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Productivity, technical efficiency, and farm size in Paraguayan agriculture
Masterson, Thomas - 2007
This essay assesses the relationship between farm size and productivity. Both parametric and nonparametric methods are used to derive efficiency measures. Smaller farms are found to have higher net farm income per hectare, and to be more technically efficient, than larger farms.
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Small is beautiful: evidence of an inverse relationship between farm size and yield in Turkey
Ünal, Fatma Gül - 2008
This paper examines the relationship between farm size and yield per acre in Turkey using heretofore untapped data from a 2002 farm-level survey of 5,003 rural households. After controlling for village, household, and agroclimatic heterogeneity, a strong inverse relationship between farm size...
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Peeing out of poverty? Human fertilizer and the productivity of farming households
Pettersson, Jan; Wikström, Johan - 2013
In many parts of the world, soils poor in nutrients are farmed with little addition of fertilizer, further depleting the farmland. The very same farmers often face poor sanitary solutions. So-called ecological sanitation aims at providing sanitation and at recycling nutrients as fertilizer. This...
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Access to markets and farm efficiency: A study of rice farms in the Bicol Region, Philippines
DeSilva, Sanjaya - 2011
This paper presents an empirical investigation of the relationship between the spread, spatially and temporally, of market institutions and improvements in the productivity and efficiency of farmers. The data used in this study were collected over two decades in a sample of rice farms in the...
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The impact of extension services on farming households in Western Kenya: A propensity score approach
Deschamps-Laporte, Jean-Philippe - 2013
The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of the adoption of technological packages in agriculture Kenya on the … Government of Kenya. To this end, we collected data on beneficiaries through a survey of 1000 households in the district of … Lugari, in Western Kenya. We use propensity score matching to compute the average treatment effect on the treated. We find …
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Poverty Impact of Rising Maize Prices in Kenya
Levin, Jörgen - 2010
sector. The regional maize trade within East Africa seems to have a role to play, and exploring the impact of total …
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What determines which children work? Empirical evidence from Kenya
Vimefall, Elin - 2011
This paper determines which children work and how much children work in Kenya. The results show that the educational …
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Income diversification and working children
Vimefall, Elin - 2015
During recent years (2004-2008) the proportion of working children in sub-Saharan Africa has increased (Diallo et al … farming households in Kenya, using data from the Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey 2005/2006. Furthermore, we also …
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Income diversification among female-headed farming households
Vimefall, Elin - 2015
In most rural parts of sub-Saharan Africa, production on one's own farm is still the main source of income. However …, we analyze income diversification among female-headed households in rural Kenya. Using a multinomial logit model, we find …
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Limited insurance within the household: Evidence from a field experiment in Kenya
Robinson, Jonathan - 2008
incomplete contract enforceability) in explaining intra-household risk sharing arrangements in Kenya. The experiment followed 142 …
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