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Jeffrey Bloem @jeffbloem.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Subsidizing fertilizer is a popular policy, how well do they effectively target intended beneficiaries? Join us, Wednesday, October 14. More info👇🏼

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International Food Policy Research Institute @ifpri.org · 07/10/2026

📢 Save the date! 📌 Subsidy Programs for Chemical Fertilizers: What We Know about Targeting Beneficiaries 🤝 IFPRI & AgIncentives Consortium 📆October 14, 2026, 10:00–11:00am (US/Eastern) 🗨️@jeffbloem.bsky.social @carlytrachtman.bsky.social & Ruth Hill 🎫 on.cgiar.org/47og5I9 @cgiar.org

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International Food Policy Research Institute @ifpri.org · 12/09/2026

Synthesizing evidence from recent @cgiar.org studies examining how conflict affects farming households across the Sahel region, a recent study reveals a striking pattern: farmer-herder conflict is not simply destroying lives but also transforming livelihoods: on.cgiar.org/4dqm8iq

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Beyond the violence: How farmer-herder conflict is reshaping rural livelihoods in the Sahel

Shifting behavior and economic attitudes.

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Dean Yang @deanyang.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Development economics finally has a global professional home. Today we launch @ideadevecon.bsky.social ... Open to every development economist, everywhere. Join the community: idea.devecon.org Please share 🌍

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Jeffrey Bloem @jeffbloem.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Join us in-person (if you’re in DC) or online, it should be fun!

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José H Quintero Beltrán @josehquinterob.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

🎉First post here I had the privilege of moderating a fantastic @aaea-economics.bsky.social webinar today on using social media for professional visibility 🌾💻 If you missed the live session, you can catch the full recording on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0fM...

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Using Social Media for Professional Visibility

YouTube video by Ag Econ (AAEA)

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The Review of Economic Studies (REStud) @reveconstudies.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Why/how should multiple hypothesis testing be done differently in empirical work? We give an economic foundation trading off research costs and incentives with implications for empirical practice. New paper by Viviano, Wüthrich, and Niehaus: www.restud.com/a-model-of-m... #REStud #EconSky

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Jeffrey Bloem @jeffbloem.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Yikes! The knock on effects of climate change seem quite bad… The upside of this is that increasing agricultural productivity, and adaptation to a changing climate, can reduce deforestation pressures… Let’s slow climate change and increase agricultural productivity!

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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

🆕 African agriculture's underappreciated supply side Today on VoxDevTalks, @hopecm.bsky.social (UIUC) discusses how understanding the risks, incentives, and constraints faced by agro-dealers is essential for sustained productivity gains: voxdev.org/topic/agricu...

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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Excited to share a new R package: 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁 🌡️ `heat` makes it easier to work with climate or other gridded data in applied research, providing a comprehensive + optimized set of tools to compute environmental exposures for admin boundaries or points from gridded/point data. github.com/echolab-stan...

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GitHub - echolab-stanford/heat: R package heat: Harmonized Environmental Exposure Aggregation Tools

R package heat: Harmonized Environmental Exposure Aggregation Tools - echolab-stanford/heat

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

What would it cost to end extreme poverty? "We estimate that reducing the poverty rate to 1% ... would cost $170B nominal per year." "The results correspond to a cost of (approximately) ending extreme poverty of roughly 0.3% of global GDP."

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Jeffrey Bloem @jeffbloem.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Hola Arepa is also serves excellent food!

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IPUMS @ipums.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Did you hear the USDA plans to cease data collection for the CPS Food Security supplement? We have a blog post to give you more information. If you want to sign a letter asking for data collection to continue, see the threaded opportunities below. blog.popdata.org/food-securit...

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Measuring Food Security with U.S. Federal Data – Use It for Good

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Evidence from the same context + the same team (now adding @JeffBloem) that while depression ⬆️ among women in the perinatal period in S Africa, exposure to the grant during the perinatal period eliminates this increased risk www.dropbox.com/scl/...

