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Moving off the farm : land institutions to facilitate structural transformation and agricultural productivity growth in China
Deininger, Klaus W.; Jin, Songqing; Fang, Xia - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009500299
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Gender differences in agricultural productivity in Côte d'Ivoire : changes in determinants and distributional composition over the past decade
Donald, Aletheia; Lawin, Gabriel; Rouanet, Léa - 2020
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228280
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Salt of the earth : quantifying the impact of water salinity on global agricultural productivity
Russ, Jason; Zaveri, Esha D.; Damania, Richard; … - 2020
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228769
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Impact of the West African Ebola epidemic on agricultural production and rural welfare : evidence from Liberia
De La Fuente, Alejandro; Jacoby, Hanan; Lawin, … - 2019
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051875
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Education spillovers in farm productivity : revisiting the evidence
Gille, Véronique - 2019
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008386
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Hidden treasures in the Comoros : the impact of inter-island connectivity improvement on agricultural production
Iimi, Atsushi - 2019
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012113851
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Generating gridded agricultural gross domestic product for Brazil : a comparison of methodologies
Thomas, Timothy S.; You, Liangzhi; Wood-Sichra, Ulrike; … - 2019
This paper examines two new methods to generate gridded agricultural Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and compares the results with a traditional method. In the case of Brazil, these two new methods of spatial disaggregation and cross-entropy outperform the prediction of agricultural GDP from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114017
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The impact of climate change on African agriculture : a Ricardian approach
Maddison, David (contributor); Manley, Marita (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003617681
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A second look at the pesticides initiative program : evidence from Senegal
Jaud, Melise; Cadot, Olivier - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009383227
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How prices and macroeconomic policies affect agricultural supply and the environment
Mamingi, Nlandu - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000943399