Research

Publications

13) Farmers agronomic management responses to extreme drought and rice yields in Bihar, India. Agricultural Water Management, 2025.

12) Risk-return trade-offs in diversified cropping systems under conservation agriculture: Evidence from a 14-year long-term field experiment in north-western India. European Journal of Agronomy, 2025.

11) Closing the Gaps in Experimental and Observational Crop Response Estimates: A Bayesian Approach. Q Open, 2024.

10) Risk-based evaluations of competing agronomic climate adaptation strategies: The case of rice planting strategies in the indo-Gangetic Plains. Agricultural Systems, 2024.

9) Good fences make good neighbors? Exploring potential transformative impacts of local governance towards livestock fence-in rights in Malawi. Outlook on Agriculture, 2024.

8) Economics of Crop Residue Management. Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2023.

7) Is wealth found in the soil or in the brain? Investing in farm people in Malawi. Review of Development Economics, 2023.

6) Inter-district food flows in Malawi. Food Security, 2022. Ungated version.

5) Games of strategy in culture and economics research. Journal of Economic Methodology, 2020. Ungated version.

4) Mancala board games and origins of entrepreneurship in Africa. PLOS ONE 2020, 15(10).

3) Graphical analysis of agricultural spillover potential. Economics of Innovation and New Technology,2017, 17(6): 533-553.

2) Poverty-Lack of Access to Adequate Safe Water Nexus: Evidence from Rural Malawi. (with Charles Jumbe and Kenneth Wiyo). African Development Review ,2013, 25(4): 537-550.

1) Comparative analysis of biofuels policy development in Sub-Saharan Africa: The place of private and public sectors. (with Charles Jumbe). Renewable Energy ,2013, 50: 614-620.

Reports and manuals

1) Workflows for spatial ex ante economic analysis of agronomy interventions : Version 0.1 (with Jordan Chamberlin and Oyinbo Oyankhilomen .

2) How much is enough? A Spatial Bioeconomic Model for Agroecology (SpBiMA) trade-off assessments. EiA Report. (with Hambulo Ngoma) .

3) .Spatially explicit trends in nitrogen use efficiency and partial profits in Tanzania, 2008-2020. EiA Report. (with Jordan Chamberlin) .

4) .Predictive mapping of wholesale grain prices for rural areas in Tanzania. EiA Report. (Madaga, L., Chamberlin, J., Bisrat Gebrekidan., Silva, J. V., Mkondiwa, M. & Hijmans, R. J) .

Conference proceedings

1) Empowering Sustainability Transitions in Agri-food Systems Using Big Data and Causal Artificial Intelligence (Causal AI). NUTRI 2023 Conference at HAU .

Working papers

1. Whither broad or spatially specific fertilizer recommendations? (with Terry Hurley). Revise and Resubmit.

2. Characteristics space analysis of agricultural technology adoption Dissertation Chapter 3.

3. Behavioral game models for real-world games. Working paper.

4. Farmers Agronomic Management Responses to Extreme Drought and Rice Yields in Bihar, India. Working paper. (with Mkondiwa, Maxwell and Kishore, Avinash and Chellattan Veettil, Prakashan and Sherpa, Sonam and Saxena, Satyam and Pinjarla, Bhavani and Urfels, Anton and Poonia, Shishpal and Ajay, Anurag and Craufurd, Peter and Malik, Ram K. and McDonald, Andrew J.).

5. Bigger Data from Landscape-Scale Crop Assessment Surveys Empowers Sustainability Transitions. Working paper. (with McDonald, Andrew J. and Malik, Ram K. and Ajay, Anurag and Craufurd, Peter and Dubey, Shantanu and Gautam, Udham and Karki, Saral and Kishore, Avinash and Krupnik, Timothy J. and Kumar, Virender and Mkondiwa, Maxwell and Nayak, Hari S. and Parihar, Chiter M. and Paudel, Gokul and Peramaiyan, Panneer and Pundir, Ajay and Poonia, Shishpal and Samaddar, Arindam and Sherpa, Sonam and Singh, Balwinder and Singh, Sudhanshu and Urfels, Anton and Chellattan Veettil, Prakashan and Pathak, Himanshu and Singh, A. K).2023.

Work in progress

1. Meta Review of the “Conventional” Crop Varietal Use Evidence for Africa (with Phil Pardey). Presented at the SPIA-Gates Foundation Meetin g, Washington
2. A Cautionary Political Economy Tale of Large Farm Registration in Malawi

4. Towards a theory of spatial organization of agriculture and land rights
5. Incidence and productivity effects of abusus land rights: Evidence from Malawi
6. Climate geoengineering impacts on global economic production (with Jay Coggins, Ben Kravitz, Ian Luby, Ibrahim Keita and Sinafikeh Germesa).

7. What do we know about (procured) input use in African agriculture (with Phil Pardey, Alison Joglekar,Connie Chan-Kang, Frikkie Liebenberg, Ian Luby, Senait Senay, Carlo Azzarri and Terry Hurley).

8.Sufficient Statistics, Exact Hat Algebra, and Differential Approaches in Economics.