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

• 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.

• Cambodia’s Agri-Food Trade: Structure, New Emerging Potentials, Challenges & Impacts of Covid-19

  Published on December 24, 2021
  Research Paper #5. This study provides overall analysis and informs readers about Cambodia’s agri-food trade regarding recent structures of trade flows, new emerging potentials, main challenges, and impacts of COVID-19.

• The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Thailand’s Agricultural Export Flows

  Published on December 24, 2021
  Research Paper #4. The spread of COVID-19 has caused uncertainty in Thailand agricultural trade flows. This study makes a preliminary analysis to explore the impact of COVID-19 on Thailand’s agri-food export flows.

• How Specific Resilience Pillars Mitigate the Impact of Drought on Food Security: Evidence from Uganda

  Published on December 6, 2021
  Research Paper #3. This paper studies household resilience capacities in Uganda with a special focus on how different resilience capacities mitigate the impact of drought on food security.

• Climate Shocks and Resilience: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

  Published on November 18, 2021
  Research Paper #2. In this paper we examine the relationship between climate shock and household consumption and then assess how household resilience influences this relationship.