Benjamin Davis

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — Italy

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

46h-index6.6kcitations163works11.42yr avg
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Research Topics

Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare(90), Income, Poverty, and Inequality(46), Child Nutrition and Water Access(38), Microfinance and Financial Inclusion(32), Agricultural risk and resilience(32)

Publications163 total

Wellbeing dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa: a spatial perspective across territorial typologies
Journal of Rural Studies·2025· 2 cited
Decreasing farm sizes and the viability of smallholder farmers: Implications for resilient and inclusive rural transformation
Global Food Security·2025· 16 citedOpen Access
Resilient and inclusive rural transformation in sub-Saharan Africa under climate, demographic, and social change: Challenges and opportunities for income growth and job creation
Global Food Security·2024· 16 cited
Whither the agricultural productivity-led model? Reconsidering resilient and inclusive rural transformation in the context of agrifood systems
Global Food Security·2024· 23 citedOpen Access
Assessing Structural Changes in Women's Employment within Agrifood Systems
SSRN Electronic Journal·2024Open Access
Social Protection and Rural Transformation in Africa
Annual Review of Resource Economics·2023· 24 citedOpen Access
Cash transfers’ role in improving livelihood diversification strategies and well-being: short- and medium-term evidence from Zimbabwe
World Development·2022· 15 cited
Do not transform food systems on the backs of the rural poor
Food Security·2022· 53 citedOpen Access
Mediation analysis of the impact of the Zimbabwe Harmonized Social Cash Transfer Programme on food security and nutrition
Food Policy·2021· 19 cited
The Vanishing Farms? The Impact of International Migration on Albanian Family Farming
2020· 7 citedOpen Access
Heterogeneous impacts of cash transfers on farm profitability. Evidence from a randomised study in Lesotho
European Review of Agricultural Economics·2019· 9 cited
Poverty-environment relationships under market heterogeneity: cash transfers and rural livelihoods in Zambia
Environment and Development Economics·2019· 6 cited
Cash Transfers and Gender Differentials in Child Schooling and Labor: Evidence from the Lesotho Child Grants Programme
Population and Development Review·2019· 27 citedOpen Access
The Household and Individual‐Level Productive Impacts of Cash Transfer Programs in Sub‐Saharan Africa
American Journal of Agricultural Economics·2019· 97 citedOpen Access
Causal pathways of the productive impacts of cash transfers: Experimental evidence from Lesotho
World Development·2018· 32 cited
How much is too much: Does the size of income support transfers affect labor supply?
Journal of Policy Modeling·2018· 11 cited
Myth-Busting? Confronting Six Common Perceptions about Unconditional Cash Transfers as a Poverty Reduction Strategy in Africa
2018· 27 citedOpen Access
Shaping Cash Transfer Impacts Through ‘Soft-Conditions’: Evidence from Lesotho†
Journal of African Economies·2018· 16 citedOpen Access
How Differences in Cash Transfer Sizes Affect Work Allocation Decisions: Evidence from Cross‐Country Comparisons in<scp>SSA</scp>
Labour·2018· 1 cited
Myth-Busting? Confronting Six Common Perceptions about Unconditional Cash Transfers as a Poverty Reduction Strategy in Africa
The World Bank Research Observer·2018· 125 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Paul Winters(20), Alberto Zezza(15), Sudhanshu Handa(14), Calogero Carletto(10), Gero Carletto(8), Katia Covarrubias(8), Kostas Stamoulis(6), Silvio Daidone(6), Esteban J. Quiñones(5), Carlo Azzarri(5), Marco Stampini(5), David Seidenfeld(4), Guy Stecklov(3), Stefania DiGiuseppe(2), Élisabeth Sadoulet(2), Alain de Janvry(2), Juna Miluka(2), Gelson Tembo(2), Solomon Asfaw(2), Amber Peterman(2)