Five years ago, with international funding, several international agricultural research centers
set out to explore the potential to improve the micronutrient quality of some staple food …

Can commonly-eaten food staple crops be developed that fortify their seeds with essential
minerals and vitamins? Can farmers be induced to grow such varieties? If so, would this …

Household food security is an important measure of well-being. Although it may not
encapsulate all dimensions of poverty, the inability of households to obtain access to …

Participation in commercial agriculture holds considerable potential for unlocking suitable
opportunity sets necessary for providing better incomes and sustainable livelihoods for small …

Women's years of school enrollment and health, measured by longevity, have increased by
a greater amount than men's in this century in most countries. Private and social returns to …

The wide range of calorie-income elasticities in the literature results, in large part, from the
particular calorie and income variables used for estimation. Elasticities across four …

We assess the effects of a major land policy change on farm size and agricultural
productivity using a quantitative model and micro-level data. We study the 1988 land reform …

The article examines the impact of nutritional status on agricultural wage rates in a southern
Philippine province. It discusses the link between an individual's work productivity and …

Cross-section estimates of income elasticities for food staples in the aggregate based on
quantity information from household food expenditure surveys are often in the 0.3–0.6 …

The success of development policy depends on the ability to successfully anticipate the
response of individuals to changing incentives. Often, however, actual responses differ from …