Working papers
History of Adoption and Intra-Household Impacts of Bt Eggplant Technology Exposure in Bangladesh with K. Reddy, Tufan H.A. and J. Hoddinott (under review at Agricultural Economics)
Drivers of soil erosion in Mediterranean marginal areas: a mixed-method approach combining fuzzy cognitive mapping, agronomic modeling and interviews with De Leo S., Mancini Teixeira H. and A. Mantino (under review at Agronomy for Sustainable Development)
Women’s crops? 25 years of gendered cropping patterns in Ghana with Cheryl Doss (Tufts University), invited book chapter
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)
Work in progress
35 years after Farmer First: participatory research and extension in national food policies – in collaboration 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.
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 – in collaboration with: Tennant E. (Cornell University)
Whose bias? Evidence from a respondent-intentional approach to DNA fingerprinting – in collaboration with Puerto S. (Berkely University) and Sanchez L. (Cornell University)
Beyond dis-agreement: intra-household concordance on crop management and trait preferences - in collaboration 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 - in collaboration with: M. Coronese, F. Lamperti and A. Roventini (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies)
What farmers care about when making varietal decisions? Coordinating traditional and academic ecological knowledge in participatory plant breeding