Faculty Profiles - Mark Langworthy

[Mark Langworthy]
Dr. Langworthy's main research interests include the microeconomic analysis of agricultural households, analysis of food security issues, and study of local community resource management institutions. He has undertaken field research of rural households in several countries in Africa and Asia which focused on identifying factors which constrain households' ability to increase their incomes. This research examined patterns of variation in access to productive resources across households, how those resources are utilized in agricultural activities, and how local land, labor, credit, and water institutions affect the allocation decisions of households.

Extensive research undertaken in the Cape Verde Islands of West Africa examined the performance of local irrigation networks with regard to the efficiency of water use within the network and the distribution of benefits among network members. Dr. Langworthy has helped design project monitoring and evaluation systems in Cape Verde and Bangladesh which aim to measure the project impacts on beneficiary groups through a variety of different survey techniques.

Frisvold, George, B., Kathleen Fernicola, and Mark Langworthy. "Market Returns, Infrastructure, and the Supply and Demand for Extension Services," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, August 2001.

Langworthy, Mark W. and Timothy J. Finan. Waiting for Rain: Agriculture and the Ecological Imbalance in Cape Verde. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1997.

Claude Bart, Karen Coelho, Kathleen Fernicola, David Halmo, and Mark Langworthy. Cross-Country Comparisons of Food and Livelihood Security: A Synthesis of Rapid Food Security Assessments Conducted by CARE. Atlanta, CARE, 1996.

Langworthy, Mark W. and Timothy J. Finan "Induced Change and Public Choice: Institutional Innovation in Small-Scale Irrigation in Cape Verde." Local Irrigation in Worldwide Perspective. Jonathan Mabry, ed. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1995.

Langworthy, Mark. "Measurements of Economic Viability in Cape Verde." Journal of Farming Systems Research-Extension 2(1991).

Finan, Timothy J., Mark W. Langworthy, and Roger W. Fox. "Institutional Change and Smallholder Innovation: An Example from the Portuguese Dairy Sector." Economic Development and Cultural Change 38(July 1990):699-712.