Journal Articles

Risk Management  


Tsiboe, F. & Turner, D. (2023). The crop insurance demand response to premium subsidies: Evidence from U.S. Agriculture. Food Policy, 119.


Tsiboe, F., & Turner, D. (2023). Econometric identification of crop insurance participation. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 1-22. 


Baldwin, K., Williams, B., Tsiboe, F., Effland, A., Turner, D., Pratt, B., Jones, J., Toossi, S. and Hodges, L., (2023). US Agricultural Policy Review, 2021. Economic Information Bulletin No. (EIB-254) 27 pp


Tsiboe, F. & Tack, J. (2022). Utilizing Topographic and Soil Features to Improve Rating for Farm‐Level Insurance Products. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 104 (1): 52-69.


Turner, D. & Tsiboe, F. (2022). The crop insurance demand response to the Wildfire and Hurricane Indemnity Program Plus. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 44 (3), 1273-1292.

Production   

Asravor, J., Tsiboe, F., Asravor, R., Wiredu, A., & Manfred, Z. (2023). Technology and managerial performance of farm operators by age in Ghana. Journal of Productivity Analysis.


Ansah, IGK, Appiah-Tumasi, M., & Tsiboe, F., Asravor, R., Wiredu, A., & Manfred, Z. (2023). Starchy staples production shortfalls in Ghana: Technical inefficiency effects outweigh technological differences across ecologies. PLOS ONE, 18(4): e0284780.


Adaku, A.A., Tsiboe, F., and Clottey, J. (2022). Taking Stock of Gender Gaps in Crop Production Technology Adoption and Technical Efficiency in Ghana. Agrekon, 62(1) 31-48


Tsiboe, F., Asravor, J., Owusu, V., & Mensah-Bonsu, A. (2022). Production technology, efficiency, and productivity of cereal farms: Prospects for enhancing farm performance in Ghana. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 1-31. 

Tsiboe, F. (2021) Chronic Sources of Low Cocoa Production in Ghana: New Insights from Meta-Analysis of Old Survey Data. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review.

Tsiboe, F., Aseete, P., & Djokoto, J. G. (2021). Spatiotemporal Comparison of Dry Beans and Groundnut Production Technology and Inefficiency in Ghana. Review of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 24(1), 76–87.

Tsiboe, F., Asravor, J., & Osei, E. (2019). Vegetable Production Technical Efficiency and Technology Gaps in Ghana. African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 14 (4), 255-278.

Tsiboe, F., & Nalley, L. L. (2016). Effect of Biotic and Abiotic Stress on Household Cocoa Yields in Ghana. African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 11(3). 

Price and market analysis

Tsiboe, F., Tack, J., Coble, K., Harri, A., & Cooper, J. (2023). Simulating corn futures market reaction and prices under weekly yield forecasts. Agricultural Finance Review, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print.. 


Peterson-Wilhelm, B., Nalley, L., Durand-Morat, A., Shew, A., Tsiboe, F. and Mulimbi, W. (2021). Quality Determinates Of Rice Price In Open Bag Markets In Sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies. 13(3), 361-378

Tsiboe, F., Dixon, B. L., and Wailes, E. J. (2016). Spatial Dynamics and Determinants of Liberian Rice Market Integration. African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 11(3). 

Mensah-Bonsu, A., and Tsiboe, F. (2012). Analysis Of The Constraints And Their Effects On The Marketing Of Cassava By Farmers In TheAjumaku-Enyan Essiam District Of Ghana. Ghana Journal of Agricultural Science, 45, 95–108.

Livelihood diversification   

Tsiboe, F., Zereyesus, Y. A., & Osei, E. Non-farm work, food poverty, and nutrient availability in northern Ghana. Journal of Rural Studies. Forthcoming 2016. [Data]

Zereyesus, Y. A., Embaye, W. T., Tsiboe, F., & Amanor-Boadu, V. (2016). Implications of Non-Farm Work to Vulnerability to Food Poverty-Recent Evidence From Northern Ghana. World Development. 

