Cross-Country Workshop for Impact Evaluations in Agriculture and Community Driven Development

J-PAL and UC Berkeley’s Center for Effective Global Action are excited to launch the Digital Agricultural Innovations and Services Initiative's (DAISI) Regional Scholars program. As part of the Fall 2022 Request for Proposals, we offer research funding to eligible resident sub-Saharan...

Mobile phone-based marketplaces are designed to enhance smallholder farmers' ability to access buyers directly (creating “market linkages”). Can such a digital platform benefit smallholder farmer producers, by helping them sell their goods at  better prices, and help consumers by improving the...

Agriculture for Development - Revisited took stock of the state of affairs in using agriculture for development three years after the release of the World Development Report (2008) on the same subject.  In the end, the revisit stresses the need for three categories of initiatives to turn...