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Large Farm Establishment, Smallholder Productivity, Labor Market Participation, and Resilience : Evidence from Ethiopia
Ali, Daniel Ayalew - 2018
surveys allows examination and quantification of spillovers using intertemporal changes in smallholders' proximity and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936456
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Quantifying Spillover Effects from Large Farm Establishments : The Case of Mozambique
Deininger, Klaus - 2018
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/10012936813
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Should African Rural Development Strategies Depend on Smallholder Farms? An Exploration of the Inverse Productivity Hypothesis
Larson, Donald F. - 2020
farms. An underlying premise is that small farms are productive in the African context and that smallholders do not forgo …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857202
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Beyond Dualism : Agricultural Productivity, Small Towns, and Structural Change in Bangladesh
Emran, M. Shahe - 2018
elasticity of demand and the wage elasticity with respect to productivity increase in agriculture. For productivity growth to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012933761
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The Nutrition Sensitivity of Food and Agriculture in South Asia
Dizon, Felipe Jr Fadullon - 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/10012891121
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Commitments to Save : A Field Experiment in Rural Malawi
Brune, Lasse - 2017
savings accounts. In collaboration with a microfinance institution in Malawi, the authors tested two primary treatments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975854
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Gender-Differentiated Impacts of Tenure Insecurity on Agricultural Performance in Malawi's Customary Tenure Systems
Deininger, Klaus - 2017
improve agricultural performance. Data from 15,000 smallholders and 800 estates in Malawi allow exploring the long …-term effects of such a strategy. The results suggest that (i) most estates are less productive than smallholders; (ii) fear of land …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965194
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Root for the Tubers : Extended-Harvest Crop Production and Productivity Measurement in Surveys
Kilic, Talip - 2018
was implemented in Malawi over a 12-month period, randomly assigning cassava-producing households to one of four … additionally demonstrates likely gross overestimation in international and ministerial statistics on cassava yields in Malawi. For …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909230
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Market Imperfections Exacerbate the Gender Gap : The Case of Malawi
Palacios-Lopez, Amparo - 2020
This paper hypothesizes that labor and credit market imperfections?by discouraging off-farm income-generating activities and restricting access to inputs, respectively?affect female farm productivity more deeply than male productivity. The paper develops a theoretical model that decomposes the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012856177
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Caught in a Productivity Trap : A Distributional Perspective on Gender Differences in Malawian Agriculture
Kilic, Talip - 2020
-representative analysis of the gender gap in Malawi, and decomposes it, for the first time, at the mean and at selected points of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857096