Christopher S Barrett

Overseas Research: A Practical Guide

Overseas Research: A Practical Guide

Tradeoffs or Synergies: Agricultural Intensification, Economic Development and the Environment

Natural Resources Management in African Agriculture: Understanding and Improving Current Practices

Food Security and Sociopolitical Stability

Global food price spikes in 2008 and again in 2011 coincided with a surge of political unrest in low- and middle-income countries. Angry consumers took to the streets in scores of nations. In some places, food riots turned violent, pressuring governments and in a few cases contributed to their overt...

Food Aid After Fifty Years: Recasting its Role (Priorities for Development Economics)

This book analyzes the impact food aid programmes have had over the past fifty years, assessing the current situation as well as future prospects. Issues such as political expediency, the impact of international trade and exchange rates are put under the microscope to provide the reader with a great...

The Social Economics of Poverty (Priorities for Development Economics)

A unique analysis of the moral and social dimensions of microeconomic behaviour in developing countries, this book calls into question standard notions of rationality and many of the assumptions of neo-classical economics, and shows how these are inappropriate in communities with widespread disparit...

Understanding and Reducing Persistent Poverty in Africa

Prior work has shown that there is a significant amount of turnover amongst the African poor as households exit and enter poverty. Some of this mobility can be attributed to regular movement back and forth in response to exogenous variability in climate, prices, health, etc. ('churning'). Other cros...

Overseas Research II: A Practical Guide

Researchers in developing countries often find that the particular country in which they work presents a range of unforeseen challenges. Indeed, their ability to carry out effective scholarship is often highly dependent on these factors. The great differences between working in countries as varied a...

Tradeoffs or Synergies?: Agricultural Intensification, Economic Development and the Environment

The need to increase food production, enhance economic growth and reduce poverty in an environmentally sustainable context is an issue of growing importance. This book addresses the linkages and tradeoffs involved in solving such key challenges.