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-sectional evidence, and uses the method to study animal husbandry in Africa. The model is intended to estimate the structure beneath …
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modified Heckman model, is then estimated across 8,400 farmers in Africa. The analysis explicitly models irrigation but … sensitive to climate change. Many farmers in Africa will experience net revenue losses from warming. Irrigated farms, on the … temperatures provided there is sufficient water available. This will be an effective remedy in select regions of Africa with water …
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This paper uses quantitative methods to examine the way African farmers have adapted livestock management to the range of climates found across the African continent. The authors use logit analysis to estimate whether farmers adopt livestock. They then use three econometric models to examine...
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This paper analyzes the impact of climate change on animal husbandry in Africa. It regresses the net revenue from … raising animals in small and large farms across Africa on climate, soil, and other control variables to test the climate …
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Trade preferences are expected to facilitate global market integration and offer the potential for rapid economic growth and poverty reduction for developing countries. But those preferences do not always guarantee sustainable external competitiveness to beneficiary countries and may risk...
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firm level exports equation they estimate. One part of the effect of geography operates through Africa's lower foreign … from cheaper foreign suppliers, and partly because domestic substitutes for importable inputs are more expensive. Africa …
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and performance in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It finds that SMEs in SSA get around market failures and lack of formal …
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The objective of this paper is to provide an estimate of the elasticity of elephant poaching with respect to prices. Ivory being a storable commodity subjects its price to Hotelling's no-arbitrage condition, hence allowing identification of the supply curve. The price of gold, one of many...
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Stylized facts drive research agendas and policy debates. Yet robust stylized facts are hard to come by, and when available, often outdated. In a special issue of Food Policy, 12 papers revisit conventional wisdom on African agriculture and its farmers' livelihoods using nationally...
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Everyone knows about seasonality. But what exactly do we know? This study systematically measures seasonal price gaps at 193 markets for 13 food commodities in seven African countries. It shows that the commonly used dummy variable or moving average deviation methods to estimate the seasonal gap...
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