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Latin American and Caribbean countries have historically been known for their rates of land inequality, highest in the world. However, these countries also exhibit a high degree of heterogeneity in their patterns of land concentration and average farm sizes. These cross-country differences play...
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The role of farm size has recently come to the forefront of agricultural development debates. Agricultural development … country's dual agricultural policy focus towards large commercial agribusiness enterprises, led by the Ministry of Agriculture …, and family farms, led by the Ministry of Agrarian Development. Our purpose is to examine the role that farm size may have …
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The simultaneous achievement of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) is, to say the least, challenging. In a … competition. The situation in Africa is particularly problematic, as the continent lags behind all others in terms of quality and … sector holds the key to many aspects of development, however no energy solution (albeit green or synergetic) should be …
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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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This paper estimates the impact of an agricultural technology adoption program on agricultural production and income using an experimental approach. The context of analysis is the Program for the Support of Innovation in Agricultural Technology (PATCA II) implemented in the Dominican Republic....
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It is a well-known fact that a great majority of countries implement agricultural input subsidies as a tool to boost agricultural productivity and output. However, even though this practice is widely spread and represents a large part of the agricultural budget, little emphasis has been placed...
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The emergence of slums is a common feature in a country's path towards urbanization, structural transformation and … development. Based on salient micro and macro evidence of Brazilian labor, housing and education markets, we construct a simple … stones for lower skilled households and for the development of the country as a whole. We calibrate our model to explore the …
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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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Climate change, especially the warming trend experienced by several countries, could affect agricultural productivity. As a consequence, rural incomes will change, and with them the incentives for people to remain in rural areas. Using data from 116 countries between 1960 and 2000, we analyze...
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