International Food Policy Research Institute

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of FFE on the achievement test scores of students who did not receive benefits was investigated. But the authors found evidence for a negative impact on non-beneficiary students through peer effects rather than through classroom crowding effects.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the strengths and weaknesses of the rural non-farm economy in China and India highlights the potentials and challenges of growth in the sector, and argues that the observed patterns in rural nonfarm development are the results of institutional differences between the two countries, especially in their political systems, ownership structure and credit institutions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the role of institutional farm credit on farm income and farm household consumption expenditures and found that formal credit does indeed play a critical role in increasing both net farm incomes and per capita monthly household expenditures of Indian farm families.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used panel data from households and individuals in urban Kenya to show that shopping in supermarkets significantly increases body mass index (BMI) and also analyzed impact pathways, concluding that the retail environment affects people's food choices and nutrition.

TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of contract farming for exports of vegetables from Madagascar, strong spillover effects of these trade opportunities on land use are found to exist, suggesting that there is greater labor absorption on existing land and the diffusion of this type of technology at a larger scale throughout Madagascar would be expected to substantially decrease incentives to deforest by increasing wages and to boost productivity of existing lands relative to newly deforested ones.