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This paper analyses the pathways of technology diffusion through social networks, following the experimental introduction of new technologies in Guinea-Bissau. In the context of an agricultural extension project, we document both the direct effects of this intervention and subsequent diffusion...
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smallholders, using low input-use farming technologies, may face small or even negative economic impacts from CC-induced rice paddy … expanded use of extension services and by providing better access to credit for smallholder farmers. We also find …
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, Viet Nam's dominant crop. We use three measures of welfare and two measures of agricultural commercialization, and find a …
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Some entry barriers in agricultural and agro-processing value chains, particularly for smallholder farmers and small … radical and incremental, ranging widely through biotechnology; production technologies; automation in sorting, grading, and … packaging; and digital platforms and data-connected devices for market access. These technologies have enabled farmers in Africa …
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Land registration and titling in Africa has been seen as a means of legal empowerment of the poor that can protect … smallholders' and pastoralists' rights of access to land and other land-based resources. Land registration is also on the … ethnojustice agenda in parts of Africa and beyond. Yet legal empowerment via registration and titling is also advocated by those …
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instrumental variable approach that controls for the potential endogeneity between crop production and migration using monthly …
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-Saharan Africa and more advanced developing and developed countries. Technology can help to overcome distances between producers and …
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is known about how local smallholder communities are affected when agribusinesses decrease or cease their operations. A … the share of land held by an agribusiness in a village affects smallholder plot-level tenure security and investments in …
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fertilization, they should be highly productive. We suggest that sugarcane is the crop most easily mobilized for biofuel. A number …
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This paper presents a descriptive analysis on the ownership of different types of technology - both agricultural machinery and information technology - within households in rural areas of Vietnam. We find that there has been little development in the ownership of agricultural machinery, but a...
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