Agriculture and development

Team

Alain DE JANVRY
Professor, University of California Berkeley
Senior Fellow, FERDI
Vianney DEQUIEDT
Professor of Economics, Vice-President of the University of Clermont Auvergne. School of Economics.
Georges MAVROTAS
Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Visiting Professor, Institute of Development Policy and Management, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Senior Fellow, FERDI
Elisabeth SADOULET
Professor, UC Berkeley
Senior Fellow, FERDI.
Alexandros SARRIS
Professor, University of Athens
Senior Fellow, FERDI

Agriculture and development

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Training
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Publications
19
Events
4
Blogs

FERDI's work examines the importance of agriculture for the development of countries, and the means to develop family farms.

In collaboration with Alain de Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet and Alexandros Sarris, FERDI's works concern:

Methods of creating and adopting technological innovations to produce new agricultural plant varieties which are more resistant to climate change and shocks
Impact of, and methods of, setting up agricultural value chains for the development of family farms
Study of models for financing and insuring against natural disasters
Impact of the volatile international agricultural commodity prices on food security.

Results and Impact

The book published by FERDI Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance: Issues and Results (Clarke D., de Janvry A., Sadoulet E., Skoufias E. (2015) Ferdi, 105 p.) has been posted on the platform https://www.preventionweb.net/risk/disaster-risk

Publication in 2017 of the book Learning for adopting: Technology adoption in developing country agriculture (by Janvry A., Macours K., Sadoulet, E. (2017), FERDI, 120 p.)

Publication in 2016 of the book Commodity market instability and asymmetries in developing countries: Development impacts and policies, (Sarris A. (2016), FERDI, 92 p.)

Training

Publications
All publications

Transforming developing country agriculture: Removing adoption constraints and promoting inclusive value chain development
By Alain DE JANVRY, Elisabeth SADOULETFERDI Working paper P253, September
September 03, 2019
- Agriculture
- Value chains
Inducing demand for information in social networks to promote technology adoption: An alternative approach to extension
By Manzoor DAR, Alain DE JANVRY, Kyle EMERICK, Erin KELLEY, Elisabeth SADOULETVOX
May 19, 2019
Credit and Land Contracting: A Test of the Theory of Sharecropping
By Alain DE JANVRY, Das NARAYAN, Elisabeth SADOULETAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 101(4), pp. 1098-1114.
March 26, 2019
Agricultural Value Chain Development and Smallholder Competitiveness
By Alain DE JANVRY, Elisabeth SADOULETFERDI Policy Brief B188
February 14, 2019
- Agriculture
Index Insurance for Developing Country Agriculture: A Reassessment
By Michael R. CARTER, Alain DE JANVRY, Elisabeth SADOULET, Alexandros SARRISAnnual Review of Resource Economics, Vol. 9, pp. 421-438.
October 30, 2017
- Agriculture
- Risk
Climate change mitigation and agricultural development models: Primary commodity exports or local consumption production?
By Alassane DRABOEcological Economics, vol. 137, pp.110–125
July 01, 2017
Learning for adopting: Technology adoption in developing country agriculture
By Alain DE JANVRY, Karen MACOURS, Elisabeth SADOULETOuvrage, 120 p.
January 01, 2017
The Agricultural Technology Adoption Puzzle: What Can We Learn From Field Experiments?
By Manzoor DAR, Alain DE JANVRY, Kyle EMERICK, Elisabeth SADOULETFERDI Working paper P178
December 05, 2016
Financial Needs and Tools for Agricultural Development and Transformation Pertinent to Low-Income and Low–Middle-Income Countries
By Alexandros SARRISchap.5 in George Mergos and Marina Papanastasiou (eds), Food Security and sustainability: Investment and financing along agro-food chains, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 101-120
December 01, 2016
Extreme volatility in agricultural commodity markets and implications for food security
By Georges DOTSIS, Alexandros SARRIS, Athanasios TRIANTAFYLLOUchap.8 in George Mergos and Marina Papanastasiou (eds), Food Security and sustainability: Investment and financing along agro-food chains, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 161-174.
December 01, 2016
Learning versus status quo bias and the role of social capital in technology adoption: The case of cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire.
By Francesco CORDARO, Alain DESDOIGTSFERDI Policy Brief B160
September 08, 2016
Optimizing social learning about agricultural technology: Experiments in India and Bangladesh
By Manzoor DAR, Alain DE JANVRY, Kyle EMERICK, Elisabeth SADOULETFERDI Policy Biref B158
September 06, 2016
Signals, Similarity and Seeds: Social Learning in the Presence of Imperfect Information and Heterogeneity.
By Emilia TJERNSTROMFERDI Policy Brief B157
September 05, 2016
Learning-by-doing and learning-from-others: evidence from agronomical trials in Kenya
By Rachid LAAJAJ, Karen MACOURSFERDI Policy Brief B156
September 04, 2016
Review of Theories of Learning for Adopting
By Elisabeth SADOULETFERDI Working paper P163
September 01, 2016

Events
All events

Blogs

Matthieu Lougarre « Plus que la vanilline synthétique, c’est la législation sur l’étiquetage des produits qui est problématique »
June 20, 2019
A Madagascar, quel avenir pour la vanille ? L’or noir en péril
June 20, 2019
Inducing demand for information in social networks to promote technology adoption: An alternative approach to extension
voxeu.org
May 19, 2019
Quality doesn't speak for itself: Evidence from the Senegalese onion market
voxdev.org
February 27, 2018