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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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Is women's ownership of land a panacea in developing countries? : evidence from land-owning farm households in Malawi
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N. - 2014
Our analysis of a rich representative household survey for Malawi, where patrilineal and matrilineal institutions coexist, suggests that (a) in matrilineal societies the likelihood of cash crop cultivation by a household increases with the extent of land owned (or de facto controlled) by males,...
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Gender, information and the efficiency of household production decisions : an experiment in rural Togo
Apedo-Amah, Marie Christine; Djebbari, Habiba; Ziparo, … - 2020
Why do farm households inefficiently allocate resources across the plots they cultivate? We explore how these production inefficiencies relate to consumption decisions and information sharing within the household. In a lab-in-the-field experiment, male producers allocate too few inputs to their...
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Does violent conflict affect labor supply of farm households? : the Nigerian experience
Odozi, John Chiwuzulum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2021
Nigeria has experienced bouts of violent conflict in different regions since its independence leading to significant loss of life. In this paper, we explore the average effect of exposure to violent conflict generally on labor supply in agriculture. Using a nationally representative panel...
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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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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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