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Limited access to finance is one of the major barriers for women entrepreneurs in Africa. This paper presents a model of start-ups in which firms' sales and profits depend on their productivity and access to credit. However, due to the lack of collateral assets such as land, female entrepreneurs...
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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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number and the type of smallholder farmers - members and/or leaders of local producer organizations - invited to a three …
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from smallholder farmers at a pan-territorial price that typically exceeds maize market prices in surplus production areas … effects of the FRA's maize marketing activities on smallholder farm household welfare. Results suggest that FRA activities … have positive direct welfare effects on the small minority of smallholder households that are able to sell to it. However …
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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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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 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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Smallholder agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa is largely exposed to pervasive market failures, translating into missed … procuring inputs and marketing produce, where smallholders face disproportionately high transaction costs. Producer …
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farming practices among women smallholders in Uganda. We find that while supply of improved seeds through local, BRAC trained …
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Investment in improved agricultural inputs is infrequent for smallholder farmers in Africa. One barrier may be limited … sample of smallholder farmers in rural Mozambique. This sample included a set of primary farmers and their closest farming …
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