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Management of common-pool resources in the absence of individual pricing can lead to suboptimal allocation. In the context of irrigation schemes, this can create water scarcity even when there is sufficient water to meet the total requirements. High-frequency data from three irrigation schemes...
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This paper analyzes changes in agricultural productivity gender gaps in C?te d'Ivoire between 2008 and 2016 using …, but it is particularly remarkable for export crop productivity, likely due to increased adoption of fertilizer and … commercial agriculture and have witnessed greater reductions in land area compared with their male counterparts. The results show …
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To document the relative accuracy of methods for microdata collection on root and tuber crop production, an experiment was implemented in Malawi over a 12-month period, randomly assigning cassava-producing households to one of four approaches: daily diary-keeping, with semi-weekly supervision...
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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' education is likely to be a spillover effect. In particular, there are no …
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This paper provides evidence on the impacts of agricultural productivity on employment growth and structural … village sample leads to underestimation of agriculture's role in employment growth and transformation of non-farm activities …. Using rainfall as an instrument for agricultural productivity, empirical analysis finds a significant positive effect of …
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) allowing assessment of the productivity of land use and taking measures to increase it; (ii) comparing productivity between …
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on Agriculture. In addition, the paper (i) develops internationally comparable measures of overall agro-ecological crop …
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This paper provides evidence on the effects of agricultural productivity on wage rates, labor supply to market oriented … activities, and labor allocation between own farming and wage labor in agriculture. To guide the empirical work, this paper …-marketed services at home (`home production'). The model predicts positive effects of a favorable agricultural productivity shock on …
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regions. As a response, it is increasingly recommended that efforts should focus on improving water productivity in … agriculture, and significant public and private investments are being made with this goal in mind. Yet most public communications … are vague on the meaning of agricultural water productivity, and on what should be done to improve it. They also tend to …
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Whether the negative relationship between farm size and productivity that is confirmed in a large global literature … inverse productivity relationship in Rwanda, where policy makers consider land fragmentation and small farm sizes to be key … reason for the inverse farm-size productivity relationship …
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