For most poor countries of today, using agriculture for development is widely recognized as
a promising strategy. Yet, in these countries, investment in agriculture has mostly been …

We discuss recent trends in agricultural productivity in Africa and highlight how
technological progress in agriculture has stagnated on the continent. We briefly review the …

Recent literature suggests that agricultural value chains are changing rapidly and places an
increasing focus on the importance of actors and activities taking place in the “midstream” of …

This chapter provides a review of the role of field experiments (FEs) in answering research
questions in agriculture that ultimately let us better understand how policy can improve …

Interference across competing firms in RCTs can be informative about market structure. An
experiment that subsidizes a random subset of traders who buy cocoa from farmers in Sierra …

We study the potential for asset collateralization to expand access to credit in rural Kenya.
Increasing the share of a loan for a durable agricultural asset that is collateralized by the …

Warrantage is an innovative model of rural finance with the potential to overcome credit,
crop storage, and behavioral constraints through a localized inventory credit system. Using a …

Interlinked transactions in which output prices are determined jointly with the terms of credit
are an important feature of many business relationships. In these instances, understanding …

Seasonal commodity price fluctuations can potentially offer farmers arbitrage opportunities
to increase their income. However, smallholder farmers in most of sub‐Saharan Africa often …

This paper presents an experimental approach to measure competition in agricultural
markets, based on the random allocation of subsidies to competing traders. We compare …