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Farmer hiring of agricultural machinery services is common in South Asia. Informal fee-for-service arrangements have positioned farmers so they can access use of machinery to conduct critical, time-sensitive agricultural tasks like land preparation, seeding, irrigation, harvesting and post-...
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Ghana is one of a few African countries where agricultural mechanization has recently undergone rapid development. Except for places in the forest zone where stumps are still an issue in fields, tractors used for plowing and maize shelling have been widely adopted even among small farmers....
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The adoption of climate-adaptive agricultural technologies (CAATs) for extensive (outdoor) agriculture is stalled by … one way of helping bridge these gaps is for providers and users of CAATs for extensive agriculture to learn from the … practices of those in CAATs for intensive (indoor) agriculture. Indoor CAATs are already receiving significant private …
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increase on Asian agriculture that traditionally used family labor intensively on small farms. The empirical evidence supports … inducing the substitution of labor by machines in agriculture. However, this process is less successful in the countries that … near future, Asian agriculture can face a challenge in maintaining domestic food production. Given the large size of …
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simulation models of global agriculture to do long-run scenario analysis of the effects of climate change and various adaptation …
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Heterogeneity in factor endowments and the degree of specializations induced by comparative advantages are among the crucial factors that affect the overall productivity of the economy. Few studies, however, investigate what strengthens such endowment-related specialization patterns in the...
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Existing reviews on agriculture and nutrition consider limited evidence and focus on impact size, rather than impact … one of the agriculture-nutrition pathways. Agricultural development plays a role in improving nutrition. However … agriculture — especially by women — competes with time needed for resting, childcare, and food preparation and can have unintended …
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Pakistan performs poorly with respect to gender equality, women's empowerment, and other gender-related indicators. Few studies in Pakistan measure the multiple dimensions of empowerment along which women are marginalized or disenfranchised, particularly in the country's rural areas. Even fewer...
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There are concerns that increasing women’s engagement in agriculture could have a negative effect on nutrition because … agriculture adversely affects maternal and child nutrition, and whether the lack of women’s time in reproductive work leads to … long hours in agriculture reduces women’s dietary diversity score in Ghana and nonpoor women’s in Mozambique. However, for …
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