Amsterdam Centre for World Food Studies

prof. dr. Wendy Janssens
- w.janssensvunl
- School of Business and Economics, Economics - Full Professor
- Tinbergen Institute - Research Fellow
Person: Academic
prof. dr. PF Lanjouw
- p.f.lanjouwvunl
- School of Business and Economics, Economics - Full Professor
- Tinbergen Institute - Research Fellow
- Amsterdam Centre for World Food Studies - Full Professor
Person: Academic
prof. dr. Menno Pradhan
- m.p.pradhanvunl
- School of Business and Economics, Economics - Full Professor
- Amsterdam Centre for World Food Studies - Full Professor
Person: Academic
dr. Lia van Wesenbeeck
- c.f.a.van.wesenbeeckvunl
- School of Business and Economics, Economics - Associate Professor
- Amsterdam Sustainability Institute - Associate Professor
- Amsterdam Centre for World Food Studies - Director
Person: Academic

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2 Finished

The nexus of water, energy and food in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region of China
van Wesenbeeck, L., Li, W. & Ward, P.
1/09/21 → 31/08/25
Project: Research
Innovative Partnership for Universal Sustainable Health
Aksünger, N., Pradhan, M. & Janssens, W.
Project: Research
GNWP: Final evaluation of the Ghana Netherlands WASH Programme (GNWP)
van Wesenbeeck, L., Sonneveld, B. & Snelder, D.
1/10/22 → 29/02/24
Project: Research
FAO-SIDS: Technical Services to support the implementation of a water-energy-food nexus project aiming to strengthen the resilience of Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the face of climate change
van Wesenbeeck, L. & Sonneveld, B.
1/03/22 → 31/01/24
Project: Research

100 Article
22 Report
13 PhD-Thesis - Research and graduation internal
9 Working paper
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Using technology to prevent fraud in high stakes national school examinations: Evidence from Indonesia
Berkhout, E., Pradhan, M., Rahmawati, Suryadarma, D. & Swarnata, A., Sept 2024, In: Journal of Development Economics. 170, p. 1-18 18 p., 103307.
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Open Access
How accurate is a poverty map based on remote sensing data? An application to Malawi
van der Weide, R., Blankespoor, B., Elbers, C. & Lanjouw, P., Oct 2024, In: Journal of Development Economics. 171, p. 1-27 27 p., 103352.
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Interactions between sustainable development goals at the district level in Lao PDR
Garcia Rojas, D., Appelt, J. L., Epprecht, M., Kounnavong, S., Elbers, C., Lanjouw, PF. & van Vliet, J., Jun 2024, In: World Development. 178, 10 p., 106564.
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

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Nutrition fragility in isolation: Food insecurity in Small Island Developing States
Atzori, D., Sonneveld, B. G. J. S., Alfarra, A. & Merbis, M. D., 6 Mar 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Food Security. 16, 2, p. 437-453 17 p.
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Open Access
Analyzing the impact of an MDG-Fund program on childhood malnutrition in Timor-Leste
Van der Spek, L. & Sonneveld, B. G. J. S., 2024, In: Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition. 43, p. 1-15 15 p., 46.
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Open Access

Applying Economics
Menno Pradhan
1/09/24 → 31/08/25
Course
Development Economics
Marc Witte
1/09/24 → 31/08/25
Course
Foundations of Macroeconomics
Lia van Wesenbeeck
1/09/24 → 31/08/25
Course
Globalization, Growth and Development
PF Lanjouw
1/09/24 → 31/08/25
Course
Health Economics
Wendy Janssens
1/09/24 → 31/08/25
Course

