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Cotton, Biotechnology, and Economic Development
Baffes, John - 2017
During the past decade, cotton prices remained considerably below other agricultural prices (although they recovered … toward the end of 2010). Yet, between 2000-04 and 2005-09 world cotton production increased 13 percent. This paper … conjectures that biotechnology-induced productivity improvements increased supplies by China and India, which, in addition to …
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Root for the Tubers : Extended-Harvest Crop Production and Productivity Measurement in Surveys
Kilic, Talip - 2018
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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The Effect of Climate and Technological Uncertainty in Crop Yields on the Optimal Path of Global Land Use
Cai, Yongyang - 2017
The pattern of global land use has important implications for the world's food and timber supplies, bioenergy, biodiversity and other eco-system services. However, the productivity of this resource is critically dependent on the world's climate, as well as investments in, and dissemination of...
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Gender and Agriculture : Inefficiencies, Segregation, and Low Productivity Traps
Croppenstedt, Andre - 2017
Women make essential contributions to agriculture in developing countries, where they constitute approximately 43 percent of the agricultural labor force. However, female farmers typically have lower output per unit of land and are much less likely to be active in commercial farming than their...
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Eyes in the Sky, Boots on the Ground : Assessing Satellite- and Ground-Based Approaches to Crop Yield Measurement and Analysis in Uganda
Lobell, David B. - 2020
Crop yields in smallholder systems are traditionally assessed using farmer-reported information in surveys, occasionally by crop cuts for a sub-section of a farmer's plot, and rarely using full-plot harvests. Accuracy and cost vary dramatically across methods. In parallel, satellite data is...
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Could the Debate Be Over? Errors in Farmer-Reported Production and Their Implications for the Inverse Scale-Productivity Relationship in Uganda
Gourlay, Sydney - 2020
Based on a two-round household panel survey conducted in Eastern Uganda, this study shows that the analysis of the inverse scale-productivity relationship is highly sensitive to how plot-level maize production, hence yield (production divided by GPS-based plot area), is measured. Although...
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Missing(Ness) in Action : Selectivity Bias in Gps-Based Land Area Measurements
Carletto, Calogero - 2020
Land area is a fundamental component of agricultural statistics, and of analyses undertaken by agricultural economists. While household surveys in developing countries have traditionally relied on farmers' own, potentially error-prone, land area assessments, the availability of affordable and...
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Yield Impact of Irrigation Management Transfer : Story from the Philippines
Bandyopadhyay, Sushenjit - 2016
Irrigation management transfer is an important strategy among donors and governments to strengthen farmer control over water and irrigation infrastructure. This study seeks to understand whether irrigation management transfer is meeting the promise of its commitments. The authors use data from a...
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Cotton Subsidies, the WTO, and The'Cotton Problem'
Baffes, John - 2017
Following an 8-year long dispute over cotton subsidies, Brazil and the United States signed a Memorandum of … Understanding on April 21, 2010, effectively paving the way for settling the dispute. This paper argues that cotton subsidies are …, political will. Chief among them is the persistent divergence between cotton prices and the prices of other agricultural …
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Markets for Cotton By-Products : Global Trends and Implications for African Cotton Producers
Baffes, John - 2017
This paper analyzes and compares the structure of cotton by-products industries in se-lected countries (Uganda … as feedstocks for biofuels is unlikely to become a new source of growth for the cotton oil market. Third, within the … context of deepening the on-going reform efforts in West and Central African countries, cotton by-products should be taken …
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