Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy, Research, Capacity and Influence

• Opportunities for and Constraints to Women’s Empowerment in Tanzania’s Cashew Value Chain

  Published on September 30, 2023
  PRCI Research Paper 22. Opportunities for and Constraints to Women’s Empowerment in Tanzania’s Cashew Value Chain

• Confluence of climate, violence, disease, and cost shocks: vulnerability of and impacts on Nigerian Maize Traders

  Published on September 6, 2023
  PRCI Research Paper #20. Confluence of climate, violence, disease, and cost shocks: vulnerability of and impacts on Nigerian Maize Traders

• Institutional Arrangements Between Sugarcane Growers and Millers in Uganda and Implications for Grower Productivity and Profitability

  Published on September 1, 2023
  PRCI Research Paper #22 Institutional Arrangements Between Sugarcane Growers and Millers in Uganda and Implications for Grower Productivity and Profitability

• Sugarcane Production and Food Security in Uganda

  Published on September 1, 2023
  PRCI Research Paper #23 Sugarcane Production and Food Security in Uganda

• The Impact of Chemical Fertilizer Ban on the Paddy Sector: Propensity Score Matching and Value Chain Analysis

  Published on September 1, 2023
  PRCI Research Paper #21 The Impact of Chemical Fertilizer Ban on the Paddy Sector: Propensity Score Matching and Value Chain Analysis

• Structural Transformation in Rural Ghana: The Trends and Drivers

  Published on August 1, 2023
  PRCI Research Paper #19. Structural Transformation in Rural Ghana: The Trends and Drivers

• Linking crop productivity, market participation and technology use among smallholder farmers: Evidence from Uganda

  Published on July 26, 2023
  PRCI Research Paper #18. Linking crop productivity, market participation and technology use among smallholder farmers: Evidence from Uganda.

• Market Power in Philippine Agricultural Markets

  Published on July 26, 2023
  PRCI Research Paper #17. Market Power in Philippine Agricultural Markets.

• Thailand Seafood Trade Flow and Its Challenges

  Published on June 21, 2023
  PRCI Research Paper #16. Thailand Seafood Trade Flow and Its Challenges will compare three industries including canned tuna, canned sardines, and frozen shrimp.

• Determinant Factors of Lao Farmers’ Engagement to Agricultural Value Chains: A Case Study of Cassava

  Published on May 30, 2023
  PRCI Research Paper #15. This study aims to investigate the factors that influence Lao farmers' participation in the cassava value chain.

• Consumption of fruits and vegetables by types and sources across urban and rural Senegal

  Published on March 14, 2023
  Faye, N. F., Fall, T., Reardon, T., Theriault, V., Ngom, Y., Barry, M. B., & Sy, M. R. (2023). Consumption of fruits and vegetables by types and sources across urban and rural Senegal. Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies.

• Measuring the Heterogeneous Effects of Input Subsidies on Household Outcomes: Evidence from Malawi

  Published on February 7, 2023
  Working Paper from the STAAARS+ Fellowship program cohort 2 team from Malawi about input subsidy effects on household outcomes in Malawi.

• Assessment of the Policy Enabling Environment for Large-Scale Food Fortification (LSFF) —With an Application to Kenya—

  Published on December 5, 2022
  PRCI Research Paper #13. Assessment of the policy enabling environment for large-scale food fortification using a novel framework.

• Developments in Agriculture Trade in the BIMSTEC Region

  Published on October 19, 2022
  Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) research paper on developments in agriculture trade in the BIMSTEC region

• Policy support for sustainable agricultural intensification in Sub-Saharan Africa: Where are we 20 years on?

  Published on April 5, 2022
  Research Paper # 10. This study critically reviewed policy documents and associated budgets of six sub-Saharan African countries GDP and almost 60% of inorganic fertilizer use in the region.

• THE EXPORT POTENTIAL OF LAOS AGRI-FOOD TO THE EU MARKET

  Published on April 5, 2022
  Research Paper #9. This study aims to understand the export potential of Lao agri-food products, export impediments, and composition of market access for exporting Lao agricultural products to the EU market.

• DOMESTIC OR IMPORTED? AN ANALYSIS OF RICE DEMAND IN SENEGAL

  Published on January 3, 2022
  Research Paper #8. This paper contributes to the rice policy debate by analyzing the demand side using the case study of Senegal in West Africa.

• A Geometric Analysis of Technological Heterogeneity in the Agricultural Sector: Evidence from Maize in Tanzania

  Published on January 1, 2022
  Research Paper # 12: This paper presents a new framework to measure farm-level heterogeneity, and productivity change, and to study the rate and direction of technical change within an agricultural sector.

• TRADE FLOW PATTERNS IN NEPAL

  Published on December 28, 2021
  Research Paper #7. Nepal’s agriculture sector is characterized by low productivity, inadequate infrastructure, reliance on rain-fed traditional agriculture, and a feeble supply chain that slows agriculture even within the country.

• SRI LANKA’S AGRI-FOOD TRADE: STRUCTURE, OPPORTUNITIES, CHALLENGES & IMPACTS OF COVID-19

  Published on December 26, 2021
  Research Paper #6. This paper analyses Sri Lanka’s opportunities and challenges in agri-food trade amid COVID-19.