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was implemented in Malawi over a 12-month period, randomly assigning cassava-producing households to one of four … additionally demonstrates likely gross overestimation in international and ministerial statistics on cassava yields in Malawi. For …
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This paper analyzes changes in agricultural productivity gender gaps in Cote d'Ivoire between 2008 and 2016 using …, but it is particularly remarkable for export crop productivity, likely due to increased adoption of fertilizer and … commercial agriculture and have witnessed greater reductions in land area compared with their male counterparts. The results show …
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regional agricultural productivity to changes in water salinity. To do so, it utilizes several local and global data sets on … water quality and agricultural productivity and a model that isolates the impact of exogenous changes in water salinity on …
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The 2014-15 Ebola epidemic took a devastating human and economic toll on three West African countries, of which Liberia was perhaps the hardest hit. The pathways through which the crisis affected economic activity in these largely agrarian societies remain poorly understood. To study these...
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productivity. The fact that social interactions mainly occur within castes in rural India provides tools to show that the observed … correlation between farm productivity and neighbors' education is likely to be a spillover effect. In particular, there are no …
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The paper revisits the traditional transport-agricultural growth nexus. Connectivity is particularly challenging for small island developing states, such as the Comoros, where domestic markets are limited and transport and transaction costs tend to be high. Using household survey data from...
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