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What are the social impacts of land use restrictions on local communities? Empirical evidence from Costa Rica

Andam, Kwaw S.; Ferraro, Paul J.; Holland, Margaret B. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

Global efforts to reduce deforestation rely heavily on protected areas and land use restrictions. The effect of these restrictions on local communities is currently the subject of heated debate among conservation and development experts. Measuring the social impacts of protected areas is...

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Operational Models for Improving the Targeting Efficiency of Agricultural and Development Policies: A systematic comparison of different estimation methods using out-of-sample test...

Houssou, Nazaire; Zeller, Manfred - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

Accurate targeting is key for the success of any development policy. While a number of factors might explain low targeting efficiency such as governance failure, political interference or lack of political will, this paper focuses on improving indicator-based models that identify poor households...

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Investigation of the factors influencing adoption of GM crops at country level

Hall, Clare; Toma, Luiza; Moran, Dominic - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

With the possible exception of nuclear technology, few scientific breakthroughs have generated the level of emotive debate that has surrounded the roll-out of agricultural biotechnology. Initial discussion about the environmental impacts of agricultural genetic modification, are now frequently...

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Agricultural Trade Flows among Developing Countries: Do Regional Preferential Trade Agreements make a Difference?

Tembo, Gelson; Jayne, Thomas S. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

Regional integration through trade is recognized as one way to foster economic growth and poverty reduction. This paper … to study Zambia’s regional agricultural trade flows and the impact of the SADC Trade Protocol (SADC-TP). Zambia’s volume … of trade is significantly related to most of the standard gravity variables. The results indicate that Zambia has been …

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Estimation of Actual and potential adoption rates and determinants of a new technology not universally known in the population: The case of NERICA rice varieties in Guinea

Diagne, Aliou; Sogbossi, Marie-Josee; Simtowe, Franklin; … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

The NERICA (New Rice for Africa) rice varieties, developed by the Africa Rice Center during the 1990s, are providing hopes for raising the productivity of upland rice farmers in Africa because of their reported high yield potential and adaptability to the African conditions. The varieties are...

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Farm Productivity and Household Market Participation: Evidence from LSMS Data

Rios, Ana R.; Shively, Gerald E.; Masters, William A. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

We analyze the correlation between farm productivity and market participation using comparable household data from Tanzania, Vietnam and Guatemala. Each farm’s input use and output levels provide a within-sample measure of relative productivity, which we relate to that household’s level of...

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Scope Economies of Lending and Collecting Deposits in Microfinance Institutions

Hartarska, Valentina M.; Parmeter, Christopher F. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

While economies of scope of lending and mobilizing deposits in banking are justified theoretically (Diamond, 1984) and found empirically (see Saunders, 1999), in microfinance, the existence and the magnitudes of scope economies has not been investigated. We use a semi parametric smooth...

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Understanding Foreign Direct Investment in the Southern African Development Community: An Analysis Based on Project-Level Data

Mhlanga, Nomathemba; Blalock, Garrick; Christy, Ralph D. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

This paper uses a uniquely rich project-level dataset to analyze determinants and trends of FDI flows to the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. We control for the source of the investment, the sector in which the investment is undertaken, and the investment type in addition to...

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Asymmetric Response of Nutrient Intakes to Cereal Price Changes among the Poor in China: Implications for the Effect of Cereal Price Subsidies on the Poor’s Nutrient Intakes

Shimokawa, Satoru - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

Previous studies commonly assume that the effects of introducing and ending cereal price subsidies on the poor’s nutrient intakes are symmetric. We question the assumption of symmetry and show that the poor’s nutrient intakes respond asymmetrically to declines and increases in the price of...

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A Framework for Assessing of the Impact of Capacity Building

Templeton, Deborah J. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

Capacity building is widely recognised as an important component of most research-for-development activities. However despite the fact that around $15 billion is spent annually on capacity building activities, there has been limited assessment of the economic returns to that investment. In...

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