mobilization for planting and harvest, thereby reducing rice area planted as well as rice yields. Household welfare, measured by … disaggregated indicator of Ebola disease mortality to nationally representative household survey data on agricultural production and …

the example of Ethiopia to show how simple improvements in administrative data collection can help to address this by (i …) allowing assessment of the productivity of land use and taking measures to increase it; (ii) comparing productivity between …

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 …

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 …

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 …

This study estimates and compares the effects of small and large irrigation dams on cropland productivity in South … although large dams increase cropland productivity downstream, they have a negative effect on cropland within the vicinity …

Agriculture has made major contributions to China's economic growth and poverty reduction, but the literature has … rarely focused on the institutional factors that might underpin such structural transformation and productivity. This paper … government land reallocations and formal land-use certificates on agricultural productivity growth, as well as the likelihood of …

vulnerability to poverty using the example of drought hazard impacts on the welfare of rural households in Ethiopia. The aim is to … determine the potential for applying a derived set of damage (vulnerability) functions based on realized shocks and household …. The need to explicitly account for different household characteristics that determine vulnerability within our model is …

the role of livestock inventories as a buffer stock in rural Ethiopia. The results show that relatively land …

years in Ethiopia, the paper estimates the impacts of rail transport on agricultural production. Methodologically, the paper …Agriculture remains an important economic sector in Africa, employing a large share of the labor force and earning … fertilizer is imported to Ethiopia …