Research

JOURNAL ARTICLES

1. Nnaji, A., Alia, D.Y., Raina, A., and Anderson, C.L. (2025). An harmonized food consumption dataset by food category and acquisition source for Sub-Saharan African countries submitted to Scientific Data

2. Sanders, H., Alia, D.Y., Lara-Arevalo, J., Beal, T.., & Drewnowski, A. (2025). Adapting the EAT-Lancet Diet for West Africa: Protein Quality and Micronutrient Inadequacies Improved Through Nutrient Dense Foods submitted to Frontiers in Nutrition

3. Wang, J., Alia, D.Y., Gangopadhyay, P., & Anderson, C.L. (2025). Gendered Language and Technology Adoption by Small-scale Producers. Manuscript submitted to the Applied Economics Perspectives and Policy

4. Tomes, A., Gholami, S., Alia, D.Y., Hennessy, C., Xu, D., Bitz, C., . & Anderson, C. L. (2025). Assessing the utility of machine learning for predicting food sufficiency: a case study in Malawi. Data & Policy, 7, e52.

5. Alia, D.Y., Anderson, C. L., de Milliano, M., Meysonnat, A., Hennessy, C., & de Hoop, T. (2025). Informal savings groups and food security during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from Nigeria. Data & Policy, 7, e46.

6. List, K., Agamile, P., Alia, D.Y., Cherutich, P., Danforth, K., Kinuthia, J., Means, A. R., Mukui, I., Ngumbau, N., Su, Y., Wagner, A. D., Weiner, B. J., and Masyuko, S. (2024). Reimagining policy implementation science in a global context: a theoretical discussion. Frontiers in Health Services, 4, 1292688.

7. Wineman, A., Alia, D.Y., & Anderson, C. L. (2020). Definitions of “rural” and “urban” and understandings of economic transformation: Evidence from Tanzania. Journal of rural studies, 79, 254-268.

8. Kusunose, Y., Thériault, V., & Alia, D.Y. (2020). Can customary land tenure facilitate agricultural productivity growth? Evidence from Burkina Faso. Land Economics, 96(3), 441-455.

9. Wineman, A., Njagi, T., Anderson, C. L., Reynolds, T. W., Alia, D.Y., Wainaina, P., Njue, E., Biscaye, P., & Ayieko, M. W. (2020). A case of mistaken identity? Measuring rates of improved seed adoption in Tanzania using DNA fingerprinting. Journal of Agricultural Economics, 71(3), 719-741.

10. Alia, D.Y., Diagne, A., Adegbola, P., & Kinkingninhoun, F. (2018). Distributional Impact of Agricultural Technology Adoption on Rice Farmers' Expenditure: The Case of Nerica in Benin. Journal of African Development, 20(2): 91-103.

11. Alia, D.Y., Ponty, N., & Tchwaket, I. K. (2017). Altruism or exchange: what motives inter-household transfers in Burkina Faso?. International Journal of Social Economics, 44(12), 2257-2270.

12. Alia, D.Y., Floquet, A., & Adjovi, E. (2017). Heterogeneous welfare effects of cotton pricing on households in Benin. African Development Review, 29(2): 107-121.

13. Alia, D.Y. (2017). Progress toward the Sustainable Development Goal on poverty: Assessing the effect of income growth on the exit time out of poverty in Benin. Sustainable Development, 25(6): 495-503.

14. Smale, M., Kusunose, Y., Mathenge, M. K., & Alia, D.Y. (2016). Destination of distraction? Querying the linkage between off -farm work and food crop investments in Kenya. Journal of African Economies, 25(3): 388-41.

15. Alia, D.Y., Jossa-Jouable Alia, K. A., & Fiamohe, E. R. (2016). On poverty and persistence of poverty in Benin. Journal of Economic Studies, 43(4): 661-676.

16. Fiamohe, R., Alia, D.Y., Bamba, I., Diagne, A., & Amovin-Assagba, E. (2015). Transmission of rice prices from Thailand into West African markets: The case of Benin, Mali, and Senegal. Journal of African Business, 16(1-2): 128-143.

17. Alia, D.Y. (2015). Geographical orientation of export in the manufacturing sector in sub-Sahara Africa. Global Economy Journal, 15(3): 337-351.

18. Fiamohe, R., Seck, P. A., Alia, D.Y., & Diagne, A. (2013). Price transmission analysis using threshold models: An application to local rice markets in Benin and Mali. Food Security, 5(3): 427-438.

BOOK CHAPTERS

1. Long, J., Alia, D.Y., Nnaji, A., Tomes, A., Agamile, P., Shah, S., and Anderson, L. (2024). Food Security and Democratic Backsliding in Sub-Saharan Africa, forthcoming in the volume “Challenges to democracy: Political polarization, sustaining multi-ethnic democracies, economic inequality, democratic discontent, and populism” edited by Fulbright Canada

2. Dedehouanou, F. &Alia, D.Y. (2023). Dynamics of off-farm self-employment in West African Sahel. In The Job Ladder, edited by Fields, G.S. Gindling, T.H., Sen, Kunal, Danquah, Michael, and Schotte, Simone. Oxford University Press, 2023.

3. Woomer, P. L., Roobroeck, D., & Alia, D.Y. (2022). Blending Climate Action and Rural Development in Africa's Sahel. Chapter (revised and resubmit) in Sustainable Rural Development - Theory, Approaches, Strategies, Cases and Recent Advances, Intech Open Publishing, 2022.

4. Diagne, A., Alia, D.Y., Wopereiss, M., Saito, K.,  & Nakelse, T. (2013). Impact of Rice Research on Income and Poverty in Africa:  An Ex-ante Analysis.  Chapter in Realizing Africa’s Rice Promise.  Wopereis, M.C.S., Johnson, D.E., Ahmadi, N., Tollens, E., & Jalloh, A. (Eds.), CABI Publishing, 2013.

