My first published haiku! With accompanying paper on additive impact of videos to teach agricultural practices, with Katya Vasilaky🇺🇦 Kentaro Toyama and Digital Green sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Deeply saddened by the loss of Prof. Carlo, a giant in the field of cooperation and social economy. My heartfelt condolences to his family and my colleagues Euricse. RIP, dear professor.
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A visit from Mandefro Nigussie from Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Institute and Rikin Gandhi from Digital Green to IFPRI, with Gashaw T. Abate & MinAh Kim. When Mandefro & Dawit Alemu were @InstituteEIAR 20 yrs ago, they taught me the difference btwn Katumani OPV & BH660 hybrid maize, and more!

📳 Digital innovations can transform smallholder agriculture in Kenya, a focal point for testing various digital solutions in sub-Saharan Africa.

Gashaw T. Abate & team review these innovations to glean insights for scaling digital solutions. Read here:
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'Timely, customized, and digital agricultural extension services delivered directly to farmers’ phones, provide a low-cost way to help farmers become more resilient to the changes in weather, pests, soil salinity, and that accompany climate change.'
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One for the measurement nerds: Review of measurement error in agriculture data out in Annual Reviews

Kibrom Abay Gashaw T. Abate Hope Michelson Chris Barrett & co

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Our recent review at the ARRE is out. We synthesize findings on the nature and sources of measurement error (ME) focusing on alternative approaches for detecting, obviating or correcting for alternative sources of ME.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.114… Chris Barrett Gashaw T. Abate Hope Michelson

Now out (pre-proof) w/ Kibrom Abay Talip Kilic 🇹🇷🇺🇦 Heather Moylan, John Ilukor & Vundru Wilbert Drazi . We report on an experiment to study non-classical measurement error (NCME) in plot size among farmers in Malawi. 1/5 doi.org/10.1016/j.jdev…

📱Can phone #surveys be used in standard #poverty measurement?

In our new blog post, Alan de Brauw Kalle Hirvonen & Gashaw T. Abate are sharing evidence from #Ethiopia showing phone surveys could produce skewed results in some areas: ow.ly/lLYa50OKHBZ

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Just out in the Journal of the AAEA work w Gashaw T. Abate , Kalle Hirvonen , and Abdulazize Wolle on a video intervention to nudge fruit and veg consumption in Addis Ababa. We find small positive effects on consumption 4 months after viewing- read more here doi.org/10.1002/jaa2.51

Researchers conducted a phone survey experiment in urban #Ethiopia to measure household poverty and consumption. 📱

Check out the #OpenAccess 📝 by IFPRI's Gashaw T. Abate Alan de Brauw Kalle Hirvonen & Abdulazize Wolle: doi.org/10.1016/j.jdev…

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New IFPRI discussion paper on how farmers often expect too much from ag technologies (overlooking need for complementary inputs) leading to disappointment and subsequent dis-adoption ifpri.org/publication/mi…

Gashaw T. Abate et al. Kibrom Abay Jordan Chamberlin Martin Paul Jr. Tabe-Ojong IFPRI review the literature on transformative potential of digital innovations for #African ag markets. Research has been limited to small-scale experiments that often need to scale up. 11/15

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Congrats to Beliyou Haile, Dawit Mekonnen, Jowel Choufani, ClaudiaRingler & Elizabeth Bryan for having their paper highlighted in World Scientific's Water and Economics Policy Journal Editors' Choice for 2022! 🎉👏

Check out the 📝 here: doi.org/10.1142/S23826…

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Gashaw T. Abate et al. Kibrom Abay Jordan Chamberlin Martin Paul Jr. Tabe-Ojong IFPRI review the literature on transformative potential of digital innovations for #African agricultural markets. Research has been limited to small-scale experiments that often fail to scale up.
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Bernard et al. show that without support to maintain soil fertility, access to modern seed varieties increases primary forest clearance in DR Congo.

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.Gashaw T. Abate & co* are at it again:

A critical review of 'digital & agriculture tools' in Africa out in Food Policy ~ super helpful primer on the topic!

* Kibrom Abay Jordan Chamberlin Martin Paul Jr. Tabe-Ojong IFPRI IFPRI_Egypt

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Our paper on digital tools and agricultural market transformation in Africa!