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Recall length and measurement error in agricultural surveys
Wollburg, Philip; Tiberti, Marco; Zezza, Alberto - 2020
. Using data from the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture in Malawi and Tanzania …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228617
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The nutrition sensitivity of food and agriculture in South Asia
Dizon, Felipe; Josephson, Anna; Raju, Dhushyanth - 2019
Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008111
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Generating gridded agricultural gross domestic product for Brazil : a comparison of methodologies
Thomas, Timothy S.; You, Liangzhi; Wood-Sichra, Ulrike; … - 2019
This paper examines two new methods to generate gridded agricultural Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and compares the results with a traditional method. In the case of Brazil, these two new methods of spatial disaggregation and cross-entropy outperform the prediction of agricultural GDP from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114017
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Impact of the West African Ebola epidemic on agricultural production and rural welfare : evidence from Liberia
De La Fuente, Alejandro; Jacoby, Hanan; Lawin, … - 2019
The 2014-15 Ebola epidemic took a devastating human and economic toll on three West African countries, of which Liberia was perhaps the hardest hit. The pathways through which the crisis affected economic activity in these largely agrarian societies remain poorly understood. To study these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051875
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Improving the measurement of rural women's employment : global momentum and survey research priorities
Koolwa, Gayatri - 2019
Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda Living Standards and Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture, as well as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022358
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Poverty, inequality, and agriculture in the EU
Azevedo, João Pedro; Brink, Rogerius Johannes Eugenius … - 2018
crisis of 2008. This paper assesses the role of agriculture and the Common Agricultural Program in achieving this. The paper … sheds light on the relationship between poverty and agriculture as part of the process of structural transformation. It … as evaluating the role of agriculture as a driver of shared prosperity. The analysis performed throughout the paper uses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002270
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Measuring farm labor : survey experimental evidence from Ghana
Gaddis, Isis; Oseni, Gbemisola; Palacios-Lopez, Amparo; … - 2019
This study examines recall bias in farm labor by conducting a randomized survey experiment in Ghana. Hours of farm labor obtained from a recall survey conducted at the end of the season are compared with data collected weekly throughout the season. The study finds that the recall method...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012004782
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Gender differences in agricultural productivity in Côte d'Ivoire : changes in determinants and distributional composition over the past decade
Donald, Aletheia; Lawin, Gabriel; Rouanet, Léa - 2020
commercial agriculture and have witnessed greater reductions in land area compared with their male counterparts. The results show … are the three most promising policy options to reach gender parity in agriculture in Cote d'Ivoire …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228280
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Salt of the earth : quantifying the impact of water salinity on global agricultural productivity
Russ, Jason; Zaveri, Esha D.; Damania, Richard; … - 2020
Salinity in surface waters is on the rise throughout much of the world. Many factors contribute to this change, including increased water extraction, poor irrigation management, and sea-level rise. To date no study has attempted to quantify the impacts on global food production. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228769
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Education spillovers in farm productivity : revisiting the evidence
Gille, Véronique - 2019
This paper exploits the social organization of India to revisit the question of education spillovers in farm productivity. The fact that social interactions mainly occur within castes in rural India provides tools to show that the observed correlation between farm productivity and neighbors'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008386