. Here, we analyze effects of supermarkets on child nutrition with panel data from medium-sized towns in Kenya. Instrumental …-scores. The effects on height are larger than the effects on weight. These are welcome findings, because child stunting continues … to be a major nutrition problem in developing countries that is declining more slowly than child underweight …

in Sub-Saharan Africa. Food insecurity remains a major issue among African smallholders. Mobile phones could potentially … facilitate access to food markets and thus improve food security and nutrition, but research on such types of effects remains … rounds of household panel data covering the period between 2009 and 2015. During this period, mobile phone ownership in the …

production. Four waves of panel data from the Tigray Region of Northern Ethiopia, covering the period 2001-2010, are used to … estimate a series of panel data regressions. A dose-response model is used to measure how the intensity of FFW participation …

evaluation also noted unexpected results on some outcomes, specifically, child nutrition, maternal health, and labor market … case of nutrition, there appears to be no differences in knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) or supply-side factors … on stunting may come from factors other than KAP or supply side factors. Finally, perverse employment outcomes appear to …

also affect other dimensions of social welfare, such as gender equality and nutrition. Such broader social welfare effects … have hardly been analyzed up till now. Here, we address this research gap, using panel data from smallholder farm … households in Uganda. Regression results show that mobile phones have significantly contributed to household income gains and …

On-farm production diversity of smallholder farmers can improve the nutrition security of the household. The objective …

better nutrition for these farmers. The association between production and dietary diversity is complex, and this complexity … demands rigorous empirical analyses and more attention to gendered aspects of intra-household decision-making. We employ panel … data analyses of 363 Ethiopian smallholders surveyed in 2014 and 2016 to test for this phenomenon, and to explore the …

Uganda. Evidence on transformation and differential paths followed in doing so in these countries is often limited due to a … and higher milk yields - seemingly driven by rapid changes in local demand (Ethiopia and Uganda) and export markets … (Uganda). However, while small farmers were included in that transformation in Uganda, they were not in Ethiopia. This was …