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Potential Impacts of a Green Revolution in Africa – the Case of Ghana

Breisinger, Clemens; Diao, Xinshen; Thurlow, James; … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

Agricultural growth in Africa has accelerated, yet most of this growth has been driven by land expansion. Land … green revolution happen in Africa. …

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Synergistic Green and White Revolution: Evidence from Kenya and Uganda

Jia, Xiangping - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

Africa, subsidizing fertilizer is not sufficient; there exists multiple trajectories to achieve in food security …

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The determinants of technology adoption: a case of the rice sector in Tanzania

Nakano, Yuko; Kajisa, Kei - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

Using an extensive household-level data set collected in Tanzania, this paper investigates the determinants of technology adoption in rice cultivation by focusing on the role of credit. We find that credit enhances fertilizer use and the adoption of labor-intensive agronomic practices such as...

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Evolution of Crop-dairy Production Systems in South India from 1971 to 2002

Yaguchi, Yue; Kajisa, Kei - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

It is widely believed that not only a Green Revolution in a crop sector but also a White Revolution in a dairy sector … existing literature. The interaction is important in that the dairy sector provides manure to crop production while the crop …

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China Pear Value Chain: Implication for Smallholders

Huang, Zuhui; Zhang, Jing; Chen, Kevin Z. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

as cost-benefit analysis of smallholders, we found that: value-added of each value chain are different, smallholders … hardly benefit from value chains of Hebei case. Farmer cooperatives are helpful for smallholders in terms of costs reducing …

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Smallholder Incomes, Vegetable Marketing and Food Safety: Evidence from China

Huang, Jikun; Zhi, Huayong; Huang, Zhurong; Jia, Xiangping - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

Great changes have taken place in China’s agricultural and food markets in the past several decades. However, the impact of the transformation brought by modern supply chains on the welfare of farmers in China is unclear. This paper attempts to understand whether or not the recent changes in...

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Factors Influencing the Success Potential in Smallholder Irrigation Projects of South Africa: A Principal Component Regression

Magingxa, Litha Light; Alemu, Zerihun Gudeta; … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

holder irrigation projects as they apply in the South African context. The study was conducted in six smallholder irrigation … smallholder irrigation projects. …

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Farm size and Distance-to-Field in Scattered Rice Field Areas:with Integration of Plot and Farm Data

Yagi, Hironori - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

An empirical bid-rent model is applied with a multinomial logit (MNL) for analyses of rice production in Japan, which is characterized by cultivation by producers working with various farm sizes. By combining plot and farm databases, the distances to respective field plots from potential holders...

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Climate Change, Perceptions and the Heterogeneity of Adaptation and Rice Productivity: Evidence from Indonesian Villages

Futoshi, Yamauchi; Hiroyuki, Takeshima; Reno, Dewina; … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

decisions: adjusting planting timing in response to delays in the onset of rainy season while changing crop variety responding …

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The Impact of Agricultural Technology Adoption on Poverty: The case of NERICA rice varieties in Benin

Adekambi, Souleimane Adeyemi; Diagne, Aliou; Simtowe, … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

varieties for Africa (NERICA). The NERICAs are a group of rice varieties developed by the Africa Rice Centre during the 1990s …

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