Consumption smoothing and temporal price arbitrage are the two main economic motives for grain storage in semi-subsistence economies. Nonetheless, little has been documented on the determinants of households' grain storage behavior. Using a rich panel data from maize producing households in...

While many of the studies to date have focused on the production end of the value chain-i.e., ways to help farmers grow more food, there is limited evidence regarding the impacts of climate shocks on the other stages of agricultural value chains. Recognizing that food security is not just an...

This paper examines the effect of climate-induced shocks on multidimensional poverty in Ethiopia using data from the Ethiopian Socioeconomic Survey (ESS) collected under the Living Standard Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) of the World Bank. The empirical strategy...