This study estimates the impact of agricultural research, specifically improved maize seeds varieties, on agricultural productivity and welfare in Uganda using a three-wave panel survey. First, it looks at the determinants of technology adoption are examined in a dynamic setting that allows for...

Based on cross-country datasets, we find that (i) development of the rural agricultural sector is the most poverty reducing; (ii) rural non-agricultural sector also is poverty reducing in some cases, but its magnitude is much smaller than that associated with the rural agricultural sector; and...

Using household data from Northern Zambia, this article looks at HIV/AIDS impacts on different aspects of people's access to food. The findings draw particular attention to the variances in vulnerability among households burdened by illness and orphans that are headed by men, women and the...

The objective of this paper is twofold: it aims at evaluating the quality of the consumption module in the ACDIS data, addressing measurement error and missing information. Estimates of household consumption are in fact sensitive to both issues (Ardington, Lam et al. 2006). Secondly, it aims at...

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has committed to a poverty reduction target of 80 million people moved out of poverty between 2010 and 2015 through IFAD-supported programmes. The IFAD9 impact evaluation initiative was launched to quantify the target and demonstrate...

Based on cross-country panel datasets, we find that (i) an increase in population share in agriculture is associated with poverty reduction once the longer-term poverty change or the dynamic is taken into account; (ii) rural non-agricultural sector also is poverty reducing in some cases; and...

Based on cross-country panel datasets, we find that (i) an increase in population share in agriculture is associated with poverty reduction once the longer-term poverty change or dynamic is taken into account; (ii) the rural non-agricultural sector also is poverty-reducing in some cases; and...