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Better understanding of inequality, including its relationship to governance and other key outcomes, is relevant both to academic researchers and to policy-makers. Nevertheless, efforts to establish causal relationships empirically remain hampered by the quality and availability of data,...
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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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Alterations in rainfall patterns and increasing temperatures due to climate change will most likely translate into yield reductions in desirable crops. In this particular context, the object of this paper is to lay down findings and results for projected yield impacts in Morocco using a...
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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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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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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 … rich Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture dataset, I find that the intensity of chemical …
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an ex-ante measure. In this paper, we disentangle the direct effect of weather shocks on income from agriculture from the …
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We employ a novel approach to investigate the reasons for a low demand for agricultural insurance. We confirm that farmers systematically undervalue agricultural insurance. First, we find that private transfers, mainly from family members, explain under-valuation of agricultural insurance....
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Some entry barriers in agricultural and agro-processing value chains, particularly for smallholder farmers and small/medium-sized processors, can be overcome with innovation and technology adoption. Technologies and innovation in these sectors have been both radical and incremental, ranging...
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Understanding how internal labour migration affects the agricultural sector is important for all developing countries whose markets do not work well or are non-existent. In fact, even if the movement out of the agricultural sector can be viewed as a process to reach development for many African...
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