• Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar: experiencias de administración de caminos rurales en la provincia de Buenos Aires 

      Gatti, Nicolas; Benito Amaro, Ignacio; Cano, Priscila (Asociación Argentina de Economía Agraria (AAEA), 2022-10)
      El objetivo de este trabajo es caracterizar experiencias de administración de caminos rurales bonaerenses siguiendo el marco teórico de la nueva economía institucional. Utilizamos una base de datos de alertas de mal estado ...
    • Economic value of Brangus cattle traits in Argentina 

      Gatti, Nicolas; Funes, Victor; Benito Amaro, Ignacio (Wiley, 2024-05)
      Starting in the early 2000s, a boom in demand for agricultural commodities displaced cattle ranching out of the most productive areas of the Pampas' prairie. The crossbreeds between Angus and Hereford with Brahman, that ...
    • How much control do smallholder maize farmers have over yield? 

      Cecil, Michael; Chilenga, Allan; Chisanga, Charles; Gatti, Nicolas; Krell, Natasha; Vergopolan, Noemi; Baylis, Kathy; Caylor, Kelly; Evans, Tom; Konar, Megan; Sheffield, Justin; Estes, Lyndon (Elsevier, 2023-10)
      Smallholder agriculture is critical for current and future food security, yet quantifying the sources of smallholder yield variance remains a major challenge. Attributing yield variance to farmer management, as opposed to ...
    • Is closing the agricultural yield gap a “risky” endeavor? 

      Gatti, Nicolas; Cecil, Michael; Baylis, Kathy; Estes, Lyndon; Blekking, Jordan; Heckelei, Thomas; Vergopolan, Noemi; Evans, Tom (Elsevier, 2023-05)
      CONTEXT: Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has the climatic and biophysical potential to grow the crops it needs to meet rapidly growing food demand; however, agricultural productivity remains low. While potential maize yields in ...