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To satisfy continued growth in food demand without further degrading already low fertility soils or extensifying onto fragile margins, African farmers must pursue "sustainable agricultural intensification" (SAI). SAI requires adequate use of capital to maintain soil fertility and conserve the...
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This paper uses the recently collected Living Standard Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture Initiative … data sets from five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to provide a comprehensive overview of land and labor market …
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This paper explores the evolution of real agricultural wages, machinery use, and the relationship between farm size and productivity in Vietnam during its dramatic structural transformation over the course of the 1990s and 2000s. Using six rounds of nationally representative household survey...
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Kenyan maize growing households, we find that higher temperatures early in the growing season increase the use of pesticides … investment from productivity-enhancing technologies like fertilizer to adaptive, loss-reducing, defensive inputs like pesticides …
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-income agriculture. Conventional wisdom, that real depreciation achieved through nominal currency devaluation stimulates tradables …
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Developing country food systems have changed dramatically since the Green Revolution period. At the same time, malnutrition still represents a challenge and is now understood to encompass the three simultaneous dimensions of undernourishment, micronutrient deficiencies, and over-nutrition...
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