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Climate variability and household welfare in northern Ghana
Nkegbe, Paul Kwame; Kuunibe, Naasegnibe - 2014
Climate variability poses a major risk to agricultural incomes in Africa. In Ghana, most of the country's poor people … investigates the impact of climate variability on household welfare in the area using a three-period panel data from the Ghana … Living Standards Survey, in addition to data on annual rainfall and temperature for northern Ghana for the period 1991 to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235879
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Effect of non-farm work on agricultural productivity : Empirical evidence from northern Ghana
Anang, Benjamin Tetteh - 2017
farmers' productivity, using survey data from 300 smallholder farm households in northern Ghana. The study employs an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607308
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Ties that bind : the kin system as a mechanism of income-hiding between spouses in rural Ghana
Castilla, Carolina - 2013
, hiding of income can occur even when revelation increases bargaining power. I draw data from Ghana and exploit the variation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009692587
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Environmental and gender impacts of land tenure regularization in Africa : pilot evidence from Rwanda
Ali, Daniel Ayalew; Deininger, Klaus W.; Goldstein, … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009377240
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Commercialization in agriculture in rural Viet Nam, 2006 - 14
McKay, Andrew D.; Cazzuffi, Chiara; Perge, Emilie - 2015
The vast majority of households in rural Viet Nam undertake agricultural activities and for many this is their main livelihood. Moreover, this agriculture has become increasingly commercialized over time. This paper uses the five wave VARHS balanced panel data set to analyse three aspects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011342949
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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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Tenure insecurity, climate variability, and renting-out decisions among female smallholder farmers in Ethiopia
Akpalu, Wisdom; Bezabih, Mintewab - 2014
Land tenure arrangements in Africa are generally skewed in favour of males. Compared to males, female plot owners face complex sets of constraints and systemic high tenure insecurity which culminate in low yields. In order to obtain better returns, some females rent their plots to males, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010419492
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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, shocks in weather patterns affect farmers' expectations of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013203077
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011614142
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A Phoenix in flames? : portfolio choice and violence in civil war in rural Burundi
Nillesen, Eleonora; Verwimp, Philip - 2010
This paper challenges the idea that farmers revert to subsistence farming when confronted with violence from civil war. Macro-economic evidence on economic legacies of civil war suggests that civil wars, while obviously disastrous in the short run, do not need to have persistent effects on long...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008661210