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Agricultural Commercialization, Land Expansion, and Homegrown Large-Scale Farmers : Insights from Ghana

Chapoto, Antony; Mabiso, Athur; Bonsu, Adwinmea - 2013

qualitative data from in-depth interviews and focus group discussions in Ghana. We analyze their characteristics, ingredients of …

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The Changing Landscape of Agriculture in Ghana : Drivers of Farm Mechanization and its Impacts on Cropland Expansion and Intensification

Houssou, Nazaire - 2015

Ghana have had the intended effects on the country's agricultural sector. Using panel survey data, this paper analyses the … drivers of farm mechanization and its net impacts on cropland expansion and farming system intensification in northern Ghana …

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Cooperation and the Management of Local Common Resources in Remote Rural Communities : Evidence From Odisha, India

Ward, Patrick S.; Alvi, Muzna Fatima; Makhija, Simrin - 2020

It is widely recognized that local management of common pool resources can be more efficient and more effective than private markets or top-down government management, especially in remote rural communities in which the institutions necessary for the enforcement of centrally-imposed regulations...

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Land Reform and Child Health in the Kyrgyz Republic

Kosec, Katrina - 2020

Does the establishment of private property rights to land improve child health and nutrition outcomes? We exploit a natural experiment in the Kyrgyz Republic following the collapse of socialism, whereby the government rapidly liquidated state and collective farms containing 75 percent of...

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Land Constraints and Agricultural Intensification in Ethiopia : A Village-Level Analysis of High-Potential Areas

Headey, Derek D.; Regassa, Mekdim Dereje; … - 2013

Highland Ethiopia is one of the most densely populated regions of Africa and has long been associated with both Malthusian disasters and Boserupian agricultural intensification. This paper explores the race between these two countervailing forces, with the goal of informing two important policy...

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Assessing the Economic Benefits of Sustainable Land Management Practices in Bhutan

Nkonya, Ephraim; Srinivasan, Raghavan; Anderson, Weston; … - 2014

This study was conducted with the objective of determining the returns to sustainable land management (SLM) at the national level in Bhutan. The study first uses satellite data on land change (Landsat) to examine land use change in 1990–2010 and its impact on sediment loading in hydroelectric...

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An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Farmland Protection Policy in China

Li, Man - 2014

Almost two decades have passed since China first enacted legislation to protect farmland from conversion to nonagricultural use. Yet hundreds of thousands of hectares of agricultural land are still developed to urban area each year, raising the question of whether the legislation is effective in...

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The Partially Liberalized Cocoa Sector in Ghana : Producer Price Determination, Quality Control, and Service Provision

Kolavalli, Shashidhara - 2013

The cocoa sector in Ghana is one of few examples of an export commodity sector in an African country that has withstood … Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), the current institutional arrangement is able to pass on a significant share of export prices … to farmers, a key objective of the liberalization of commodity markets in Africa. As Ghana continues to capitalize on its …

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Cities and Rural Transformation : A Spatial Analysis of Rural Youth Livelihoods in Ghana

Diao, Xinshen - 2017

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A Chicken and Maize Situation : The Poultry Feed Sector in Ghana

Andam, Kwaw - 2017

assessment of feed millers in Ghana. The findings establish the importance of feed in the poultry value chain. In addition, they … the short term would be nearly impossible. For the egg industry, however, there is potential for Ghana to export to …

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