Conference Agenda

ID: 848 / 11-12: 1
Individual Papers
Topics: Economic research and impact evaluation
Keywords: Cassava, Production, Yield, Harvest Diaries, Recall, Crop Cutting, Household Surveys, Malawi

Root for the tubers: extended-harvest crop production and productivity measurement in surveys

Heather Moylan¹, Talip Kilic¹, John Ilukor¹, Innocent Phiri², Clement Mtengula³

¹The World Bank, Italy; ²University of Malawi; ³Consultant

ID: 968 / 11-12: 2
Individual Papers
Topics: Economic research and impact evaluation
Keywords: DNA fingerprinting, Varietal Adoption, DArTseq, Malawi

How much can we trust farmer self-reported data on crop varieties? Experimental evidence using DNA fingerprinting of cassava varieties in Malawi

John Ilukor^1,2, Talip Kilic¹, James Stevenson², Heather Moylan¹, Andrzej Kilian³, Frédéric Kosmowski², Alexander Nganga⁴, Albert Mhone^5,6

¹The Living Standards Measurement Study, Development Data Group, the World Bank, Italy; ²CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council’s Standing Panel on Impact Assessment, Italy; ³University of Canberra, Australia; ⁴International Institute of Tropical Agriculture Malawi; ⁵Chitedze National Agricultural Research Institute, Malawi; ⁶CAVA2, Malawi

ID: 609 / 11-12: 3
Individual Papers
Topics: Use of remote sensing and land use policy
Keywords: agriculture, land measurement, remote sensing, survey methods

Land measurement bias: comparisons from GPS, self-reports and satellite data

Andrew Dillon¹, Lakshman Nagraj Rao²

¹Northwestern University, USA; ²Asian Development Bank, Philippines

ID: 1004 / 11-12: 4
Individual Papers
Topics: Use of remote sensing and land use policy
Keywords: Yield Measurement Errors, Inverse scale-productivity relationship, Remote Sensing, Household Surveys, Mali

Assessing the impact of systematic measurement error in farmer-reported crop production on the scale-productivity relationship: evidence from a survey experiment in Mali

Ismael Yacoubou Djima, Talip Kilic, Sydney Gourlay

The World Bank, Italy

ID: 1032 / 11-12: 5
Individual Papers
Topics: New ways of land data capture & analysis (incl. machine learning)
Keywords: Soil Quality, Soil Testing, Geospatial Data, Household Survey, Agriculture

From the ground up: integrating survey and geospatial data for improved soil fertility measurement at scale

Sydney Gourlay, Talip Kilic

World Bank, Italy