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In this paper, we address the question of the agricultural market integration of Cambodia within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and its other top trading partners. Focusing on agricultural trade, we use two indicators, namely, “Trade Potential” and “Competition...
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In many Sub-Saharan countries, farmers cannot meet the growing urban demand for higher quality products, leading to increasing dependency on imports. While the literature has focused on production-side constraints to enhancing smallholder farmers’ output quality, there is scarce evidence of...
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Bangladesh is extremely vulnerable to the impact of climate change because it is a low-lying, flat country subject to … its livelihood. The goal of this research was to examine the likely impacts of climate change on agriculture in Bangladesh … four general circulation models (GCMs) to evaluate the impact of climate change on agriculture in Bangladesh by 2050. We …
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Using data from multiple sources, we show that in Bangladesh, the increase in real wages, particularly female wages … to shift in favor of workers) has arrived in Bangladesh. Rising wages are likely a result of a combination of more ample …
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Bangladesh, estimates suggest that the country’s potential rice-fish production system encompasses between two and three million … improvement. This paper provides a characterization of the diverse and changing nature of rice-fish systems in Bangladesh by … incomes in Bangladesh. Findings also suggest that although the emergent innovation system around these rice-fish systems is …
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The national food system of Bangladesh has made substantial progress since experiencing famine in 1974, soon after …
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randomized control trials in rural Bangladesh, with treatment arms including cash transfers, a food ration, or a mixed food and …
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market and may receive fewer benefits. Despite the prevailing perception in rural Bangladesh that women do not participate in … services in Bangladesh. We find that women benefit from managing and sometimes owning machinery services, as well as from the …
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This paper analyzes poverty dynamics in rural Bangladesh using a nationally representative panel dataset of 5,260 rural … and transient poverty identified in this study hold promise for sustained poverty reduction in rural Bangladesh …
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The paper argues that much of the farm-nonfarm labor mobility in rural Bangladesh is in nature an intergenerational … occupational choice-induced change rather than a sectoral shift within the current generation. Bangladesh has a large share of …
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