasing farmers' access to information, and promoting more diverse sets of crops and improved methods of cultivation. In India, however, the coverage of agricultural exte...
The impact of the use of new technologies on farmers' wheat yield in Ethiopia: evidence from a randomized control trial [0.03%]
关于埃塞俄比亚农民利用新技术对小麦产量影响的实地随机实验证据分析报告
Gashaw Tadesse Abate,Tanguy Bernard,Alan de Brauw et al.
Gashaw Tadesse Abate et al.
In 2013, Ethiopia's Agricultural Transformation Agency introduced the Wheat Initiative to increase smallholder productivity. In this article, we measure the impacts of the Wheat Initiative package of technologies, and its marketing assistan...
Robert T Jensen,Nolan H Miller
Robert T Jensen
World food prices have increased dramatically in recent years. We use panel data from 2006 to examine the impact of these increases on the consumption and nutrition of poor households in two Chinese provinces. We find that households in Hun...