Papers & Reports
- Christopher B. Barrett, Mesfin Bezuneh, Daniel C. Clay and Thomas Reardon,
"Heterogeneous
Constraints, Incentives and Income Diversification Strategies in Rural Africa,"
Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture, forthcoming.
- Christopher B. Barrett, "Rural
Poverty Dynamics: Development Policy Implications," Agricultural
Economics, forthcoming.
- Christopher B. Barrett, "Poverty Traps and Natural Resources Management,"
in Richard T. Wright, Environmental Science, Ninth Edition (Upper Saddle
River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005).
- Frank Place, Christopher B. Barrett, H. Ade Freeman, Joshua J. Ramisch
and Bernard Vanlauwe, "Prospects for integrated soil fertility management
using organic and inorganic inputs: evidence from smallholder African agricultural
systems," Food Policy, vol. 8, no. 4 (August 2003): pp. 365-378.
- Christopher B. Barrett , Christine M. Moser, Oloro V. McHugh and Joeli
Barison, "Better Technology, Better Plots or Better Farmers? Identifying
Changes In Productivity And Risk Among Malagasy Rice Farmers," American
Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 86, no.4 (November 2004): pp. 869-888
(lead article).
- Christine M. Moser, Christopher B. Barrett and Bart Minten, "Missed
Opportunities and Missing Markets: Spatio-temporal Arbitrage of Rice in
Madagascar," August 2004.
- Marc Bellemare and Christopher B. Barrett, "An Ordered Tobit Model
of Market Participation: Evidence from Kenya and Ethiopia," June 2004.
- Andrew G. Mude, Christopher B. Barrett, John G. McPeak and Cheryl Doss,
"Educational Investments in a Dual Economy," September 2004 revision.
- Christopher B. Barrett, "Mixing Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
of Analyzing Poverty Dynamics," March 2004.
- Alice N. Pell, David M. Mbugua, Louis V. Verchot, Christopher B. Barrett,
Lawrence E. Blume, Javier G. Gamara, James M. Kinyangi, C. Johannes Lehmann,
Agnes O. Odenyo, Solomon O. Ngoze, Bernard N. Okumu, Max J. Pfeffer, Paswel
P. Marenya, Susan J. Riha and Justine Wangila, "The Interplay Between
Smallholder Farmers and Fragile Tropical Agroecosystems in the Kenyan Highlands,"
February 2004.
- Christopher B. Barrett and Brent M. Swallow, "Fractal Poverty Traps,"
September 2003, under revision for resubmission to World Development in
September 2004.
- Christine Moser and Christopher B. Barrett, "The Complex Dynamics
of Smallholder Technology Adoption: The Case of SRI in Madagascar,"
September 2004 revision.
- Marc F. Bellemare and Christopher B. Barrett, "An Asset Risk Model
of Reverse Tenancy," December 2003 revision.
- "Explaining High Variability in Within Country Outcomes: Three Essays
Using Spatially Explicit Data from Madagascar," 2004 Cornell AEM dissertation;
by Christine M. Moser.
- Welfare
Dynamics in Rural Kenya and Madagascar
- September 2004
- by Christopher B. Barrett, Paswel Phiri Marenya, John McPeak, Bart
Minten, Festus Murithi, Willis Oluoch-Kosura, Frank Place, Jean Claude
Randrianarisoa, Jhon Rasambainarivo and Justine Wangila, September 2004.
- Poverty
Traps and Safety Nets
- December 2003 revision
- by Christopher Barrett and John McPeak
- Prepared for "Poverty, Inequality and Development: A Conference
in Honor of Erik Thorbecke," October 10-11, 2003, at Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY, USA.
-
Dynamic Poverty Traps and Rural Livelihoods
- December 2003 revision
- by Christopher Barrett and Brent M. Swallow, in Frank Ellis
and H. Ade Freeman, editors, Rural Livelihoods and Poverty Reduction
Policies (London: Routledge), forthcoming.
-
Rural Poverty Dynamics
- September 2003 revision
- by Christopher B. Barrett
- Prepared for invited presentation to the 25th International Conference
of Agricultural Economists Durban, South Africa
-
Fractal Poverty Traps
- September 2003 revision
- by Christopher B. Barrett and Brent Swallow
-
Smallholder Identities and Social Networks: The Challenge of Improving Productivity
and Welfare
- July 2003
- by Christopher B. Barrett
- Educational
Investments in a Spatially Varied Economy
- July 2003
- by Andrew G. Mude, Christopher B. Barrett, John G. McPeak and Cheryl
R. Doss
- An
Asset Risk Theory of Share Tenancy
- June 2003
- by Marc F. Bellemare and Christopher B. Barrett
- The
Complex Dynamics of Smallholder Technology Adoption: The Case of SRI in
Madagascar
- June 2003
- by Christine M. Moser and Christopher B. Barrett
- Better
Technology, Better Plots or Better Farmers? Identifying Changes in Productivity
and Risk Among Malagasy Rice Farmers
- June 2003 revision
- Prepared for presentation at the annual meetings of the American Agricultural
Economics Association, July 27-30, 2003, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
- by Christopher B. Barrett, Christine M. Moser, Joeli Barison and Oloro
V. McHugh
-
Technology and Policy Impacts on Economic Performance, Nutrient Flows and
Soil Erosion at Watershed Level: The Case of Ginchi in Ethiopia
- May 2003
- by B. N. Okumu, N. Russell, M.A. Jabbar, D. Colman, M A Mohamed Saleem
and J. Pender
-
Chronic Poverty in Rural Western Kenya: its identification and implications
for agricultural development
- April 2003
- by Frank Place, Paul Hebinck, and Mary Omosa
- The
Impact of High Yielding Varieties of Wheat on Economic Performance, Nutrient
Flows and Soil Erosion in the Ethiopian Highlands: The Case of the Ginchi
Watershed
- December 2002
- Paper Presented at "The Workshop on the Green Revolution in Asia
and its Transferability to Africa," in Tokyo, Japan (December 8
- 10, 2002)
- by Ben Okumu
-
Social Identity and Manipulative Household Transfers Among East African
Pastoralists
- October 2002 revision
- by Marieke Huysentruyt, Christopher B. Barrett, and John G. McPeak
-
Prospects for integrated soil fertility management using organic and inorganic
inputs: evidence from smallholder African agriculture systems
- Forthcoming in Food Policy
- by Frank Place, Christopher B. Barrett, H. Ade Freeman, Joshua J.
Ramisch, Bernard Vanlauwe,