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This paper studies the relationship between land tenure for smallholder agriculture and deforestation in Viet Nam. We …
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Due to increasing population pressure on limited cultivable land in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), farm size has been shrinking, fallow periods have been shortened, and soil fertility has been declining. In accordance with the Boserupian evolutionary theory and the Hayami-Ruttan induced...
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accelerated growth of both agriculture and non-agricultural sectors. Vast challenges of still widespread poverty and food …
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This paper considers the impact of agriculture and international trade development on income distribution and economic …
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to their non-farm counterparts. We demonstrate that the probability of experiencing risks related to agriculture is …
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agriculture. Using notions of transitions and mobilities we set out a transformative work and opportunity space framework that … that seek to engage young people with agriculture must be more realistic, rooted in more context-specific economic and … social analysis, and appreciative of the variety of ways that rural men and women use agriculture to serve their needs and …
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livelihood. Moreover, this agriculture has become increasingly commercialized over time. This paper uses the five wave VARHS …
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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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fragmented. Results show strong effects of both inter- and intra-farm fragmentation on labour input per hectare in agriculture …
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The paper examines the role of foreign aid in building capacity to address climate change. While the experience with this topic is relatively recent and not yet extensive, analogous questions have arisen in many other areas of foreign aid. It is likely that climate change aid programmes work...
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