Research
Publications
Peer-reviewed articles
“An Alternative Approach to Measuring the Welfare Impacts of Input Subsidies: Evidence from Malawi”. Journal of Agricultural Economics 73(1): 112-138.
“Farmers' Preferences for Crop Variety Traits: Lessons for On-Farm Conservation and Technology Adoption”. Ecological Economics 69 (2010): 2394-2401 (with Mahmud Yesuf, Fredrik Carlsson, and Edilegnaw Wale).
“Addressing overweight and obesity in LMICs in the realm of rural development and food systems - Global evidence base versus practice in five country examples”. IFAD Research Series 91. Rome: IFAD (with Marion, H., ten Hove, H., Bakker, S., Njoro, J., Bianchi, I., Mendiratta, V., 2023).
Book chapters
“Ending hunger sustainably by 2025: What will it take?” in “New Directions in the Fight against Hunger and Malnutrition: A Festschrift in Honor of Per Pinstrup-Andersen”, Oxford University Press. 2015 (with Shenggen Fan and Tolulope Olofinbiyi).
“Crop Production in Ethiopia: regional patterns and trends ” in “Food and agriculture in Ethiopia” in Paul A. Dorosh and Shahid Rashid (eds), University of Pennsylvania Press. 2012 (with Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse and Paul A. Dorosh)
“Economic analysis of Ethiopian farmers' preferences for crop variety attributes: a choice experiment approach.” 2011. In E. Wale, A. Drucker, E. Derek, M. Glave and K. Zander (eds), “The Economics of Managing Crop Diversity On-farm: Case studies from the Genetic Resources Policy Initiative” Eathscan publishing ISBN 9781849712224. (with Kerstin Zander).
Working Papers
“The Role of Crop Diversification in Household Resilience to Shocks. The Case of Malawi”. 2020 (with Habtamu Fuje). Revise and resubmit, IFAD Research Series.
“Does Inclusion of Large Farms Reverse the Inverse Farm-Size Productivity Relationship? Evidence from Ethiopia”. 2020 (with Klaus Deininger, and Daniel Ali).
“Trends and Determinants of Cereal Productivity: Econometric Analysis of CSA’s Agricultural Sample Survey Data” ESSP-II Discussion paper 35, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 2010 (with Gerawork Getachew and Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse).
“Cereal Production and Technical Change in Ethiopia”. ESSP-II Discussion paper 10, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 2009 (with Alejandro Nin-Pratt, Bingxin Yu, Jose Funes).
“Sources of Inefficiency and Growth in Agricultural Output in Subsistence Agriculture: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis” ESSP-II discussion paper 38, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 2010 (with Fantu Nisrane, Guush Berhane, Gerawork Getachew, Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse, and John Hoddinott).
Works in Progress
“The Effect of Geoengineering the Climate on Global Economic Production” (with Jay Coggins, Ian Luby, Maxwell Mkondiwa, and Ibrahim Keita).
“Decomposing the Impacts of Investments in Small-scale Fishery Production: The case of a Coastal Community Development Project in Indonesia” (with Romina Cavatassi, Athur Mabiso, and Tisorn Songsermsawas, and Paul Winters)
“The Welfare Implications of Investments in Climate Resilient Agriculture: Evidence from Bolivia” (with Romina Cavatassi).
“Understanding the Implications of Supporting Sustainable Agricultural Production in Malawi: A Difference-in-Differences Approach” (with Romina Cavatassi and Maggio Giuseppe).