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CRIFS Technical Brief: A Food Systems Framework
EPAR TECHNICAL BRIEF #396A Fri, 01/24/2025 AUTHORS: C. Leigh Anderson, Alex Huff, Telli Koroma, Lucero Marquez, and Rebecca Toole ABSTRACT: Existing frameworks fail to explicitly identify the role of small-scale producers (SSPs) in food systems. We adapted existing food system frameworks to develop a supply chain-focused, conceptual framework of food systems that accounted for SSPs…
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Gendered languages
Introduction Language is an important cultural institution in human society. The World Bank (2019) estimates that 38 percent of world languages have grammatical gender, which can be defined as a system of word classification in which words are grouped into categories or “genders”. In the last decade, gendered language has attracted increasing attention from social…
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AgQuery 50X2030 Cambodia Initiative
Earlier this month, members of the Evans School Policy and Analysis Research (EPAR) group visited Cambodia, for the launch of AgQuery, an open-source, publicly-available data-visualization tool that EPAR developed to guide policy analysis and host rich agricultural data like the Cambodian Agricultural Survey. University of Washington Professors Leigh Anderson and Stanley Wood, and EPAR Research…
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Patterns of household food consumption across food groups and sources in sub-Saharan African countries
Background In most low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), per capita food expenditure has been steadily rising over the past few decades despite challenges from climate change, conflict, and COVID-19. Trends in food consumption are driven by urbanization, higher incomes, globalization, increased economic integration, and consumer preferences. In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) there has been a shift…
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Where do African farmers obtain their seed from? Insights from Ethiopia and Nigeria
Background and motivation Timely access to quality seed, among other factors, determines household planting decisions and has implications for agricultural productivity. Hence, it is important to understand where and how small-scale producers (SSP) obtain their seed. To answer this question, we use nationally representative agricultural households survey data from the Living Standards and Measurement Study…
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Year Over Year Smallholder Threshold Variability (Sub-Saharan Africa)
Defining Smallholder FarmersSmallholder Farmers or Small-Scale Producers, are frequently mentioned as targets for development interventions, to relieve hunger, alleviate poverty, or catalyze agricultural transformation. However, an operationalizable definition of a smallholder farmer is difficult to come by, with few sources even defining the term. When sources do offer a definition, they rarely agree on the indicators and…
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CRIFS Technical Brief: A Food Systems Framework
EPAR TECHNICAL BRIEF #396A Fri, 01/24/2025 AUTHORS: C. Leigh Anderson, Alex Huff, Telli Koroma, Lucero Marquez, and Rebecca Toole ABSTRACT: Existing frameworks fail to explicitly identify the role of small-scale producers (SSPs) in food systems. We adapted existing food system frameworks to develop a supply chain-focused, conceptual framework of food systems that accounted for SSPs… -
Introduction Language is an important cultural institution in human society. The World Bank (2019) estimates that 38 percent of world languages have grammatical gender, which can be defined as a system of word classification in which words are grouped into categories or “genders”. In the last decade, gendered language has attracted increasing attention from social… -
AgQuery 50X2030 Cambodia Initiative
Earlier this month, members of the Evans School Policy and Analysis Research (EPAR) group visited Cambodia, for the launch of AgQuery, an open-source, publicly-available data-visualization tool that EPAR developed to guide policy analysis and host rich agricultural data like the Cambodian Agricultural Survey. University of Washington Professors Leigh Anderson and Stanley Wood, and EPAR Research… -
Background In most low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), per capita food expenditure has been steadily rising over the past few decades despite challenges from climate change, conflict, and COVID-19. Trends in food consumption are driven by urbanization, higher incomes, globalization, increased economic integration, and consumer preferences. In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) there has been a shift… -
Where do African farmers obtain their seed from? Insights from Ethiopia and Nigeria
Background and motivation Timely access to quality seed, among other factors, determines household planting decisions and has implications for agricultural productivity. Hence, it is important to understand where and how small-scale producers (SSP) obtain their seed. To answer this question, we use nationally representative agricultural households survey data from the Living Standards and Measurement Study… -
Year Over Year Smallholder Threshold Variability (Sub-Saharan Africa)
Defining Smallholder FarmersSmallholder Farmers or Small-Scale Producers, are frequently mentioned as targets for development interventions, to relieve hunger, alleviate poverty, or catalyze agricultural transformation. However, an operationalizable definition of a smallholder farmer is difficult to come by, with few sources even defining the term. When sources do offer a definition, they rarely agree on the indicators and…