Farmers' access to seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides are an important driver of yields for all major food crops. How can Myanmar protect its food security and the welfare of rural households during COVID-19? Learn more here. Source: IFPRI Myanmar – The Myanmar Strategy Support Program
Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 on Myanmar’s agricultural input retailers – June 2020
Agricultural input retailers play a key role in Myanmar’s agri-food system by supplying farmers with fertilizer, seed, pesticides, and other inputs necessary for successful harvests. In their research, Joseph Goeb, Duncan Boughton, Mywish K. Maredia, A... Source: IFPRI Myanmar – The Myanmar Strategy Support Program
Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 on Myanmar’s agricultural input retailers
Agricultural input retailers play a key role in Myanmar’s agri-food system by supplying farmers with fertilizer, seed, pesticides, and other inputs necessary for successful harvests. Because farm-level input use is an important driver of yields for all... Source: IFPRI Myanmar – The Myanmar Strategy Support Program
Measurement Errors in Agricultural Data and their Implications on Marginal Returns to Modern Agricultural Inputs
New journal article by Kibrom A. Abay. Abstract: The low uptake of modern agricultural technologies in sub‐Saharan African countries has encouraged researchers to revisit the returns to (or profitability of) these agricultural inputs. A related strand of literature is exploring the allocative efficiency of these factors of production in African agriculture. However, all these studies […] Source: IFPRI Ethiopia: Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
