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Women in Agriculture : The Impact of Male Out-Migration on Women's Agency, Household Welfare, and Agricultural Productivity
World Bank - 2015
drivers of the so-called feminization of agriculture in Latin America. This feminization has relevance for everyone given … agriculture's role in regional food security, national shared prosperity, and household resilience to shocks. The objective of … this study is to investigate the feminization of agriculture as well as its implications for women's agency, household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644572
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Unleashing the Power of Digital on Farms in Russia - and Seeking Opportunities for Small Farms
Nielson, David - 2018
Rapidly emerging technologies that capture, manage, communicate, and use information in digital form are dramatically transforming the way that farming and agribusiness are done across the globe-especially for large commercial farms. Nowhere is this more true than in the Russian Federation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012645636
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Quantifying Spillover Effects from Large Farm Establishments : The Case of Mozambique
Deininger, Klaus - 2015
Almost a decade after large land-based investment for agriculture increased sharply, opinions on its impact continue to … diverge, partly because (positive or negative) spillovers on neighboring smallholders have never been rigorously assessed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245618
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Beyond Dualism : Agricultural Productivity, Small Towns, and Structural Change in Bangladesh
Emran, M Shahe - 2017
elasticity of demand and the wage elasticity with respect to productivity increase in agriculture. For productivity growth to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246028
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Large Farm Establishment, Smallholder Productivity, Labor Market Participation, and Resilience : Evidence from Ethiopia
Ali, Daniel - 2016
surveys allows examination and quantification of spillovers using intertemporal changes in smallholders' proximity and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246400
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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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Childcare and maternal employment : evidence from Vietnam
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Hiraga, Masako; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2019
latest rounds of the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey spanning the early to mid-2010s. Addressing endogeneity issues …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051780
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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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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