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Nutrition-sensitive agricultural diversification continues to receive interest among developing country stakeholders as a viable option for achieving ...
There is an urgent need to anticipate and mitigate the threat posed by COVID-19 to Myanmar’s agricultural sector and to rural households that depend...
When designing and evaluating policies and projects for women’s empowerment, appropriate indicators are needed. This paper reports on the lessons le...
Empirical evidence from Ghana
Tenure security is believed to be critical in spurring agricultural investment and productivity. Yet what improves or impedes tenure security is still...
Tajikistan’s economy is highly dependent on personal remittances. Lack of formal well-paid jobs and of private business opportunities locally to ear...
Land provides the basis for food production and is an indispensable input for economic livelihoods in rural areas. Landownership is strongly associate...
In places with few casual or salaried employment opportunities, investments in farm or non-farm assets may offer the main pathway to increased incomes...
The regional context in which rural livelihoods in Myanmar are embedded varies widely, in terms of physical geography, climate and agroecology, local ...
Globally, nearly half of all workers in rural areas work in agriculture (International Labour Organization 2020). Women are heavily involved in agricu...
This study assesses the welfare impacts of COVID-19 on households in Myanmar by combining recent high-frequency telephone survey evidence for two spec...
At a time when donors and governments are increasing efforts to mainstream gender in agriculture, it is critical to revisit long-standing wisdom about...
This report describes the baseline data collected from 1,835 men and women respondents in 998 households in two irrigation sites in the central dry zo...
A survival analysis of contract farming participation in northern Ghana
Contract farming (CF) is attractive as a possible private-sector-led strategy for improving smallholder farmers’ welfare. Yet many CF schemes suffer...
This paper uses evidence from Southeast Asia to challenge current interpretations of quantitative data on individual, formal asset ownership in relati...
Many governments imposed stringent lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic as a public health measure to suppress the spread of the disease. With consu...
In this paper we empirically analyse the impact of mothers’ non-farm entrepreneurship on child secondary school enrollment in rural Ghana. We use na...
The focus in this paper is on two relatively large maize-based contract farming (CF) schemes with fixed input packages (Masara and Akate) and a number...
In February-March 2023, 2,000 households were interviewed about their socio-economic conditions in twelve districts of Khatlon Province which constitu...
Gendered access to land in Ghana
Improving women’s access to land is high on the agricultural policy agenda of both governmental and non-governmental agencies. Yet, the determinants...
Amid extreme uncertainty during the COVID-19 pandemic, economic policymakers have struggled to respond to rapidly changing circumstances with appropri...
Aligning context, empirics, and policy
For decades, policymakers and development practitioners have debated benefits and threats of property rights formalization and private versus customar...
Subjective well-being measures are increasingly applied in quantitative economic analyses intended to elicit non-monetary wellbeing of individuals. Ho...
This report presents findings related to changes in household agricultural production between 2015 and 2023 in the twelve districts of Khatlon Provinc...
Myanmar had one of the lowest confirmed COVID-19 caseloads in the world in mid-2020 and was one of the few developing countries not projected to go in...
This working paper synthesizes findings from four large household and community surveys in Myanmar, each covering a major agro-ecological zone, to eva...
Women’s and youth’s roles in agriculture vary across contexts and over time. Limited quantitative information is available on this topic from Sout...
On 27 April, the Myanmar Government published the COVID-19 Economic Relief Plan (CERP) which aims to mitigate COVID-19’s impact on the macroeconomic...
This policy note provides evidence of the immediate impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on farming communities in Myanmar’s Central Dry Zone using baseli...
Southeast Asia’s agricultural landscape is known for rice production in lowland areas, diverse upland areas, and the cultivation of ‘boom crops’...
Traditional family owned retail shops are the backbone of Myanmar’s consumer market. As the final node in the grocery supply chain, they sell all ty...
Myanmar has been fortunate in thus far having one of the lowest caseloads of COVID-19 per population globally, with under 400 confirmed cases as of ea...
The persistent and worsening effects of the COVID-19 crisis on rural household incomes are alarming. The onset of the second wave of infections and mi...
It is feared that the COVID-19 pandemic will lead to widespread increases in global poverty and food insecurity and that these negative impacts will c...
This policy note presents results from five rounds of a telephone survey with food vendors conducted in different rural and urban zones of the country...
This is the second policy note in a series presenting results from rounds of a telephone survey of a sample of retail food shop owners or managers loc...