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5. Livestock Market Organization and Price Distributions in Northern Kenya

scholarly article published January 2006

A flexible parametric GARCH model with an application to exchange rates

A planetary health innovation for disease, food and water challenges in Africa

scientific article published on 12 July 2023

Agricultural Index Insurance for Development

article

Agricultural Markets in Developing Countries

Agricultural Markets in Developing Countries

Agricultural Technology, Productivity, and Poverty in Madagascar

scholarly article by Bart Minten & Christopher B. Barrett published May 2008 in World Development

Agricultural factor markets in Sub-Saharan Africa: An updated view with formal tests for market failure

scientific article published on February 2017

Agrifood Industry Transformation and Small Farmers in Developing Countries

Agroindustrialization, globalization, and international development: the environmental implications

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An analysis of iodine deficiency disorder and eradication strategies in the high atlas mountains of morocco

scholarly article by Elizabeth A. Oldham et al published November 1998 in Ecology of Food and Nutrition

Analyzing drivers of fish biomass and biodiversity within community fish refuges in Cambodia

scientific article published in 2019

Are Integrated Conservation-Development Projects (ICDPs) Sustainable? On the conservation of large mammals in sub-Saharan Africa

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Are There Gender Differences in Demand for Index-Based Livestock Insurance?

Articulating the effect of food systems innovation on the Sustainable Development Goals

scientific article published on 08 December 2020

Assessing the Impact of U.S. Food Assistance Delivery Policies on Child Mortality in Northern Kenya

scientific article

Assessing the Value of Climate Forecast Information for Pastoralists: Evidence from Southern Ethiopia and Northern Kenya

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Asset Thresholds and Social Protection: A Reply to Dercon

Asset Thresholds and Social Protection: A ‘Think-Piece’

article by Michael R. Carter & Christopher B. Barrett published May 2007 in IDS Bulletin

Bayesian Herders: Updating of Rainfall Beliefs in Response to External Forecasts

Building a Global Food Systems Typology: A New Tool for Reducing Complexity in Food Systems Analysis

scientific article published in 2021

Bundling innovations to transform agri-food systems

scientific article

COVID-19 pandemic lessons for agri-food systems innovation

scholarly article by Alexander Mathys published in 2021

Can Food-for-Work Programmes Reduce Vulnerability?

Cash transfers and index insurance: A comparative impact analysis from northern Kenya

scholarly article by Nathaniel D. Jensen et al published November 2017 in Journal of Development Economics

Cash, food, or vouchers? An application of the Market Information and Food Insecurity Response Analysis Framework in urban and rural Kenya

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Challenging Orthodoxies: Understanding Poverty in Pastoral Areas of East Africa

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Chapter 40 Food security and food assistance programs

Climate Forecasting for Pastoralists?

Climate change exacerbates the environmental impacts of agriculture

scientific article published on 6 September 2024

Cohort Description of the Madagascar Health and Environmental Research-Antongil (MAHERY-Antongil) Study in Madagascar

scientific article published on 19 July 2019

Community-Based Risk Management Arrangements: A Review

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Complexity in the spatial utilization of rangelands: Pastoral mobility in the Horn of Africa

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Conceptualizing hunger in contemporary African policymaking: From technical to community-based approaches

Context-Dependent Biodiversity Conservation Management Regimes: Theory and Simulation

Decomposing Intergenerational Income Elasticity: The Gender-differentiated Contribution of Capital Transmission in Rural Philippines

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Decomposing Producer Price Risk: A New Policy Analysis Tool With An Application to Northern Kenyan Livestock Markets

Decomposing Producer Price Risk: An Analysis of Livestock Markets in Northern Kenya

scholarly article by Christopher B. Barrett & Winnie Luseno published 2001 in SSRN Electronic Journal

Decomposing producer price risk: a policy analysis tool with an application to northern Kenyan livestock markets

Designing Index-Based Livestock Insurance for Managing Asset Risk in Northern Kenya

scholarly article by Sommarat Chantarat et al published 2 May 2012 in Journal of Risk and Insurance

Differential Nutritional Responses across Various Income Sources Among East African Pastoralists: Intrahousehold Effects, Missing Markets and Mental Accounting

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Differential Risk Exposure and Stochastic Poverty Traps Among East African Pastoralists

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Distinguishing between Equilibrium and Integration in Spatial Price Analysis

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Do Community Members Share Development Priorities? Results of a Ranking Exercise in East African Rangelands

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Do Free Goods Stick to Poor Households? Experimental Evidence on Insecticide Treated Bednets

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Do Short-Term Observed Income Changes Overstate Structural Economic Mobility?*

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Does Diversification Improve Livelihoods? Pastoral Households in Xinjiang, China

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Does Food Aid Stabilize Food Availability?

