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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
procuring inputs and marketing produce, where smallholders face disproportionately high transaction costs. Producer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012291016
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290639
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629134
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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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How soon is now? : evidence of present bias from convex time budget experiments
Balakrishnan, Uttara; Haushofer, Johannes; Jakiela, Pamela - 2016
in Kenya in which we elicit time and risk preference parameters from 291 participants, using convex time budgets and …
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Sooner rather than later: social networks and technology adoption
Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Satish, Varun; Sulaiman, Munshi; … - 2021
Using data from a randomised experiment in Kenya, we estimate the causal effect of social networks on technology …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517246
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Growing markets through business training for female entrepreneurs : a market-level randomized experiment in Kenya
McKenzie, David J.; Puerto, Susana - 2017
of their unassisted competitors. We test this possibility using a two-stage randomized experiment in Kenya which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011625384
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A firm of one's own : experimental evidence on credit constraints and occupational choice
Brudevold-Newman, Andrew; Honorati, Maddalena; Jakiela, … - 2017
We conducted a randomized evaluation of two labor market interventions targeted to young women aged 18 to 19 in three of Nairobi's poorest neighborhoods. One treatment offered participants a bundled intervention designed to simultaneously relieve credit and human capital constraints; a second...
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