Conference Agenda

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

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

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

Andrew Dillon¹, Lakshman Nagraj Rao²

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

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

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

Sydney Gourlay, Talip Kilic

World Bank, Italy