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--Venture capital and the transformation of private R&D for agriculture /Gregory D. Graff, Felipe de Fueiredo Silva, David …"The challenges facing agriculture are plenty. Along with the world's growing population and diminishing amounts of … agriculture keep pace with earth's social, population, and ecological changes. In the last 50 years, mechanical, biological, and …
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rich panel data from farms in Tanzania and Uganda, we estimate our model using a flexible specification in which we allow …
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unable for institutional reasons to diversify their loan risks either within agriculture or across other geographically …
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) emissions from agriculture. In a step towards a full evaluation of the impacts, it uses a counterfactual global model scenario … that currently tax agriculture have high emission intensities. Policies that directly reduce emission intensities yield …
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The introduction of new technologies in agriculture can foster structural transformation by freeing workers who find …
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We study the impacts of a rural development program designed to boost the income of the smallfarm sector in Nicaragua. Exploiting the random assignment of treatment, we find statistically and economically significant impacts on gross farm income and investment in productive farm capital. Using...
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The expansion in farm size is an important contributor to agricultural productivity in developed countries, but the reallocation process is hindered in less developed economies. How do distortions to factor reallocation affect farm dynamics and agricultural productivity? We develop a model of...
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Agricultural extension programs often train a few farmers and count on diffusion through social networks for the innovation to spread. However, if markets are imperfectly integrated, this may also inflict negative externalities. In a two-step experiment of an agronomy training program among...
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education, I find that education increases household consumption, especially in agriculture and in nonfarm self …-employment activities. I also provide evidence that education increases the probability of working in agriculture. These results, initially … surprising, suggest that returns to education in agriculture are positive, provided that the skills taught at school are suitable …
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We use a field experiment in Tanzania to compare the effectiveness on learning of two teacher performance pay systems …
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