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Incentives to labour migration and agricultural productivity: The Bayesian perspective
Djuikom, Marie Albertine - 2018
Understanding how internal labour migration affects the agricultural sector is important for all developing countries whose markets do not work well or are non-existent. In fact, even if the movement out of the agricultural sector can be viewed as a process to reach development for many African...
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Commercialization in agriculture in rural Viet Nam, 2006-14
McKay, Andy; Cazzuffi, Chiara; Perge, Emilie - 2015
livelihood. Moreover, this agriculture has become increasingly commercialized over time. This paper uses the five wave VARHS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418582
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Can commercial farming promote rural dynamism in sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Mozambique
Glover, Steven M.; Jones, Sam - 2016
The impact of large commercial farms on neighbouring smallholders in low-income sub-Saharan Africa remains controversial. Bringing evidence to a largely anecdotal debate, we deploy a dataset covering all commercial farms in Mozambique, linking them to a nationally representative survey of...
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Weathering shocks: The effects of weather shocks on farm input use in sub-Saharan Africa
Nsabimana, Aimable - 2022
There has been much discussion on climate change and its adverse effects on agriculture, including excessive loss of … food production. In regions such as sub-Saharan Africa, where agriculture is the major source of household livelihoods … rich Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture dataset, I find that the intensity of chemical …
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Climate shocks, agriculture, and migration in Nepal: Disentangling the interdependencies
Arslan, Aslihan; Egger, Eva-Maria; Mane, Erdgin; … - 2021
an ex-ante measure. In this paper, we disentangle the direct effect of weather shocks on income from agriculture from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012705329
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Gender divide in agricultural productivity in Mozambique
Morgado, João; Salvucci, Vincenzo - 2016
In this study we analyze the gender gap in agricultural productivity in Mozambique applying the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition approach on data from four agricultural surveys between 2002 and 2012. We find that female-headed households are on average substantially less productive (about 20 per...
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Potential biofuel feedstocks and production in Zambia
Samboko, Paul C.; Subakanya, Mitelo; Dlamini, Cliff - 2017
The need for energy security and climate change mitigation have increased blending mandates worldwide; in Southern Africa, demand for biofuels could increase following South Africa's planned blending mandates. However, land constraints limit local industry expansion, with demand likely to be met...
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The impact of commercialization of rice on household welfare in rural Viet Nam
Cazzuffi, Chiara; McKay, Andrew D.; Perge, Emilie - 2018
household income and food consumption. The results also show heterogeneous effects across different types of households, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943935
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Environmental and gender impacts of land tenure regularization in Africa: Pilot evidence from Rwanda
Ali, Daniel Ayalew; Deininger, Klaus; Goldstein, Markus - 2011
Although recent developments greatly increased interest in African land tenure, few models to address these issues at the required scale have been identified or evaluated. Rwanda's nation-wide land tenure regularization programme is of great interest. A discontinuity design with spatial fixed...
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Climate change, rice production, and migration in Vietnamese households
Baronchelli, Adelaide; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2018
This paper analyses the relationship between climate and migration in rural households in Viet Nam. We propose an instrumental variable approach that controls for the potential endogeneity between crop production and migration using monthly minimum temperatures in the growing season as an...
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