Does Index Insurance Crowd In or Crowd Out Informal Risk Sharing? Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

scientific article published in 2018

Does Resource Commercialization Induce Local Conservation? A Cautionary Tale From Southwestern Morocco

scholarly article by TRAVIS LYBBERT et al published May 2004 in Society and Natural Resources

Does food aid Really have disincentive effects? New evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

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Does the Nonfarm Economy Offer Pathways for Upward Mobility? Evidence from a Panel Data Study in Ethiopia

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Dynamic Field Experiments in Development Economics: Risk Valuation in Morocco, Kenya, and Peru

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Economic and geographic drivers of wildlife consumption in rural Africa

scientific article (publication date: 23 August 2011)

Economic instruments for nature conservation

Effects of climate variability on freshwater fisheries in Cambodia's rice field fisheries: a longitudinal cohort study

scientific article published in 2018

Emerging human infectious diseases and the links to global food production

scientific article published on 11 June 2019

Empirical forecasting of slow-onset disasters for improved emergency response: An application to Kenya’s arid north

article

Employment Dynamics in the Rural Nonfarm Sector in Ethiopia: Do the Poor Have Time on Their Side?

scholarly article by Sosina Bezu & Christopher B. Barrett published September 2012 in Journal of Development Studies

Estimating risk preferences in the presence of bifurcated wealth dynamics: can we identify static risk aversion amidst dynamic risk responses?

article

Experimental Evidence on the Drivers of Index-Based Livestock Insurance Demand in Southern Ethiopia

article

Fairness, stewardship and sustainable development

article

Food Aid After Fifty Years

Food Aid's Intended and Unintended Consequences

Food Insecurity

scholarly article

Food Policy In Crisis Management

Food Security and Sociopolitical Stability in Sub-Saharan Africa

article

Food aid allocation policies: coordination and responsiveness to recipient country needs

Food marketing liberalization and trader entry: Evidence from Madagascar

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Food or Consequences: Food Security and Its Implications for Global Sociopolitical Stability

Food security as resilience: reconciling definition and measurement

Forest value: More than commercial-Response

scientific article published on 22 December 2016

Fractal poverty traps

From remotely‐sensed solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence to ecosystem structure, function, and service: Part II—Harnessing data

scientific article published in 2023

Global Oil Prices and Local Food Prices: Evidence from East Africa

article

Got milk? The impact of Heifer International’s livestock donation programs in Rwanda on nutritional outcomes

scholarly article by Rosemary Rawlins et al published February 2014 in Food Policy

Harold Alderman, Ugo Gentilini and Ruslan Yemtsov: The 1.5 Billion People Question: Food, Vouchers, or Cash Transfers?

Heterogeneous Wealth Dynamics: On the Roles of Risk and Ability ⬇️

Heteroscedastic price forecasting for food security management in developing countries

Household-level determinants of adoption of improved natural resources management practices among smallholder farmers in western Kenya

scholarly article by Paswel P. Marenya & Christopher B. Barrett published August 2007 in Food Policy

How Accurate is Food-for-Work Self-Targeting in the Presence of Imperfect Factor Markets? Evidence from Ethiopia

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How basis risk and spatiotemporal adverse selection influence demand for index insurance: Evidence from northern Kenya

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Human health and pesticide use in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Hunger and Food Insecurity

Identity, Interest and Information Search in a Dynamic Rural Economy

Immiserized growth in liberalized agriculture

Improving Food Aid: What Reforms Would Yield the Highest Payoff?

Improving humanitarian response to slow‐onset disasters using famine‐indexed weather derivatives

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Income diversification, poverty traps and policy shocks in Côte d’Ivoire and Kenya

scholarly article by Christopher B. Barrett et al published August 2001 in Food Policy

Incomplete Credit Markets and Commodity Marketing Behaviour

article by Emma C. Stephens & Christopher B. Barrett published 28 September 2010 in Journal of Agricultural Economics

Index Insurance Quality and Basis Risk: Evidence from Northern Kenya

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Index insurance for pro-poor conservation of hornbills in Thailand

scientific article

Institutional Arrangements for Rural Poverty Reduction and Resource Conservation

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Interpersonal, Intertemporal and Spatial Variation in Risk Perceptions: Evidence from East Africa

