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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 …
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Smallholders, market failures, and agricultural production: evidence from India
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2020
Market completeness has important implications for household behavior. I firmly reject complete markets for 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290639
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Improving access to savings through mobile money : experimental evidence from African smallholder farmers
Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2019
Investment in improved agricultural inputs is infrequent for smallholder farmers in Africa. One barrier may be limited … interest was being paid. It also increased agricultural investment in fertilizer, although there was no change in investment in … other complementary inputs that were not directly targeted by the intervention, unlike fertilizer. These results suggest …
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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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Strengthening producer organizations to increase market access of smallholder farmers in Uganda
Hill, Ruth Vargas; Maruyama Sasaki, Eduardo; Olapade, Markus - 2020
Smallholder agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa is largely exposed to pervasive market failures, translating into missed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012291016
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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 …
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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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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
Many development programs are based on short-term interventions, either because of external funding constraints or because it is assumed that impacts persist post program termination ("sustainability"). Using a novel randomized phase-out research method, we provide experimental tests of the...
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Modernizing smallholder agriculture and achieving food security : an exploration in machinery services and labor reallocation in China
Zou, Baoling; Mishra, Ashok K. - 2024
Worldwide, most farms are small and family-operated. This study discusses the future of smallholder agriculture in China, where most farms are small, and farms' parcels are fragmented. The study puts forward a framework of vertical division of labor and specialized production in agriculture. We...
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The extractive industry's impact on economic growth in SADC countries
Nhabinde, Simeão; Heshmati, Almas - 2020
providing evidence of a resource curse. Extractive industries in South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia have positive direct …
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