selected publications
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article
- Micro-econometric and Micro-Macro Linked Models: Impact of the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) Program of Uganda—Considering Different Levels of Likely Contamination with the Treatment 2018
- Agricultural public spending in Africa is low and inefficient 2017
- Tracking CAADP indicators and processes 2017
- Impacts of CAADP on Africa's Agricultural-Led Development 2016
- Returns to Agricultural Public Spending in Ghana: Cocoa versus Noncocoa Subsector 2016
- Agricultural productivity in Africa: Trends, patterns, and determinants: Synopsis 2016
- Returns to Agricultural Public Spending in Africa South of the Sahara 2015
- Impact of Ghana's Agricultural Mechanization Services Center Program. Agricultural Economics. 46:103-117. 2015
- After the ten percent: Moving agriculture in Ghana 2015
- Sinopse: Despesas públicas na agricultura em Moçambique: Quais os investimentos necessários à evolução tecnológica e o que norteia as decisões de investimento? 2015
- Special Issue: Public investments in and for agriculture 2015
- Identifying Agricultural Expenditures within the Public Financial Accounts and Coding System in Ghana: Is the Ten Percent Government Agriculture Expenditure Overestimated? 2014
- Aid Effectiveness in Ghana: How’s the L’Aquila Food Security Initiative Doing? 2014
- Aid Effectiveness: How is the L’Aquila Food Security Initiative Doing? 2014
- Aid effectiveness: How is the L'Aquila food security initiative doing? 2014
- Exploring Strategic Priorities for Regional Agricultural Research and Development Investments in Southern Africa 2014
- Synopsis: Public expenditures in agriculture in Mozambique: What investments are required for technical change, and what drives investment decisions? 2014
- Revisiting Agricultural Input and Farm Support Subsidies in Africa: The Case of Ghana's Mechanization, Fertilizer, Block Farms, and Marketing Programs 2013
- Do External Grants to District Governments Discourage Own Revenue Generation? A Look at Local Public Finance Dynamics in Ghana. World Development. 40:1054-1067. 2012
- Ghana 2012
- Impact of the National Agricultural Advisory Services (Naads) program of Uganda: Considering Different Levels of Likely Contamination with the Treatment. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 94:386-392. 2012
- Malawi 2012
- Strategies and priorities for African agriculture, Economywide perspectives from country studies 2012
- Uganda 2012
- Returns to spending on agricultural extension: the case of the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) program of Uganda†. Agricultural Economics. 42:249-267. 2011
- Institutional and public expenditure review of Ghana's Ministry of Food and Agriculture 2010
- From "best practice" to "best fit": a framework for designing and analyzing pluralistic agricultural advisory services worldwide. Journal of Agricultural Extension and Education. 15:341-355. 2009
- Setting priorities for public spending for agricultural and rural development in Africa 2009
- Market Institutions and Transaction Costs Influencing Trader Performance in Live Animal Marketing in Rural Ethiopian Markets. Journal of African Economies. 17:747-764. 2008
- Agricultural growth and investment options for poverty reduction in Malawi 2008
- Agricultural growth and investment options for poverty reduction in Uganda 2008
- Agricultural growth and investment options for poverty reduction in Zambia 2008
- Estimating household income to monitor and evaluate public investment programs in Sub-Saharan Africa 2008
- Reaching middle-income status in Ghana by 2015, Public expenditures and agricultural growth 2008
- Benefit-cost analysis of Uganda's clonal coffee replanting program, An ex-ante analysis 2007
- Livestock Productivity in Developing Countries: An Assessment. Handbook of Agricultural Economics. 3:2461-2532. 2007
- Collective action in community management of grazing lands: the case of the highlands of northern Ethiopia. Environment and Development Economics. 11:127-149. 2006
- From "best practice" to "best fit": A framework for designing and analyzing pluralistic agricultural advisory services 2006
- Policies and Programs Affecting Land Management Practices, Input Use, and Productivity in the Highlands of Amhara Region, Ethiopia 2006
- Policies for Livestock Development in the Ethiopian Highlands 2006
- Development of Land Rental Markets and Agricultural Productivity Growth: The Case of Northern Ethiopia. Journal of African Economies. 14:21-54. 2005
- Determinants of change in household level of consumption and poverty in Uganda, 1992/93 - 1999/00 2005
- Livestock marketing in the Ethiopian highlands: changes in structure and conduct since 1991 2005
- The economic determinants of cereal crop diversity on farms in the Ethiopian highlands. Agricultural Economics. 31:197-208. 2004
- Policies affecting changes in ownership of livestock and use of feed resources in the highlands of Northern Ethiopia. Journal of African Economies. 13:166-194. 2004
- Policies for Livestock Development in the Ethiopian Highlands. Environment, Development and Sustainability. 5:491-510. 2003
- Tree planting for poverty reduction in less-favoured areas of the Ethiopian highlands. Small-scale Forestry. 2:63-80. 2003
- Tree planting for poverty reduction in less-favored areas of the Ethiopian highlands. Small Scale Forest Economics, Management and Policy. 2003
- Measurement and sources of technical efficiency of land tenure contracts in Ethiopia. Environment and Development Economics. 7:507-527. 2002
- Livestock, livelihood and land management issues in the highlands of Ethiopia 2002
- Strategies for Sustainable Agricultural Development in the Ethiopian Highlands. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 77:1231-1240. 2001
- Impacts of land redistribution on land management and productivity in the Ethiopian highlands. Land Degradation & Development. 12:555-568. 2001
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book
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chapter
- Strengthening the continental agricultural agenda and accountability framework – The road from Maputo to Malabo 2016
- Agricultural and rural public spending in Africa, Conclusions and implications 2012
- Agricultural growth and poverty reduction impacts of public investments, Assessment of concepts and techniques 2012
- Public expenditures and agricultural productivity growth in Ghana 2012
- Land rental markets and land management in Ethiopia 2008
- Land rental markets and land management, Evidence from Uganda 2008
- Explaining the diversity of cereal crops and varieties grown on household farms in the highlands of Northern Ethiopia 2006
- Food 2005
- Enabling policies and linking producers to markets 2004
- Policies for sustainable development in the highlands of Amhara Region: overview of research findings 2003
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conference paper
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document
- Agricultural productivity in Africa: Trends, patterns, and determinants 2016
- Conclusions and implications for raising and sustaining high agricultural productivity in Africa 2016
- Intertemporal trends in agricultural productivity 2016
- Introduction [In Agricultural productivity in Africa: Trends, patterns, and determinants] 2016
- Why do African countries underinvest in agricultural R&D? 2016
- A database user manual for Statistics on Public Expenditures for Economic Development (SPEED) [2015] 2015
- Towards a sustainable soil fertility strategy in Ghana, Report submitted to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture Government of Ghana 2015
- Are African governments serious about agriculture? 2013
- Complying with the Maputo Declaration target: Trends in public agricultural expenditures and implications for pursuit of optimal allocation of public agricultural spending 2013
- Zambia 2012
- Impact of Uganda's National Agricultural Advisory Services program 2011
- Trends and spatial patterns in agricultural productivity in Africa, 1961-2010 2011
- Do external grants to district governments discourage own-revenue generation?, A look at local public finance dynamics in Ghana 2009
- Public expenditure and institutional review, Ghana's ministry of food and agriculture 2009
- Assessing the impact of the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) in the Uganda rural livelihoods 2007
- Reaching middle-income status in Ghana by 2015, What are the constraints and opportunities for raising agriculture productivity? 2007
- From "best practice" to "best fit": A framework for designing and analyzing pluralistic agricultural advisory services worldwide 2006
- Interregional comparisons of agricultural production efficiency in the Ethiopian highland 2006
- Strategic priorities for agricultural development in Eastern and Central Africa 2006
- Trader behaviour and performance in live animal marketing in rural Ethiopian markets 2006
- Policies for sustainable land management in the East African Highlands, Summary of papers and proceedings of the conference held at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 24-26 April 2002 2002
- Policies for sustainable land management in the East African highlands 2002
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editorial article
- Public Investments in and for Agriculture. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH. 27:337-352. 2015
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report
- Kenya agricultural development status assessment 2016
- Evaluation of four special initiatives of the ministry of food and agriculture 2013
- Options and Priorities for Raising and Maintaining High Agricultural Productivity in Africa 2013
- Evaluation of four special initiatives of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Government of Ghana, Fertilizer subsidy agricultural mechanization block farms and youth in agriculture National Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO) 2012
- Monitoring African agriculture development processes and performance, A comparative analysis 2010
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working paper
- Agricultural growth and poverty reduction in Kenya: technical analysis for the Agricultural Sectoral Development Strategy (ASDS)—Medium Term Investment Plan (MTIP) 2012
- Growth and poverty reduction impacts of public investments in agriculture and rural areas, Assessment Techniques, Tools and Guide for Practitioners 2008
- Land degradation in the highlands of Amhara region and strategies for sustainable land management 2001