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Climate change has compounded the uncertainties inherent in agriculture. Farmers have to make decisions faced with increasingly fluctuating weather, leaving them vulnerable. Access to climate-related…

| EfD Discussion Paper | South Africa

This paper analyzed and mapped the impact of built environment (BE) on socio-ecological services along Dar es Salaam metropolitan coastline. In the period of 1995-2016, burgeoning population…

| Peer Reviewed | Tanzania

The Tanzanian component of the VALOR Project (2014-2018) studied quality factors, traits and conditions with potential to increase value of agricultural products in Tanzania through Geographical…

| Policy Brief | Tanzania

This paper examines the effect of farmers’ liability on demand for credit with and without insurance. We test predictions of a theoretical model in a lab in the field experiment with coffee farmers in…

| Peer Reviewed | Central America

Open access post-harvest grazing is widespread in mixed crop-livestock systems. This discourages conservation agriculture, which depends on keeping the soil surface covered with crop residues. One way…

| EfD Discussion Paper | Ethiopia

We analyze the impact of a new storage technology and training on post-harvest losses among small-scale maize farmers in rural Tanzania. The analysis is based on data collected by means of a…

| EfD Discussion Paper | Tanzania

We pair a county-level panel of annual agricultural production with daily weather outcomes to measure the effects of temperature fluctuations on total agricultural output value of farming, forestry…

| EfD Discussion Paper | China

The productivity of certain crops such as coffee ( Coffea arabica L.), maize ( Zea mays) and beans ( Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is expected to decline in Central America because of climate change. This…

| Peer Reviewed | Central America

Climate change will affect the distribution, productivity and profitability of coffee production in Central America, negatively impacting national economies and small farmer livelihoods. There is a…

| Peer Reviewed | Central America

The purpose of this study is to provide empirical evidence on the impact of a climate-smart agricultural practice (row planting) on the welfare of rural households. Data collected from 260 households…

| Peer Reviewed | Ethiopia