Documents et rapports

Official Documents- Amendment No. 8 to the Agreement with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for TF071165 (anglais)

Official Documents- Amendment No. 7 to the Agreement with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for TF071165 (anglais)

Official Documents- Amendment No. 6 to the Administration Agreement with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for TF071165 (anglais)

The impact of household food consumption data collection methods on poverty and inequality measures in Niger (anglais)

This paper assesses the impact of three methodologies of food data collection on the welfare distribution, and poverty and inequality measures in Niger. The first methodology is a 7-day recall period...

Milking the data : measuring income from milk production in extensive livestock systems -- experimental evidence from Niger (anglais)

Milk is an important source of cash and nutrients for many households in developing countries. Yet, the understanding of the role of dairy production in livelihoods and nutritional outcomes is hindered...

Does livestock ownership affect animal source foods consumption and child nutritional status ? evidence from rural Uganda (anglais)

In many developing countries, consumption of animal source foods among the poor is still at a level where increasing its share in total caloric intake may have many positive nutritional benefits. This...

Income diversification patterns in rural Sub-Saharan Africa : reassessing the evidence (anglais)

Is Africa's rural economy transforming as its economies grow? This paper uses comparable income aggregates from 41 national household surveys from 22 countries to explore the extent of income diversification...

Agricultural production, dietary diversity, and climate variability (anglais)

Nonseparable household models outline the links between agricultural production and household consumption, yet empirical extensions to investigate the effect of production on dietary diversity and diet...

The nexus between gender, collective action for public goods, and agriculture : evidence from Malawi (anglais)

Across the developing world, public goods exert significant impacts on the local rural economy in general and agricultural productivity and welfare outcomes in particular. Economic and social-cultural...

Decentralized beneficiary targeting in large-scale development programs : insights from the Malawi farm input subsidy program (anglais)

This paper contributes to the long-standing debate on the merits of decentralized beneficiary targeting in the administration of development programs, focusing on the large-scale Malawi Farm Input Subsidy...

Up in smoke ? agricultural commercialization, rising food prices and stunting in Malawi (anglais)

Diversification into high-value cash crops among smallholders has been propagated as a strategy to improve welfare in rural areas. However, the extent to which cash crop production spurs projected gains...

Official Documents- Amendment no.4 to Gates Foundation Grant TF071165 (anglais)

The use of random geographic cluster sampling to survey pastoralists (anglais)

Livestock are an important component of rural livelihoods in developing countries, but data about this source of income and wealth are difficult to collect because of the nomadic and semi-nomadic nature...

Official Documents- Amendment No. 2 to the Bill & Melinda Gates Grant No. TF071165 (anglais)

Weight calculations for panel surveys with sub-sampling and split-off tracking (anglais)

The Living Standards Measurement Study -- Integrated Surveys on Agriculture project collects agricultural and livelihood data in seven countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. In order to maintain representativeness...

Fact or artefact : the impact of measurement errors on the farm size - productivity relationship (anglais)

This paper revisits the role of land measurement error in the inverse farm size and productivity relationship. By making use of data from a nationally representative household survey from Uganda, in which...

Reliability of recall in agricultural data (anglais)

Despite the importance of agriculture to economic development, and a vast accompanying literature on the subject, little research has been done on the quality of the underlying data. Due to survey logistics...

Amendment to the Bill & Melinda Gates Grant TF071165 Conformed (anglais)