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Can Crop Purchase Programs Reduce Poverty and Improve Welfare in Rural Communities? Evidence from the Food Reserve Agency in Zambia
Fung, Winnie - 2015
from smallholder farmers at a pan-territorial price that typically exceeds maize market prices in surplus production areas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014037
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Small-Scale Farming and Food Security : The Enabling Role of Cash Transfers in South Africa's Former Homelands
von Fintel, Dieter - 2016
Cash transfers successfully alleviate poverty in many developing countries. South Africa is a case in point, implementing one of the largest unconditional cash transfer programmes internationally, and with substantial benefits to household well-being along multiple dimensions. Yet, grants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978169
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Concept and Unintended Consequences of Weather Index Insurance : The Case of Mexico
Fuchs, Alan - 2013
, in case of catastrophic events food prices can potentially inflate with indemnity payments at the expense of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091889
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Do Walmart Supercenters Improve Food Security?
Courtemanche, Charles - 2018
This paper examines the effect of Walmart Supercenters, which lower food prices and expand food availability, on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915733
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Producer Protection Legislation and Termination Damages in the Presence of Contracting Frictions
Wu, Steven Y. - 2009
This study models producer protection legislation that would grant growers the right to claim damages (PPLD) if their contracts are prematurely terminated. In the absence of contracting frictions that prevent contractors from redesigning contracts to accommodate exogenous policy changes, PPLD...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156403
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Impacts of Rural Electrification in Rwanda
Bensch, Gunther - 2011
Rural electrification is believed to contribute to the achievement of the MDG. In this paper, we investigate electrification impacts on different indicators. We use household data that we collected in Rwanda in villages with and without electricity access. We account for self-selection and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117194
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Rural Windfall or a New Resource Curse? Coca, Income, and Civil Conflict in Colombia
Angrist, Joshua D. - 2007
Natural and agricultural resources for which there is a substantial black market, such as coca, opium, and diamonds, appear especially likely to be exploited by the parties to a civil conflict. Even legally traded commodities such as oil and timber have been linked to civil war. On the other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776917
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Agricultural Extension and Technology Adoption for Food Security : Evidence from Uganda
Pan, Yao - 2015
This paper evaluates causal impacts of a large-scale agricultural extension program for smallholder women farmers on food security in Uganda through a regression discontinuity design that exploits an arbitrary distance-to-branch threshold for village program eligibility. We find eligible farmers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016288
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Entrepreneurship and the Reallocation of African Farmers
Naudé, Wim - 2015
African agriculture's importance for sustainable development is well appreciated. Indeed, recent years have seen a … physical resources across occupations and space, and without which agriculture and industrial development, and hence structural … agriculture and focus on the literature on entrepreneurship in Africa's structural transformation. I present a conceptual model to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011139
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Air Pollution and Agricultural Productivity in a Developing Country
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2023
I document negative externalities of air pollution in the Indian agricultural sector. Using variation in pollution induced by changes in wind across years, I show that higher levels of pollution lead to decreased agricultural productivity, with large changes in productivity being common. The...
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