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Introduction: Farming the Garden of Eden

Is bioprospecting a viable strategy for conserving tropical ecosystems?

scientific article published in 2000

Is late really better than never? The farmer welfare effects of pineapple adoption in Ghana

Liberalization and food price distributions: ARCH-M evidence from Madagascar

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Macroeconomic Shocks, Human Capital and Productive Efficiency: Evidence from West African Rice Farmers

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Madagascar: An Empirical Test of the Market Relaxation-State Compression Hypothesis

article published in 1995

Market Prices and Food Aid Local and Regional Procurement and Distribution: A Multi-Country Analysis

article

Market-based conservation and local benefits: the case of argan oil in Morocco

scientific article (publication date: April 2002)

Markets, Social Norms, and Governments in the Service of Environmentally Sustainable Economic Development: The Pluralistic Stewardship Approach

scholarly article

Measurement Error Mechanisms Matter: Agricultural Intensification with Farmer Misperceptions and Misreporting ⬇️

scientific article published in July 2019

Measuring Food Insecurity

scientific article published in Science

Meeting the global food security challenge: Obstacles and opportunities ahead

Modeling Ecological Constraints on Tropical Forest Management: Comment

Multivariate random forest prediction of poverty and malnutrition prevalence

scientific article

Not Necessarily In The Same Boat: Heterogeneous Risk Assessment Among East African Pastoralists

On The Choice and Impacts of Innovative International Food Assistance Instruments

On biodiversity conservation and poverty traps

scientific article

On design-based empirical research and its interpretation and ethics in sustainability science

scientific article published on 01 July 2021

On price risk and the inverse farm size-productivity relationship

On the Structural Transformation of Rural Africa

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Opinion: Measuring development resilience in the world's poorest countries

scientific article

Overseas Research II

Participatory Risk Mapping For Targeting Research And Assistance: With An Example From East African Pastoralists

scientific article published in 1999

Participatory Risk Mapping for Targeting Research and Assistance: With an Example from East African Pastoralists

Persistent poverty and informal credit

Policy Reforms and Sustainable Agricultural Intensification in Africa

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Policy, technology, and management strategies for achieving sustainable agricultural intensification

Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests ⬇️

scientific article

Post-green revolution food systems and the triple burden of malnutrition

scholarly article by Miguel I. Gómez et al published October 2013 in Food Policy

Poverty Traps and Index-Based Risk Transfer Products

Poverty Traps and Safety Nets

Poverty Traps and the Social Protection Paradox ⬇️

scientific article published in October 2016

Poverty, disease, and the ecology of complex systems

scientific article (publication date: April 2014)

Predicting poverty and malnutrition for targeting, mapping, monitoring, and early warning

scientific article

Productivity in Malagasy rice systems: wealth-differentiated constraints and priorities

Prospects for integrated soil fertility management using organic and inorganic inputs: evidence from smallholder African agricultural systems

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Rational incompatibility with international product standards

Recipients’ Satisfaction with Locally Procured Food Aid Rations: Comparative Evidence from a Three Country Matched Survey

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Reconsidering Conventional Explanations of the Inverse Productivity–Size Relationship

Research Principles for Developing Country Food Value Chains

scientific article published in Science

Review: Food loss and waste in Sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published on July 2017

Revisiting the Links between Governance and Biodiversity Loss

scholarly article by Christopher B. Barrett et al published August 2007 in Conservation Biology

Risk Management and Social Visibility in Ghana

scholarly article by Jacqueline Vanderpuye-Orgle & Christopher B. Barrett published April 2009 in African Development Review

Risk Responses to Dynamic Asset Thresholds

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Risk, Knowledge and Health in Africa: Introduction to the Symposium

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Risk-taking behavior in the presence of nonconvex asset dynamics

scientific article published in January 2011

Rural poverty dynamics: development policy implications

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Shadow wages, allocative inefficiency, and labor supply in smallholder agriculture

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Smallholder Participation in Contract Farming: Comparative Evidence from Five Countries

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Smallholder market participation: Concepts and evidence from eastern and southern Africa

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Smallholder technical efficiency controlling for environmental production conditions

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Social Learning, Social Influence, and Projection Bias: A Caution on Inferences Based on Proxy Reporting of Peer Behavior

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Social groups and economic inequality

