Agriculture

Blog
J-PAL and CEGA launch the Digital Agricultural Innovations and Services Initiative
Through generous support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, J-PAL and UC Berkeley’s Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) launched the new Digital Agricultural Innovations and Services Initiative (DAISI) to support innovative, policy-relevant research on the availability, quality, and...

Blog
Affiliate Spotlight: Tavneet Suri on the importance of locally-grounded research
A weak internet connection did not stop J-PAL Africa Scientific Director Tavneet Suri from getting her point across in our interview: Good research is done with an ear to the ground and a connection to the community. Calling in from her home country of Kenya, Tavneet emphasized how important it is...

Policy insight
Incentivizing higher-quality agricultural outputs
Despite making investments in technologies and practices to improve the quality of their products, smallholder farmers in low- and middle-income countries do not often receive higher prices for their higher-quality agricultural goods. Disorganized markets with many intermediaries may make quality...

Case study
Phone-based technology for agricultural information delivery
In this Evidence to Policy case study, see how Precision Agriculture for Development leveraged findings from two randomized evaluations to create and diffuse a new mobile-phone based model for agricultural extension.

Evaluation
Building Market Linkages for Smallholder Farmers through a Digital Marketplace in Uganda
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation in Uganda to test the impact of a mobile phone-based marketplace for agricultural commodities on local market prices, entry of traders, farmer revenue, and trader profits. Overall, the platform increased trade flows and decreased price variation across...

Blog
Building systems to improve and reward higher-quality agricultural products
Learn more about our new review of strategies designed to improve the quality of agricultural goods produced and sold at market.