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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

🆕 Intensification or expansion? A new approach to measuring agricultural change Today on VoxDev, @jeffbloem.bsky.social (@ifpri.org) & Clark Lundberg (San Diego State University) discuss the impact of agricultural technology adoption on deforestation in Nigeria: voxdev.org/topic/agricu...

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Intensification or expansion? A new approach to measuring agricultural change

Drawing on a randomised controlled trial among rice farmers in Nigeria, we introduce a new method for linking village-level interventions with high-resolution earth observation data – which captures s...

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Icymi. . .@ifpri is on fire in the latest issue of JDE (well, soon-to-be the Jan 2026 issue of JDE) with six separate papers from 7 different researchers

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Jeffrey Bloem @jeffbloem.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

… Women disproportionately move from primary production to downstream, consumer-facing retail and food service, whereas men migrate to better-paying midstream jobs, increasing gender pay inequality within the value chain."

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Jeffrey Bloem @jeffbloem.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

From the abstract, "As incomes grow, labour exits primary production while downstream agrifood value chain segments maintain a steady economy-wide employment share—offering jobs that pay better than farm work…

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Jeffrey Bloem @jeffbloem.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

In a new paper published in Nature Food, Jing Yi, Shiyun Jiang, Dianna Tran, Miguel Gόmez, Patrick Canning, Christopher Barrett, and I show evidence of shifts in agrifood value chain employment and compensation amid the structural transformation process.

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Jeffrey Bloem @jeffbloem.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

This traditional narrative, however, ignores whether workers exit agrifood value chains entirely or merely migrate within them.

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Jeffrey Bloem @jeffbloem.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Anyone who has studied development economics has learned about the structural transformation of national economies that occurs amid the development process. The traditional narrative emphasizes intersectoral labour reallocation out of agriculture and into manufacturing and services.

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International Food Policy Research Institute @ifpri.org · 21/08/2025

🆕 #Blog Nature’s ‘double dividend’ from agricultural technology adoption 🖋️ By @jeffbloem.bsky.social. 🔗 Read the full story here: on.cgiar.org/4oR3GUA @cgiar.org

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Nature’s ‘double dividend’ from agricultural technology adoption

A new form of fertilizer offers advantages.

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Jeffrey Bloem @jeffbloem.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

New on the @ifpri.org blog today: “Nature’s ‘double dividend’ from agricultural technology adoption” www.ifpri.org/blog/natures...

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Nature’s ‘double dividend’ from agricultural technology adoption

A new form of fertilizer offers advantages.

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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

The #WEFIDEV #webinar series is back this fall! We are looking for *preliminary or early-stage work* in #Finance and #Development to be presented We also aim to have a session devoted to job candidates in finance and development on the market this fall Submit: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Webinar in Finance and Development (WEFIDEV)

This form collects interest for presentations in the fall season of the Webinar series in Finance and Development (WEFIDEV) for junior scholars working on finance topics in developing countries. We ar...

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 11/08/2025

In low-income countries, most people work in farming; in richer countries, they work in services

This graphic illustrates the distribution of the labor force across different sectors—agriculture, industry, and services—based on income levels of countries in 2023.

On the left, there is a stacked bar representing low-income countries, where 59% of the workforce is in agriculture, 10% in industry, and 31% in services. Next, the lower-middle-income group shows a breakdown of 40% in agriculture, 23% in industry, and 37% in services. The upper-middle-income countries have 21% in agriculture, 28% in industry, and 51% in services. Finally, in high-income countries, only 3% of the labor force is in agriculture, with 23% in industry and 74% in services.

