Ana R. Rios

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assessed the vulnerability of Tanzania's population to poverty due to changes in climate variability between the late 20th century and early this century and found that the greatest predicted increase in poverty was equal to 880,000 people, while in the 21st century, the highest possible poverty increase was equivalent to 1.17 million people.

TL;DR: This paper used data from a Payments for Environmental Services (PES) project in Nicaragua to examine the extent to which poorer households that are eligible to participate are in fact able to do so, an issue over which there has been considerable concern.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the efficiency of smallholder coffee farms in Vietnam and found that small farms were less efficient than large farms. Inefficiencies observed on small farms appear to be related, in part, to the scale of investments in irrigation infrastructure.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used data from a PES project being implemented in Quindio, Colombia, to examine the extent to which poorer households that are eligible to participate are in fact able to do so.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors build upon international trade literature to analyze the direction of causality between market participation and productivity and find that households with higher productivity tend to participate in agricultural markets regardless of market access factors.