22 Lecture / Presentation
6 Conference
5 Membership
3 Consultancy
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Accelerating food systems transformation, the global and Dutch responses to Africa’s challenges
Lia van Wesenbeeck (Chair)
29 Mar 2023
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference › Societal
Maternal Depression in Africa
Wendy Janssens (Speaker)
21 Nov 2023
Activity: Lecture / Presentation › Academic
Exploring nutritional deficits in the Nyando Basin, Kenya: optimization modelling for policy recommendations
Lia van Wesenbeeck (Speaker)
31 Oct 2023
Activity: Lecture / Presentation › Academic
13th European Conference on Tropical Medicine and International Health (ECTMIH2023) themed “Climate change and planetary health”, Utrecht, 19-23 November 2023
Wendy Janssens (Organiser)
19 Nov 2023 → 23 Nov 2023
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference › Academic
Annual AIGHD/Joep Lange Chair Symposium, Amsterdam 31 October
Wendy Janssens (Organiser)
23 Oct 2023
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Seminar › Academic

Editors’s Paper of the Year Award 2023
Janssens, Wendy (Recipient), 2023
Prize / Grant: Prize › Academic
NWO-WOTRO grant: Comparing the impact and cost effectiveness of two social protection interventions in Kenya: fee waiver versus social health insurance scheme
Elbers, Chris (Recipient), 2015
Prize / Grant: Grant › Academic
Research grant extension on “Mobile Technologies and Universal Health Coverage in Kenya” from the i-PUSH program (Nationale Postcode Loterij) (€ 105,000)
Janssens, Wendy (Recipient), 2021
Prize / Grant: Grant › Academic
Research grant from HIF - Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (€ 40,000) on “Digital financing and the preparedness of health SMEs for COVID-19”
Janssens, Wendy (Recipient), 2020
Prize / Grant: Grant › Societal
Research grant from the Amsterdam Public Health – Global Health group (€ 10,000) to organize an international brainstorm workshop on “Maternal mental health and digital technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa”
Janssens, Wendy (Recipient), 2019
Prize / Grant: Grant › Societal

Health insurance in Kenya: A financial and health diaries dataset 2019-2021
Janssens, W. (Creator) & Pradhan, M. (Creator), DataverseNL, 19 Dec 2023
DOI: 10.34894/AKWPIA, https://doi.org/10.34894/AKWPIA
Dataset
Financial and Health Diaries 2012-2013: A year-long weekly panel of farming households in Nigeria and Kenya
Janssens, W. (Creator), Kramer, B. (Creator), van der List, M. (Contributor) & Pap, D. (Data Manager), DataverseNL, 18 Nov 2019
DOI: doi:10.34894/AXFRPB
Dataset
Replication data for: The Impact of Financial Education for Youth in Ghana
Pradhan, M. (Creator), Berry, J. (Contributor) & Karlan, D. (Contributor), Harvard Dataverse, 28 Oct 2020
DOI: doi:10.7910/DVN/GDP2YP
Dataset
Early Childhood Education and Development (ECED) Impact Evaluation, 2010, Round 2
Pradhan, M. (Contributor), Safuro, M. (Owner) & Rizal, H. (Data Manager), World Bank, 29 Oct 2019
https://microdata.worldbank.org/index.php/catalog/3535/study-description
Dataset
Replication data for: Cooperation in Polygynous Households
Kramer, B. (Contributor), Janssens, W. (Contributor), Kebede, B. (Contributor), Barr, A. (Contributor) & Dekker, M. (Contributor), ICPSR, 1 Jan 2019
DOI: 10.3886/e113730, https://doi.org/10.3886%2Fe113730
Dataset

Using Weekly Financial and Health Diaries to Track Health and Income Effects of the COVID-19 Outbreak and Government Response Measures in Rural Kenya
Amanuel Abajobir, Hermann Donfouet, Estelle Sidze, Richard de Groot, Menno Pradhan & Wendy Janssens
11/03/21
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Radio-interview on the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 in Africa
Wendy Janssens
24/04/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
De indirecte gevolgen van corona voor landen in Afrika
Wendy Janssens
24/04/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Giving and taking between husband, wives, and co-wives
Wendy Janssens
29/04/19 → 3/05/19
2 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
Female condoms help women to convince partners to have safer sex: Study
W. Janssens
3/10/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment

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