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"The A stochastic frontier production function is used to estimate agricultural efficiency index. Then, controlling for household characteristics and other exogenous variables, the efficiency index is regressed on the probability of being sick. Estimation is performed using the treatment effect...
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profound. Human activity, including agriculture, has been recognized as one of the reasons for the increased intensity of …. Since agriculture is the main activity of rural people in many endemic areas, it has been suggested that effective malaria … control measures can be devised if attention was paid to the two-way effects of agriculture and malaria. There is the need to …
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Extreme poverty and chronic malnutrition are widespread in rural Tanzania, where smallholder agriculture dominates the … economy. Given the sector's role as the main source of food and livelihood for many malnourished people, agriculture has …, we explore the links between agriculture and nutrition in Tanzania and review the evidence on how these links can be …
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The marketing of farm inputs and outputs has become a major problem for farmers in Pakistan. Farm input supplies are irregular, characterized by shortages and high prices at critical times. This report reviews the input and output policies for cereals implemented in Pakistan during the period...
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in agriculture and two measures of household food security: per adult equivalent calorie availability and dietary … diversity. We use the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index to assess the extent of women’s empowerment in agriculture …
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This paper uses case studies of Bangladesh, Ghana, Rwanda, and Senegal to assess the degree to which the L’Aquila Food Security Initiative (AFSI) has been implemented within the framework of managing for development results (MfDR) and to evaluate progress in various outcomes, including...
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"This paper uses data envelopment analysis and new data from Burkina Faso to test the impact of intercontinental and continental migration on technical efficiency in the production of two cereals—millet and sorghum—by rural households. Econometric evidence supports our theoretical...
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Bioeconomic models can provide powerful insights into the interactions between people and the natural ecosystems on which they depend. For example, bioeconomic models of fisheries have long been used to provide early warnings about the sustainability of harvest levels or the impacts of new...
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