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irrigation dams cannot be known a priori due to potential health costs, the empirical evidence shows that current agricultural … irrigation water. Households with poor health are less likely to adopt productivity-enhancing as well as resource …-conserving technologies, which are crucial for achieving the ultimate goal of sustainable agricultural development. The ensuing sickness has …
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Igniting farm productivity can support growth and job creation in Kosovo. Agricultural production, in real terms, has … been decreasing in Kosovo since 2009 but employment has not changed much. This note examines drivers of agricultural … productivity and its growth in Kosovo, and implied constraints on growth of agriculture, using farm-level data. The results of the …
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with population growth during the last two decades is attributed to land degradation and productivity decline resulting in …
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key drivers of gender gaps in agriculture productivity in Nigeria: women use fewer inputs and have limited participation …'s participation in the crop value chains for which FMARD provides input support; (ii) quantify the gender gaps in agricultural input … use, extension services, and labor productivity; (iii) examine women's participation and inputs use against budget …
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"The study develops a new method to measure the impacts of climate change on agriculture called the Agro-Ecological Zone (AEZ) Model. A multinomial logit is estimated to predict the probability of each AEZ in each district. The average percentage of cropland and average crop net revenue are...
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. However, adoption of IPM may reduce profitability if it also lowers overall productivity, or induces more intensive use of … production functions, and frontier production estimation. All of their results suggest that the productivity of IPM rice farming … is not significantly different from the productivity of conventional farming. Since IPM reduces pesticide costs with no …
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vegetables and organic products - and to identify strategic agriculture infrastructure investments. This report provides … information and analysis on opportunities for further development of organic products. The report also contains recommendations … Project (SACEP). This TA has identified a number of interventions to support further development of Samoan organic products …
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This sourcebook is intended to be a ready reference for practitioners (including World Bank stakeholders, clients in borrowing countries, and World Bank project leaders) seeking state-of-the-art information about good land management approaches, innovations for investments, and close monitoring...
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