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Impact Evaluation of Cash, Food Vouchers, and Food Transfers among Colombian Refugees and Poor Ecuadorians in Carchi and Sucumbios: Baseline Survey by International Food Policy Research Institute, Centro de Estudios de Pobalcion y Desarrollo Social, World Food Programme

“…The objectives of the program were three-fold: 1) to improve food consumption by facilitating access to more nutritious foods, 2) to increase the role of women in household decision-making related to food consumption, and 3) to reduce tensions between Colombian refugees and host Ecuadorian populations. …”
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Impact Evaluation of Cash, Food Vouchers, and Food Transfers among Colombian Refugees and Poor Ecuadorians in Carchi and Sucumbios: Endline Survey by International Food Policy Research Institute, Centro de Estudios de Pobalcion y Desarrollo Social, World Food Programme

“…The objectives of the program were three-fold: 1) to improve food consumption by facilitating access to more nutritious foods, 2) to increase the role of women in household decision-making related to food consumption, and 3) to reduce tensions between Colombian refugees and host Ecuadorian populations. …”
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Agricultural transformation in the savannah: Perspectives from the village by Johnson, Michael E., Houssou, Nazaire, Kolavalli, Shashidhara, Hazell, Peter B. R.

“…What were the key factors driving farmers’ adaptation decisions, including the roles of changes in population density and the availability of additional land for cultivation, improved access to markets, changing market demands, increased competition for labor from the rural nonfarm economy, and higher wages? …”
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Policy support through modeling and evaluation: Methodological challenges and practical solutions by Badiane, Ousmane, Henning, Christian, Krampe, Eva

“…An even greater challenge, however, is for the knowledge and insights generated from economic modeling to find their way into the decision making process. In this context, the present volume contains a selection of tools and methodologies that can help to tackle the complexities of the analysis of policy processes and outcomes under the implementation of the CAADP agenda. …”
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Polygynous family structure and child undernutrition in Africa: Empirical evidence from Nigeria by Amare, Mulubrhan, Mahrt, Kristi, Mavrotas, George, Arndt, Channing

“…This paper investigates the impact of polygyny on anthropometric outcomes recognizing that unobservable household characteristics may simultaneously influence both the polygyny decision and the ability to adequately nourish children. …”
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The promise and challenges of gender data by Buvinic, Mayra, Carey, Eleanor

“…The content of their days do not fit neatly into categories but straddle and blur the boundaries between “productive” and “nonproductive,” “public” and “private,” and “home” and “work,” challenging the conceptual frameworks for measurement that have largely been devised to capture the roles that men have traditionally played in more advanced economies. …”
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Transformation of the Thai broiler industry by Chokesomritpol, Phunjasit, Naranong, Viroj, Kennedy, Adam

“…Focus is particularly placed on the Thai industry’s leader, Charoen Pokphand Group (C.P.), and its business decisions over the years that enabled the company to gain a foothold in the highly competitive international market for chicken meat.…”
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A user’s guide to data from Round 3 of the Pakistan Rural Household Panel Survey (PRHPS) 2014 by International Food Policy Research Institute, Innovative Development Strategies

“…The survey collected information on many topics including sources of income, nature of employment, consumption patterns, time use, assets and savings, loans and credit, education, migration, women’s decision making, economic shocks, transfers in and out, health and nutrition, and participation in social safety nets. …”
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Does linking farmers to markets work? Evidence from the World Food Programme’s Purchase for Progress satellite collection points initiative in Uganda by Kizito, Andrew Muganga, Kato, Edward

“…Using a non-experimental cross-sectional dataset of 471 households, we evaluate the impacts of satellite collection points (SCPs) under the Purchase for Progress (P4P) initiative implemented by the World Food Programme (WFP) on storage decisions and crop income from maize sales among smallholder farmers in Uganda. …”
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Estimating the adoption of modern cultivars in Rajasthan: A descriptive analysis by Varshney, Deepak, Joshi, Pramod Kumar, Roy, Devesh

“…To present cultivar-specific analysis, the authors modeled farmers’ decisions to adopt top cultivars accounting for concerns regarding independence of irrelevant alternative assumption in a multinomial logistics framework.…”
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Economic accounts for agriculture and farm income in Senegal by Fofana, Ismaël, Tankari, Mahamadou Roufahi, Traoré, Fousseini

