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This paper analyzes the household level impact of an increase in price of major tradable staple foods in a cross section of developing countries, using nationally representative household surveys. We find that, in the short term, poorer households and households with limited asset endowments and...
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Ethiopia has experienced high food prices, especially since 2005. This paper examines the welfare impacts of rising …, compared to the earlier period of 1994 - 2004. The results have shown that the price hikes in recent years increased welfare …). The welfare gains further improved to 18% for the high price period and 7.2% for the low price period with substitution …
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This study adopted Randomized Control Trial to examine the impact of seed voucher system on farming households’ welfare …’ welfare if strongly pursue. …
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Ethiopia has experienced high food prices since early 2004. This paper examines the welfare impacts of rising food … years (between 2004 and 2009) increased welfare gain of rural households by about 10.5 percent on aggregate, as compared to … less than 1 percent for the reference period (between 1994 and 2004). The welfare gains further improved to 18 percent …
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increase welfare and help farm households escape out of income poverty. An additional year of schooling in a household …The impact of education on farmers' choice of activities and household welfare are modelled and estimated using farm … household data for rural Ethiopia. We find that education has significant effects on household welfare. Schooling increases the …
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instruments and impacts on farm return and welfare. Unlike other studies this paper models farming response to payments in terms … government objective, for instance risk reduction versus farmers’ welfare. …
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The supermarket revolution has arrived in China and is spreading as fast as or faster than anywhere in the world. As the demand for vegetables, fruit, nuts and other high valued products have risen, urban retailers are finding new venues seized on niche and today have over $55 billion in sales,...
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Agricultural research in marginal dry areas can contribute to reducing poverty through the development of technological … implications on where and how research must be targeted to have impact on poverty. Households less endowed in land and natural … discuss the pathways that these different groups can undertake to escape poverty, with emphasis on those that use agricultural …
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Vulnerability to poverty is a major problem in the rural areas of Sub Saharan Africa. Rural Households are confronted … contribution of indigenous fruit trees towards reducing vulnerability to food insecurity and poverty. The methodology used is a …
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rural areas and the poor, although they should be beneficial not only for overall growth, but also rural growth and poverty …
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