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The impact of commercialization of rice on household welfare in rural Viet Nam

Cazzuffi, Chiara; McKay, Andrew D.; Perge, Emilie - 2018

The past 30 years have seen a consistent increase in agricultural commercialization in rural Viet Nam, at the same time when rural residents have moved increasingly into non-agricultural activities. The contribution of the latter to welfare improvement and poverty reduction is well known; in...

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Agribusinesses, smallholder tenure security, and plot-level investments : evidence from rural Tanzania

Sipangule, Kacana - 2017

The last decade has witnessed an increase in the interest in agricultural land in developing countries. While a great deal of attention has been paid to understanding the impacts of this increased interest in agricultural land, very little is known about how local smallholder communities are...

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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...

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Legal empowerment of the poor through property rights reform : tensions and trade-offs of land registration and titling in sub-Saharan Africa

Boone, Catherine - 2017

smallholders' and pastoralists' rights of access to land and other land-based resources. Land registration is also on the … will transfer land out of the hands of smallholders and into the hands of 'those who can make most efficient or productive …

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Effect of non-farm work on agricultural productivity : Empirical evidence from northern Ghana

Anang, Benjamin Tetteh - 2017

important livelihood strategy among smallholders, and earnings from off-farm work enable smallholders to improve their yields. …

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Contract farming in Mozambique : implications on gender inequalities within and across rural households

Navarra, Cecilia - 2018

This paper analyses the implication of contract farming on gender inequalities in rural Mozambique. Contract farming is often considered one of the major tools of agribusiness development: it broadly includes those arrangements under which producers commit to provide a pre-defined quantity of...

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Contracts between smallholders and private firms in Mozambique and their implications on food security

Navarra, Cecilia - 2017

The focus of this paper is the role played in rural contexts by contract farming agreements between smallholders and …

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The political economy of food price policy : the case of Kenya

Nzuma, Jonathan Makau - 2013

This paper evaluates Kenya's food price crisis over 2002 - 11 using a political economy approach. Kenya's food prices … about 30 per cent of the changes in world market prices are transmitted to domestic markets in Kenya. The study finds a … relatively slow speed of adjustment of domestic food prices in Kenya of between three to five months. In response, the government …

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Using evidence and operational responses to accelerate gender equality in Kenya

Torkelsson, Åsa - 2014

Government of Kenya (GoK) integrated gender in a pronounced way in the design and implementation of the Kenya Agricultural …

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Targeting social transfer programmes : comparing design and implementation errors across alternative mechanisms

Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel; Hurrell, Alex; Devereux, Stephen - 2014

implementers. An innovative cash transfer programme in northern Kenya trialled three targeting mechanisms to learn lessons about …

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