Social network capital, economic mobility and poverty traps

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Socioenvironmental threats to pastoral livelihoods: risk perceptions in the Altay and Tianshan Mountains of Xinjiang, China

scientific article

Soil quality and fertilizer use rates among smallholder farmers in western Kenya

scholarly article by Paswel P. Marenya & Christopher B. Barrett published September 2009 in Agricultural Economics

Spatial Price Adjustment with and without Trade*

Spatial integration at multiple scales: rice markets in Madagascar

scholarly article by Christine Moser et al published May 2009 in Agricultural Economics

State-conditional Fertilizer Yield Response on Western Kenyan Farms

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State-conditioned soil investment in rural Uganda

scholarly article by Leah E.M. Bevis et al published June 2017 in Research in Economics

Stochastic Wealth Dynamics and Risk Management among a Poor Population

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Stripe Review of Social Sciences in the CGIAR

Subdiscipline-specific journal rankings: whither Applied Economics?

article published in 2000

THE DYNAMIC EFFECTS OF U.S. FOOD AID

article published in 1999

Targeting Maps: An Asset-Based Approach to Geographic Targeting

Ten striking facts about agricultural input use in Sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published on February 2017

The Economics of Poverty Traps

The Economics of Poverty Traps and Persistent Poverty: Empirical and Policy Implications

The Impacts of Household Land Use and Socio Economic Factors on the Soil Fertility of Smallholder Farms in the Highlands of Kenya

scholarly article by Solomon Ngoze et al published 2008 in SSRN Electronic Journal

The One Body of Christian Environmentalism

article by Raymond E. Grizzle & Christopher B. Barrett published June 1998 in Zygon

The Rise of Supermarkets in Africa, Asia, and Latin America

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The Social Economics of Poverty

The Timeliness and Cost-Effectiveness of the Local and Regional Procurement of Food Aid

The Value of Imperfect ENSO Forecast Information: Discussion

The Welfare Impacts of Commodity Price Volatility: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

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The Welfare Impacts of Commodity Price Volatility: Reply

The complex dynamics of smallholder technology adoption: the case of SRI in Madagascar

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The complex links between governance and biodiversity

scientific article

The disappointing adoption dynamics of a yield-increasing, low external-input technology: the case of SRI in Madagascar

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The economics and nutritional impacts of food assistance policies and programs

The economics of poverty traps and persistent poverty: An asset-based approach

The effects of real exchange rate depreciation on stochastic producer prices in low-income agriculture

The firm‐level effects of European monetary unification

The impact of changing rainfall variability on resource-dependent wealth dynamics

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The intertemporal evolution of agriculture and labor over a rapid structural transformation: Lessons from Vietnam

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

The microeconomics of the developmental paradox: on the political economy of food price policy

The processes of structural transformation of African agriculture and rural spaces

The self-reinforcing feedback between low soil fertility and chronic poverty

article by Christopher B. Barrett & Leah E. M. Bevis published 23 November 2015 in Nature Geoscience

The social dimensions of microeconomic behavior in low-income communities: Introduction to a symposium

article published in 2007

The structural transformation of African agriculture and rural spaces: introduction to a special section†

The “Discouraged Worker Effect” in Public Works Programs: Evidence from the MGNREGA in India

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Toward a theory of resilience for international development applications

scientific article

Towards a global food aid compact

Tradeoffs or Synergies? Assessing Local and Regional Food Aid Procurement through Case Studies in Burkina Faso and Guatemala

scholarly article by Aurélie P. Harou et al published September 2013 in World Development

Understanding Uneven Agricultural Liberalisation in Madagascar

scholarly article by Christopher B. Barrett published September 1994 in Journal of Modern African Studies

Understanding and reducing persistent poverty in Africa: Introduction to a special issue

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Urban bias in price risk: The geography of food price distributions in low‐income economies

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Using Weather Index Insurance to Improve Drought Response for Famine Prevention

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Variable Returns to Fertiliser Use and the Geography of Poverty: Experimental and Simulation Evidence from Malawi

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Welfare Impacts of Index Insurance in the Presence of a Poverty Trap

Welfare dynamics in rural Kenya and Madagascar

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Well-Being Dynamics and Poverty Traps

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Whose Fast and Whose Feast? Intrahousehold Asymmetries in Dietary Diversity Response Among East African Pastoralists

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Wildlife Harvest in Integrated Conservation and Development Projects: Linking Harvest to Household Demand, Agricultural Production, and Environmental Shocks in the Serengeti

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“Modeling the impact of natural resource-based poverty traps on food security in Kenya: The Crops, Livestock and Soils in Smallholder Economic Systems (CLASSES) model”

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