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Food safety standards in the Guatemalan fresh pea sector : the role of financial literacy in technology adoption
Müller, Anna K.; Theuvsen, Ludwig - 2015
The transformation of the global agrifood system is characterized by the increasing importance of food safety and quality standards. This trend is challenging farmers in countries like Guatemala as they lack necessary skills and assets. This study analyzes the determinants of Globalgap adoption...
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Financial literacy and food safety standards in Guatemala : the heterogeneous impact of GlobalGAP on farm income
Müller, Anna K.; Theuvsen, Ludwig - 2015
The transformation of the global agrifood system is characterized by the increasing importance of food safety and quality standards. This trend is challenging farmers in countries like Guatemala, who often lack necessary skills and assets. We contribute to the ongoing discussion about the impact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491638
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Seed market liberalization, hybrid maize adoption, and impacts on smallholder farmers in Tanzania
Kathage, Jonas; Qaim, Matin; Kassie, Menale; Shiferaw, … - 2012
Since the early 1990s, liberalization of the seed market in Tanzania has attracted several foreign companies that now market maize hybrids in the country. In this article, we analyze the impacts of proprietary hybrids on maize yields, production, and household living standards. We build on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235145
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Bt cotton and ecosystem impacts of pesticide reductions
Chellatan Veettil, Prakashan; Krishna, Vijesh V.; Qaim, … - 2014
This paper examines the ecosystem impacts of transgenic Bt cotton technology resulting from reduced chemical pesticide use. Employing unique panel data from smallholder farmers in central and southern India, negative environmental and health effects of pesticide use are quantified with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010430776
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How to make farming and agricultural extension more nutrition-sensitive : evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Kenya
Ogutu, Sylvester Ochieng; Fongar, Andrea; Gödecke, Theda; … - 2018
We analyze how agricultural extension can be made more effective in terms of increasing smallholder farmers' adoption …, we implemented several extension treatments and evaluated their effects on the adoption of beans that were biofortified … that effective nutrition training through agricultural extension services is possible. Providing marketing training did not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011771812
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Fairtrade, agrochemical input use, and effects on human health and the environment
Sellare, Jorge; Meemken, Eva-Maria; Qaim, Matin - 2020
It is often assumed that voluntary sustainability standards - such as Fairtrade - could not only improve the socioeconomic wellbeing of smallholder farmers in developing countries but could also help to reduce negative health and environmental impacts of agricultural production. The empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012147121
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Paying for gender? : The gender price gap in Central Kenyan vegetable markets
Depenbusch, Lutz - 2017
We analyze the gender price gap (GPG) in Central Kenyan vegetable markets. Exploiting differences in the combination of the gender of the household head, the person controlling production, and the seller, we control for other gender related influences. We cannot identify a significant GPG for...
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Social networks and farmer exposure to improved crop varieties in Tanzania
Muange, Elijah Nzula; Schwarze, Stefan; Qaim, Matin - 2014
have direct contacts to extension officers, suggesting that information flows through informal channels can support but not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010430773
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Spatial patterns of organic agriculture adoption : evidence from Honduras
Wollni, Meike; Andersson, Camilla - 2013
agriculture can provide a means to break the downward spiral of resource degradation and poverty. We use original survey data to … analyze the factors influencing the decision to convert to organic agriculture. Previous studies have emphasized the role of … spatial patterns in the diffusion and adoption of agricultural technologies in general and organic agriculture in particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235116
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Big constraints or small returns? : explaining, nonadaption of hybrid maize in Tanzania
Kathage, Jonas; Qaim, Matin; Kassie, Menale; Shiferaw, … - 2013
Modern technologies are often not widely adopted among smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa. Several adoption constraints have been discussed in the literature, including limited access to information. Using survey data from farmers in Tanzania and the average treatment effect framework, we...
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