The title highlights the trend that higher-income countries have fewer agricultural workers and a greater proportion involved in industry and services. The footer indicates the data source is the International Labor Organization (2025)

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Jeffrey Bloem @jeffbloem.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Really excited to have this paper published in the JDE! Available online today, blog post and more coming soon… “Agricultural technology adoption and deforestation: Evidence from a randomized control trial” co-authored with Clark Lundberg www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Agricultural technology adoption and deforestation: Evidence from a randomized control trial

We study the effect of the adoption of improved agricultural inputs on deforestation using a randomized control trial in Nigeria which introduced a mo…

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Leah Bevis @leahbevis.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Literally joined this platform (finally) to share this AEDE blog. If you are not heartbroken at the scale of child suffering in Gaza, you are not paying attention. Call your federal rep — at the very least. u.osu.edu/aede/2025/07...

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Jeffrey Bloem @jeffbloem.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Now available online at JESA: “Survey ordering and the measurement of welfare” with Wahed Rahman and Marc Bellemare #openaccess link here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Survey ordering and the measurement of welfare | Journal of the Economic Science Association | Cambridge Core

Survey ordering and the measurement of welfare

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Jeffrey Bloem @jeffbloem.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

We summarized our findings on how farmer-herder conflict influences the labor allocation of agricultural households in this @voxdev.bsky.social piece. Here is a link to a longer thread on the paper, recently published in the JDE: bsky.app/profile/jeff...

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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

🆕 How climate-induced conflict is shaping rural Nigeria Today on VoxDev, @jeffbloem.bsky.social @ifpri.org, Amy Damon (Macalester College), David Francis (World Bank), Harrison Mitchell @ucsandiego.bsky.social show how repeated exposure to violence shifts labour patterns: voxdev.org/topic/energy...

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How climate-induced conflict is shaping rural Nigeria

As climate change stretches Nigeria’s dry seasons and disrupts traditional grazing patterns, tensions between nomadic herders and settled farmers fuel violent conflict—most intensely just before the p...

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International Food Policy Research Institute @ifpri.org · 07/07/2025

🆕 🗞️ Income aspirations and migration: Evidence from rural #Tajikistan 🖊️ By @jeffbloem.bsky.social, Isabel Lambrecht, and Kamiljon Akromov. 🖱️ Learn more here: doi.org/10.1177/0197... @cgiar.org

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Alan de Brauw @adebrauw.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

It's blog week around here. Here's a piece on work with @kateambler.bsky.social @jeffbloem.bsky.social @mehrabbakhtiar.bsky.social & Eduardo Maruyama on financial innovation in agrifood systems, part of the new @ifpri.org series on Financing Food Systems Transformation www.ifpri.org/blog/four-le...

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Four lessons for financial innovation in agrifood systems

Digital apps and other approaches for modernizing value chains.

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Jeffrey Bloem @jeffbloem.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Happy to see this paper finally published and available online today! More things coming soon that build on this project, so stay tuned… with co-authors Saweda Liverpool-Tasie, Andrew Dillon, and Serge Adjognon www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Private sector promotion of agricultural technologies: Experimental evidence from Nigeria

Private sector agricultural businesses are critical for scaling new and potentially environmentally-friendly technologies, though much attention has f…

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Did you know that your siblings can influence whether you vote? Well, because of our new working paper you do! @mike-bloem.bsky.social, @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social, sam imlay

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Five actions to prevent the devastating long-term effects of malnutrition www.cgdev.org/blog/malnutr... from @eeshani.bsky.social @cgdev.org

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Jeffrey Bloem @jeffbloem.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Using panel data from 2010 through 2019, we highlight how exposure to violence can lead to differing responses in the planting or harvest seasons and among men or women.

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Jeffrey Bloem @jeffbloem.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

We generate theory and evidence to study the labor responses of individuals within agricultural households to herder-related violence and consider a “shadow of violence” mechanism, whereby previous exposure to a violent event alters labor responses to a recent event.

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Jeffrey Bloem @jeffbloem.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Violent conflict between nomadic herders and settled agricultural communities in Nigeria occurs as both groups clash over the use of land and natural resources, in part, due to a changing climate.

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Jeffrey Bloem @jeffbloem.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Really excited to have our paper “Herder-related violence, labor allocation, and the gendered response of agricultural households” published in the JDE!!

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