European Union (EU) retailers are setting global benchmarks for the production of fresh food, and are asking their suppliers for produce to be certified according to food safety and quality standards. Compliance to these standards for developing countries small-scale producers entail costly...

How does the distribution of power within the household affect the nutrition of its members? In 1998, the largest social program in rural Mexico (PROGRESA) designed a random experiment for the purpose of evaluation. Exploiting the experimental nature of the data, I estimate calorie demand...

Three hundred smallholders near Malang in East Java were surveyed of whom 150 wereparticipating in a hybrid seed contract with Pioneer Hybrid International Inc, an AmericanMNC that has been contracting in the area since 1986. The objectives of the study were todetermine whether the contract...