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Climate change has brought large instabilities in agricultural systems, in terms of both crop yield and net farm income. Climate smart agriculture is one of the innovative methods that tries to build resilience in agricultural systems. A study is conducted in Raichur district of Karnataka state...
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In this paper we empirically analyse the impact of mothers' non-farm entrepreneurship on child secondary school enrollment in rural Ghana. We use nationally representative quantitative data from the sixth round of the Ghana Living Standard Survey (GLSS) and qualitative data from focus group...
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F&V intake, household food security, and anemia levels for individual women caregivers of childbearing age. Using a … tool to measure household food insecurity is robust and applicable in other contexts. We also show, using robust …
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in Mon State as a whole. The survey included a household questionnaire and a community survey, and gathered information … on demographics, all economic aspects of the household, and access to infrastructure and services at the community level …
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subsistence. Given erratic rainfall and low soil fertility, most smallholders fail to produce enough food to meet household … also affect activity-incomes and thereby household welfare. In this study, I use new household- and individual … staple and cash cropping, which on average makes up about 90 percent of household income. In fact, empowerment is the only …
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In developing countries labor is a crucial input for income-generating and household production activities, which makes … Institute/International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center) household survey implemented by the Association of Ethiopian …
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find a positive impact of insurance adoption on household investment in production, especially higher-risk activities …
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order to assess the role of empowerment in agricultural production, we use new household- and individual-level WEAI data …
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the sector's value added in 2011. The average farm household generated 646,500 CFA francs from farming in that same year …
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Growing inequality has become an important concern in many countries. One of the ways that inequality is perpetuated is through differential market access across regions. This research deals with one of the primary determinants of regional inequality manifested in terms of market access. Nepal...
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