Overview
Researchers
Hope Michelson
Associate Professor of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Benjamin Crost
Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Katherine Baylis
Professor in the department of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara
- Country
- Zambia
- Timeline
- 01/10/2021 - 03/01/2022
- Constraints
- Input and Output Markets
- Sample
- 200 farmers and 100 traders
Credit: Alex Berger
Finding the right partners and places to ask questions is paramount to understanding the drivers of agricultural transformation. To facilitate opportunities for researchers and partners to develop trust and scope early-stage evaluation questions, ATAI funds small Proposal Development grants. These support very preliminary, exploratory research activities, including researcher travel. With this Proposal Development grant, the researchers are gathering information about price fluctuations in staple crops at planting and harvest in Zambia to investigate the feasibility of a future randomized evaluation on price insurance and grain storage.