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Calling for nexus thinking in Africa's energy planning
De Strasser, Lucia - 2017
competition. The situation in Africa is particularly problematic, as the continent lags behind all others in terms of quality and …
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Digitalization for energy access in Sub-Saharan Africa : challenges, opportunities and potential business models
Mazzoni, Davide - 2019
collection, are already giving a big contribution in fostering the access to electricity and clean cooking in Sub-Saharan Africa …. This paper gives an overview on the actual state of energy access in Sub-Saharan Africa and the current technologies used … Africa, financial aspects and market analysis. The perspective of both companies and end-users have been considered here. The …
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Cuando un análisis de corto plazo no es un enfoque cortoplacista : impacto de la adopción tecnológica agropecuaria en Bolivia
Aramburu, Julián; González Flores, Mario; Salazar, Lina; … - 2014
This paper presents the results of an impact evaluation for the CRIAR program, implemented in rural areas in Bolivia. The objective of this program is to increase the agricultural income and food security of smallholder farmers through productivity gains that result from technological adoption....
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Food security and productivity impacts of technology adoption in small subsistence farmers in Bolivia
Salazar, Lina; Aramburu, Julián; González-Flores, Mario; … - 2015
CRIAR is to increase smallholders' agricultural income and food security through productivity improvements triggered by …
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Seguridad alimentaria y productividad impactos de la adopción tecnológica en pequeños agricultores de subsistencia en Bolivia
Salazar, Lina; Aramburu, Julián; González-Flores, Mario; … - 2015
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Are small farms really more productive than large farms?
Aragon, Fernando M.; Restuccia, Diego; Rud, Juan Pablo - 2021
This paper shows that using yields may not be informative of the relationship between farm size and productivity in the context of small-scale farming. This occurs because, in addition to productivity, yields pick up size-dependent market distortions and decreasing returns to scale. As a result,...
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Supporting Indian farmers : price support or direct income/investment support?
Gulati, Ashok; Chatterjee, Tirtha; Hussain, Siraj - 2018
With increasing farm distress in the wake of falling farm prices in 2017, the State Government of Madhya Pradesh (GoMP) came out with an innovative scheme called Bhavantar Bhugtan Yojana (BBY), a price deficiency payment (PDP) scheme, to support farmers. It covered eight Kharif crops in 2017-18...
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Understanding the role of supply and demand factors in the global wheat market : a Structural Vector Autoregressive approach
Valenti, Daniele; Bertoni, Danilo; Cavicchioli, Daniele; … - 2023
We present a Bayesian structural Vector Autoregressive model of the global wheat market to examine the relative importance of supply and demand shocks, which are interpreted as the fundamental driving forces of wheat price. To our knowledge, this is the first SVAR analysis that jointly considers...
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Economic impacts of El Niño Southern Oscillation : evidence from the Colombian coffee market
Bastianin, Andrea; Lanza, Alessandro; Manera, Matteo - 2016
We develop a structural econometric model to study the impacts of El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on Colombian coffee production, exports and price. Our empirical specification is consistent with an economic model of the coffee market that, in the short-run, is characterized by a...
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Estimating the impacts of a fruit fly eradication program in Peru : a geographical regression discontinuity approach
Salazar, Lina; Maffioli, Alessandro; Aramburu, Julián; … - 2016
In this paper, we evaluate the short term impact of a Fruit Fly Eradication Program in the coastal areas of Peru. Exploiting arbitrary variation in the program's intervention borders, as well as precise geographic location data of farmer's households, we use a Geographical Regression...
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