Poverty and Welfare   

Tsiboe, F., Armah, R., Zereyesus, Y. A., & Annim, S (2023). Food Poverty Assessment in Ghana: A Closer Look at the Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of Poverty. Scientific African, 19, e01518 

Gender Studies

Tsiboe, F., Zereyesus, Y. A., Osei, E., & Popp, J. S. (2018). Health Effects of Women Empowerment in Agriculture in Northern Ghana: Differing Patterns by Body Mass Index Categories. African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. 13(1), 31–43 

Tsiboe, F., Zereyesus, Y. A., Popp, J. S., & Osei, E. (2018). The Effect of Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture on Household Nutrition and Food Poverty in Northern Ghana. Social Indicators Research, 138(1), 89–108. 

Impact evaluation    

Tsiboe, F., Egyir, I. S., & Anaman, G (2021). Effect of Fertilizer Subsidy on Household Level Cereal Production in Ghana. Scientific African, 13. e00916  

Tsiboe, F., Luckstead, J., Dixon, B. L., Nalley, L. L., & Popp, J. S. (2018). Analyzing Labor Heterogeneity In Ghanaian Cocoa Production And Its Implications For Separability In Household Decisions And Policy Assessment. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 1–26.

Tsiboe, F., Luckstead, J., Nalley, L. L., Popp, J. S., & Dixon, B. L. (2018). Market effects of farmer field schools in Sub-Saharan Africa: The case for cocoa. Review of Development Economics, 22(4), e160–e184. 

Tsiboe, F., Dixon, B. L., Nalley, L. L., Popp, J. S., and Luckstead, J. (2016). Estimating the impact of farmer field schools in sub-Saharan Africa: the case of cocoa. Agricultural Economics, 47(3), 329–339.

Musliu, A., E. Bajrami, F. Tsiboe, and J.S. Popp. 2017. Evaluating the impact of the Value Added Tax reform on raw milk collection in Kosovo. New Medit: A Mediterranean Journal of Economics, Agriculture and Environment 16(1),29–35.

Plant genetics economics

Dlamini, T., Nalley, L. L., Tsiboe, F., Barkley, A., & Shew, A. M. (2017).The Economic Impact of the South African Agricultural Research Council’s Dry Beans Breeding Program. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 49(2), 232–250

Nalley, L., Tack, J., Durand, A., Thoma, G., Tsiboe, F., Shew, A., & Barkley, A. (2017). The Production, Consumption, and Environmental Impacts of Rice Hybridization in the United States. Agronomy Journal, 109(1), 193–203.

Nalley, L., Tsiboe, F., Durand-Morat, A., Shew, A., & Thoma, G. (2016). Economic and Environmental Impact of Rice BlastPathogen (Magnaporthe oryzae) Alleviation in the United States. PLOS ONE, 11(12), e0167295.

Tsiboe, F., Nalley, L., Durand-Morat, A., Thoma, G., & Shew, A. (2017). The Economic and Environmental Benefits of Sheath BlightResistance in Rice. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 42(2), 215–235

Agricultural Sustainability   

Nalley, L., Massey, J., Durand-Morat, A., Shew, A., Parajuli, R., & Tsiboe, F. (2022). Comparative Economic and Environmental Assessments of Furrow- and Flood-Irrigated Rice Production Systems. Agricultural Water Management, 274. 

Tsiboe, F., Nalley, L. L., Dixon, B. L., Brye, K. R., Tack, J. B., Barkley, A., & Shew, A. (2018). Estimating Spatial Differences in Methane Emissions to Identify Sustainable Rice Sources. Agronomy Journal, 110(2).

Tsiboe, F., Popp, J. S., & Brye, K. R. (2017). Profitabilityof Alternative Management Practices in a Wheat–Soybean, Double-Crop Production System in Arkansas. Agronomy Journal, 109(5). 

Consumer studies

Tsiboe, F., Nalley, L. L., Dixon, B. L., Danforth, D. M., Delwaide, A.-C., & Nayga, R. (2017). Ghanaian Consumers’ Attitudes toward Cisgenic Rice: Are all Genetically Modified Rice the Same? Ghana Journal of Development Studies, 14(1), 1–18. doi:10.4314/gjds.v14i1.1

Shew, A. M., Danforth, D. M., Nalley, L. L., Nayga, R. M., Tsiboe, F., & Dixon, B. L. (2017). New innovations in agricultural biotech: Consumer acceptance of topical RNAi in rice production. Food Control, 81,189-195

Kovacs, K., Lee, J., Henry, C., Krutz, L, Nayga, R., & Tsiboe, F. (forthcoming). Factors Influencing the Willingness to Pay for On-Farm Water Infrastructure. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation.