Working papers

• Women’s crops? 25 years of gendered cropping patterns in Ghana -  with Cheryl Doss (Tufts University). Invited book chapter (soon to be published)

• Citizen science in Ethiopia contests prevailing assumptions in formal seed systems about what men and women smallholders want and reveals their latent demand for diversity (under review at Agricultural Systems)

• 35  years after Farmer First: participatory research and extension in national food policies – with Thompson J. (Institute of Development Studies), Ashby J. (CGIAR consultant), Spielman D. (IFPRI) and Tufan H.A. (Cornell University). Invited for 50th anniversary special issue of Food Policy.

• Intra-household concordance on women’s decision-making, time and experience: implications for plant breeding - with Mukerjee R. (IFPRI), Faye N.F. (ISRA-BAME), Badji M. (ISRA-BAME), Gomez M. (Cornell University), Rubin D. (Cultural Practice, LLC), Doss C. (Tufts University) and Tufan H.A. (Cornell University) 

• Land-use transitions in an evolutionary agent-based model: alternative soil management regimes under environmental boundaries - with Coronese M., Lamperti F. and Roventini A. (Sant' Anna School of Advanced Studies)

• Evidence from a respondent-intentional approach to DNA fingerprinting for adoption studies - witth Puerto S. (UC Berkeley) and Sanchez L. (Cornell University)

(Selected) Work in progress

• Rain does not fall on one roof alone: the share of local knowledge in idir mediates risk perceptions on rainfall frequency and intensity in marginal farming systems – with Tennant E. (Cornell University)

• What farmers care about when making varietal decisions? Coordinating traditional and academic ecological knowledge in participatory plant breeding 

• Underutilized crops, food security and behavioral factors: the case of breadfruit in Madagascar - with Bozzola M. (FiBL) and Cerroni S. (University of Trento)