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Biofuel subsidies : an open-economy analysis

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Wall, … - 2009

We present a general equilibrium analysis of biofuel subsidies in an open-economy context. In the small-country case, when a Pigouvian tax on conventional fuels such as crude is in place, the optimal biofuel subsidy is zero. When the tax on crude is not available as a policy option, however, a...

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Food for fuel : the effect of the US biofuel mandate on poverty in India

Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Hélène; Ural … - 2018

More than 40% of US grain is used for energy due to the Renewable Fuels Mandate (RFS). There are no studies of the global distributional consequences of this purely domestic policy. Using micro-level survey data, we trace the effect of the RFS on world food prices and their impact on household...

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Building trust in rural producer organizations in Senegal : results from a randomized controlled trial

Bernard, Tanguy; Frölich, Markus; Landmann, Andreas; … - 2015

Trust is crucial for successful collective action. A prime example is collective commercialization of agricultural produce through producer organizations. We conduct a cluster-randomized controlled trial in rural Senegal in which we vary the number and the type of smallholder farmers - members...

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Can crop purchase programs reduce poverty and improve welfare in rural communities? : evidence from the food reserve agency in Zambia

Fung, Winnie; Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis Saweda; Mason, Nicole - 2015

The last decade has seen a resurgence of parastatal crop marketing institutions in sub-Saharan Africa, many of which cite improving food security and incomes as key goals. However, there is limited empirical evidence on the welfare effects of these programs. This article considers one such...

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Rural households in a changing climate

Baez, Javier E.; Kronick, Dorothy; Mason, Andrew D. - 2012

This paper argues that climate change poses two distinct, if related, sets of challenges for poor rural households: challenges related to the increasing frequency and severity of weather shocks and challenges related to long-term shifts in temperature, rainfall patterns, water availability, and...

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Does off-farm labor relax farmers' credit constraints? : evidence from longitudinal data for Vietnam

Stampini, Marco (contributor); Davis, Benjamin (contributor) - 2008

We examine the relationship between participation in non-agricultural labor activities and farming production decisions, focusing on the use of inputs. In particular, we are interested in the hypothesis that income from non-agricultural labor relaxes credit constraints. Using longitudinal data...

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Smallholders, market failures, and agricultural production: evidence from India

Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2020

smallholders but am unable to do so for non-smallholders. This leads to important differences in production behavior: smallholders … reallocate labor across activities less in response to intra-seasonal crop price changes than do non-smallholders. A … counterfactual exercise indicates smallholders could increase revenue by almost nine percent if they were to reallocate labor …

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Strengthening producer organizations to increase market access of smallholder farmers in Uganda

Hill, Ruth Vargas; Maruyama Sasaki, Eduardo; Olapade, Markus - 2020

procuring inputs and marketing produce, where smallholders face disproportionately high transaction costs. Producer …

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How sustainable are benefits from extension for smallholder farmers? : evidence from a randomized phase-out of the BRAC program in Uganda

Fishman, Ram; Smith, Stephen C.; Bobić, Vida; … - 2017

farming practices among women smallholders in Uganda. We find that while supply of improved seeds through local, BRAC trained …

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Small-scale farming and food security : the enabling role of cash transfers in South Africa's former homelands

Fintel, Dieter von; Pienaar, Louw - 2016

Cash transfers successfully alleviate poverty in many developing countries. South Africa is a case in point, implementing one of the largest unconditional cash transfer programmes internationally, and with substantial benefits to household well-being along multiple dimensions. Yet, grants...

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