5. Diagne, A., Alia, D.Y., Amovin-Assagba, E., Wopereis, M. C., Saito, K., & Nakelse, T. (2013). Farmer perceptions of biophysical constraints in rice production in sub-Saharan Africa and potential impact of research. Chapter in Realizing Africa’s Rice Promise. Wopereis, M.C.S., Johnson, D.E., Ahmadi, N., Tollens, E., & Jalloh, A. (Eds.), CABI Publishing, 2013. 

NON PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH

1. Alia, D.Y., Toole, R., Trindade, F., and Anderson, C.L. (2025). Who is a small-scale producer? A proposed operational definition. EPAR Technical Report #396b.

2. Nnaji, A., Alia, D.Y., Raina, A., and Anderson, C.L. (2024). Patterns of household food consumption across food groups and sources in sub-Saharan African countries. EPAR blog post published on November 25, 2024. 

3. Agamile, P., Alia, D.Y., and Anderson, C.L. (2024). Where do African farmers obtain their seed from? Insights from Ethiopia and Nigeria. EPAR blog post published on October 18, 2024.

4.  Figone, K., Porton, A., Kiel, S., Hariri, B., Kaminsky, M., Alia, D.Y., Trindade, F. and Anderson, L. (2021). Tracking the investment landscape: a summary of three international financial institution's (IFIs) investments in sub-Saharan Africa. EPAR Technical Report #411a.

5. Reynolds T., Alia, D.Y., Biscaye P, Coomes D., Wood S. and Anderson C.L (2020). Tracking agricultural transformation with rural household typologies: Findings from Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Tanzania. EPAR TECHNICAL REPORT #353

CURRENT WORKING PAPERS

1. Sanders, H., Alia, D.Y., and Drewnowski, A. (2025). Nutritional Adequacy of the Planetary Health Diet Improved by More Nutrient-Rich Foods: Analyses of the FAO Food Composition Tables for Western Africa. Manuscript completed and in preparation for submission at Nature Food

2. Alia, D.Y., Agamile, P., McFeeley, M., and Anderson, L. (2023). Assessing the Benefits of Multi-biofortified Rice in Nigeria and Ghana using the Disability-Adjusted Life Years Framework. Manuscript completed and in preparation for submission at Global Food Security

3. Durand-Morat, A., Bairagi. S., Trindade, F., Alia, D.Y., Grandbouche, J., Wood, S., and Anderson, C.L. (2023). Modeling smallholder rice farmers risk and resiliency: Evidence from Nigeria

4. Alia, D.Y., Development assistance and factor markets in Nigeria: An application of the test of agricultural household  separability ” with A. Wineman and C.L. Anderson

5. Alia, D.Y., T. Reynolds, Anderson, C.L. (2022). “Who is a smallholder farmer? Features and implications of alternative definitions with application to house- hold survey data” 

6. Adeyeye, O., Ogunleye, A. S., Wineman, A., Reed, H., Alia, D.Y., Akinola, A. A., ... & Ogundele, O. (2019). Does Women’s empowerment influence agricultural productivity? Evidence from rural households in Northern Nigeria.

7. Ogunleye, A. S., Akinola, A. A., Bamire, A. S., Alia, D.Y., Adeyeye, O., Abdoulaye, T., & Reed, H. (2019). A Cross Sectional Analysis of Farm-Size Productivity Relationship in African Agriculture Evidence from Maize Farming Households in Nigeria.

8. Alia, D.Y., Kusunose Y., and Theriault V. (2018). “Spillover Effects of Fertilizer Subsidies on the Adoption of Modern Inputs: Panel Data Evidence from Burkina Faso”

9. Alia, D.Y., Kusunose Y., and Theriault V. (2018). Land rental, farm investment, productivity, and efficiency in Burkina Faso” with Y. Kusunose and V.  Theriault.

10. Alia, D.Y., Zheng Y., Reed M. (2017). Trade effects of food regulations and standards: Assessing the impact of SPS measures on market structure.

11. Alia, D.Y. and Nakelse T. (2017). Cash crops, food security, nutrition, and health in developing countries: evidence from the impacts of cotton expansion in Burkina Faso.

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WORKS IN PROGRESS

1. “Another Hidden Cost of Climate Change: Heat exposure and surveys response bias in developing countries" with Trindade, F.  and Tomes, A. 

2. “Women Decision Making and Food Security Resilience in Nigeria and Lessons for Mitigating the Impacts of Covid-19" with Meysonnat, A., Trindade, F.., Hsu, R., Agamile, P., and Anderson, C.L. 

3.   “Spatial urban development and transformation of African agriculture: A view from space” with Boone, C. 

4. “Banking on women? Development Assistance projects and women’s employment and economic empowerment in sub-Saharan Africa”

5. “Does output price risk dis-incentivize the adoption of agricultural technologies: Evidence from Nigeria”

PERMANENT WORKING PAPERS

1. “Foreign aid effectiveness in African economies: evidence from a threshold panel” with Anago, R.

2. “Evaluation of the effects of economic policies on informal sector performance and poverty in Cameroon: a Computable General Equilibrium model analysis” with Ndjana, W.,  Nghogue, E., and Ngonthe, R. 

3. “Institutional change, industrialization and structural change out of agriculture”

4. “Rural media, agricultural technology adoption and productivity: evidence from small rice farmers in Burkina Faso” with Nakelse, T. and Diagne, A.

5.  “Assessing the performance of food co-ops in the US” with Katchova, A.  and Woods, T.