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surveys allows examination and quantification of spillovers using intertemporal changes in smallholders' proximity and …
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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 …
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farms. An underlying premise is that small farms are productive in the African context and that smallholders do not forgo …
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elasticity of demand and the wage elasticity with respect to productivity increase in agriculture. For productivity growth to …
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Women make essential contributions to agriculture in developing countries, where they constitute approximately 43 …
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Agriculture has made major contributions to China's economic growth and poverty reduction, but the literature has … households to exit from agriculture or send family members to the non-farm sector. It finds that land tenure insecurity, measured … by the history of past land reallocations, discourages households from quitting agriculture. The recognition of land …
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Many experts believe that low-cost mitigation opportunities in agriculture are abundant and comparable in scale to …
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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 …
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This paper estimates the profitability of fertilizer and hybrid seeds in Uganda, using agronomic evidence on the yield returns to inputs from experimental fields, as well as output price data from local markets between 2000 and 2012. The results suggest that the returns to fertilizer are...
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Might a malaria control intervention entail agricultural effects that allow a commercial agribusiness to offset its costs? The randomized allocation of 39,936 insecticide-treated mosquito nets among 81,597 smallholder cotton farming households in 1,507 clusters helps evaluate this in the context...
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