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Benjamin Davis is affiliated with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on topics related to poverty, education, child welfare, agricultural risk and resilience, microfinance and financial inclusion, agriculture and rural development research, agricultural innovations and practices, agriculture, land use and rural development, and child nutrition and water access.

Their work spans several main fields of study, notably Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Social Sciences. Within these fields, their research intersects with subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Safety Research, Soil Science, and Economics and Econometrics.

Benjamin Davis has contributed to multiple publications, with frequent appearances in journals such as Global Food Security, Food Security, Annual Review of Resource Economics, Food Policy, and World Development.

  • Global Food Security
  • Food Security
  • Annual Review of Resource Economics
  • Food Policy
  • World Development

Their notable recent papers include:

  • Do not transform food systems on the backs of the rural poor, 2022, Food Security
  • Whither the agricultural productivity-led model? Reconsidering resilient and inclusive rural transformation in the context of agrifood systems, 2024, Global Food Security

Benjamin Davis frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including Silvio Daidone, Ana Paula de la O Campos, Paul Winters, Nicholas J. Sitko, and Noemi Pace.

  • Silvio Daidone
  • Ana Paula de la O Campos
  • Paul Winters
  • Nicholas J. Sitko
  • Noemi Pace

Best Publications

  • The Experience of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Sudhanshu Handa;Benjamin Davis

  • A Cross-Country Comparison of Rural Income Generating Activities

    Benjamin Davis;Paul Winters;Gero Carletto;Katia Covarrubias

  • Cash Transfer Programs with Income Multipliers: PROCAMPO in Mexico

    Elisabeth Sadoulet;Alain de Janvry;Benjamin Davis

  • Are African Households (Not) Leaving Agriculture? : Patterns of Households’ Income Sources in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa

    Benjamin K. Davis;Stefania Di Giuseppe;Alberto Zezza

  • Targeting the Poor in Mexico: An Evaluation of the Selection of Households into PROGRESA

    Emmanuel Skoufias;Benjamin Davis;Sergio de la Vega

  • The impact of rising food prices on the poor

    Alberto Zezza;Benjamin Davis;Carlo Azzarri;Katia Covarrubias

  • Assets, Activities and Rural Income Generation: Evidence from a Multicountry Analysis

    Paul Winters;Benjamin Davis;Gero Carletto;Katia Covarrubias

  • From protection to production: productive impacts of the Malawi Social Cash Transfer scheme

    Katia Covarrubias;Benjamin Davis;Paul Winters

  • Domestic and international migration from rural Mexico: Disaggregating the effects of network structure and composition

    Benjamin Davis;Guy Stecklov;Paul Winters

  • Do conditional cash transfers influence migration? A study using experimental data from the Mexican PROGRESA program.

    Guy Stecklov;Paul Winters;Marco Stampini;Benjamin Davis

  • Global food systems transitions have enabled affordable diets but had less favourable outcomes for nutrition, environmental health, inclusion and equity

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  • Assets, Activities and Income Generation in Rural Mexico: Factoring in Social and Public Capital

    Paul C. Winters;Benjamin Davis;Leonardo Corral

  • Gender, Networks and Mexico-U.S. Migration

    Benjamin Davis;Paul Winters

  • Investing Back Home : Return Migration and Business Ownership in Albania

    Talip Kilic;Calogero Carletto;Benjamin Davis;Alberto Zezza

  • Cash Transfer Programme, Productive Activities and Labour Supply: Evidence from a Randomised Experiment in Kenya

    Solomon Asfaw;Benjamin Davis;Josh Dewbre;Sudhanshu Handa

  • Rural Income Generating Activities : A Cross Country Comparison

    Benjamin Davis;Paul Winters;Gero Carletto;Katia Covarrubias

  • From Evidence to Action The Story of Cash Transfers and Impact Evaluation in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Paul Winters;Benjamin Davis;Sudhanshu Handa;Sudhanshu Handa;Nicola Hypher

  • From Evidence to Action: The Story of Cash Transfers and Impact Evaluation in Sub Saharan Africa

    Benjamin Davis;Sudhanshu Handa;Nicola Hypher;Natalia Winder Rossi

  • Assessing the impact of migration on food and nutrition security

    Alberto Zezza;Calogero Carletto;Benjamin Davis;Paul Winters

  • Rural nonfarm employment and farming: household-level linkages.

    Benjamin Davis;Paul Winters;Thomas Reardon;Kostas Stamoulis

  • The Vanishing Farms? The Impact of International Migration on Albanian Family Farming

    Juna Miluka;Gero Carletto;Benjamin Davis;Alberto Zezza

  • Cash transfer programs with income multipliers

    Elisabeth Sadoulet;Benjamin Davis;Alain de Janvry

  • Assets, Activities and Income Generation in Rural Mexico: Factoring in Social and Public Capital

    Paul Winters;Leonardo Corral;Benjamin Davis

Frequent Co-Authors

Sudhanshu Handa
Sudhanshu Handa University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Amber Peterman
Amber Peterman University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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