“…The information from the economic accounts for agriculture offers valuable inputs for decision-support tools such as the geographical information platforms (e-atlas) and social accounting matrixes used in strategic analyses and agricultural policy planning.…”
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Highlights of the IFPRI and WFP partnership: Working together to ensure food and nutrition security by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Our work helped improve the delivery of essential food aid to the most vulnerable in times of crisis, inform decisions to administer food or cash transfers using sound evidence, and strengthen evidence-based policy making by developing information systems and networks for food security. …”
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Microcredit and willingness to pay for environmental quality: Evidence from a randomized-controlled trial of finance for sanitation in rural Cambodia by BenYishay, Ariel, Fraker, Andrew, Guiteras, Raymond, Palloni, Giordano, Shah, Neil Buddy, Shirrell, Sturat, Wang, Paul

“…On methodological grounds, this paper shows that a “decision-focused evaluation” can be integrated into academic analysis to provide insight into questions of general interest.…”
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The role of mycotoxin contamination in nutrition: The aflatoxin story by Ayalew, Amare, Hoffmann, Vivian, Lindahl, Johanna, Ezekiel, Chibundu N.

“…Increasingly, policy and decision makers understand the need to include nutritional aspects into improvements of food systems. …”
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Women's Empowerment in Agricultural Governance (WEAGov) technical workshop: India pilot study by Ragasa, Catherine, Kyle, Jordan, Yasmin, Sabina, Pande, Harshita, Basu, Sampurna, Sharma, Aanshi

“…Gender Equality research initiative Gender Equality (HER+) is a One CGIAR Research Initiative seeking to address the following four dimensions of gender inequality in agrifood systems: o Women’s lack of agency or limited ability to define and act on goals, make decisions that matter to them, and participate in the economy and in public life; o Women’s lack of access to and control over resources; o Social norms that discriminate based on gender; and o Policies and governance that fail to include and benefit women. …”
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Beyond emissions reduction: Climate change mitigation’s path to sustainable development by Gutierrez Zapata, Diana Maria, Vanegas Cubillos, Martha Cristina, Borda, Carlos Andrés, Casallas, Ivon Maritza, Sylvester, Janelle Marie, Castro Nunez, Augusto

“…Understanding and leveraging the co-benefits of climate change mitigation will advance the achievement of the SDGs by attracting finance, building support and informing strategic policy decisions. The proposed framework facilitates the integration of climate change mitigation with the SDGs from a low-emissions food systems perspective. …”
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Statistics from space: a new approach to agricultural production data for Mozambique by Valmonte-Santos, Rowena

“…Since the project aligns closely with CGIAR Initiative on Digital Innovation, which focuses on harnessing digital technologies for better decision-making in food, land, and water systems, the Initiative team actively participates in the project to promote synergies in supporting the crop production information system.…”
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Beyond emissions reduction: Climate change mitigation’s path to sustainable development. by Gutierrez Zapata, Diana Maria, Vanegas Cubillos, Martha Cristina, Borda, Carlos Andres, Casallas, Ivon Maritza, Sylvester, Janelle Marie, Castro Nunez, Augusto

“…Understanding and leveraging the co-benefits of climate change mitigation will advance the achievement of the SDGs by attracting finance, building support and informing strategic policy decisions. The proposed framework facilitates the integration of climate change mitigation with the SDGs from a low-emissions food systems perspective. …”
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Do limitations in land rights transferability influence mobility rates in Ethiopia? by de Brauw, Alan, Mueller, Valerie

“…Furthermore, if migration takes place as part of a household decision making strategy, it can help the source household reduce income risks (Stark 1991, Azam and Gubert 2006), at the very least, and potentially improve the well being of the entire household (de Brauw and Harigaya 2007). …”
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Just energy transition: Challenges and low carbon pathways for Africa by Khennas, Smail, Sokona, Youba

“…However, poor countries and marginalized populations may face disproportionate challenges during this transition if they are excluded from decision-making processes or do not benefit from these new job prospects. …”
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