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Agricultural Intensification : The Status in Six African Countries
Binswanger-Mkhize, Hans P - 2017
The Boserup-Ruthenberg framework has long been used to explain and understand the determinants of agricultural growth, the nature of the intensification of farming systems, investment, and technology adoption. The literature has produced an extensive body of evidence that summarizes or tests the...
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Agricultural Factor Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa : An Updated View with Formal Tests for Market Failure
Dillon, Brian - 2020
This paper uses the recently collected Living Standard Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture Initiative data sets from five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to provide a comprehensive overview of land and labor market participation by agrarian households and to formally test for...
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Smallholders? Land Ownership and Access in Sub-Saharan Africa : A New Landscape?
Deininger, Klaus - 2017
While scholars agree on the importance of land rental markets for structural transformation in rural areas, evidence on the extent and nature of their operation, including potential obstacles to their improved functioning, remains limited. This study uses household-level data from six countries...
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Should African Rural Development Strategies Depend on Smallholder Farms? An Exploration of the Inverse Productivity Hypothesis
Larson, Donald F. - 2020
In Africa, most development strategies include efforts to improve the productivity of staple crops grown on smallholder … farms. An underlying premise is that small farms are productive in the African context and that smallholders do not forgo … between productivity and scale to use surveys with a narrow geographic reach, when policy would be better served with studies …
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Beyond Dualism : Agricultural Productivity, Small Towns, and Structural Change in Bangladesh
Emran, M. Shahe - 2018
agricultural productivity in structural transformation in the labor market. The empirical work is based on a general equilibrium … elasticity of demand and the wage elasticity with respect to productivity increase in agriculture. For productivity growth to … significant positive effect of agricultural productivity on rice yield and agricultural wages. Productivity shock increases wages …
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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 … loss, although not exclusively due to estates, is associated with a 12 percent productivity loss for females, which is …
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What Explains Agricultural Price Movements?
Baffes, John - 2017
After 2005, commodity prices experienced their longest and broadest boom since World War II. Agricultural prices have now come down considerably since their 2011 peak, but are still 40 percent higher in real terms than their 2000 lows. This paper briefly addresses the main arguments on the...
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Mobile Phone Coverage and Producer Markets : Evidence from West Africa
Aker, Jenny C. - 2017
Mobile phone coverage has expanded considerably throughout the developing world, particularly within sub-Saharan Africa. Existing evidence suggests that increased access to information technology has improved agricultural market efficiency for consumer markets and certain commodities, but there...
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Political Economy of Public Policies : Insights from Distortions to Agricultural and Food Markets
Anderson, Kym - 2017
The agricultural and food sector is an ideal case for investigating the political economy of public policies. Many of the policy developments in this sector since the 1950s have been sudden and transformational, while others have been gradual but persistent. This paper reviews and synthesizes...
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Information, Direct Access to Farmers, and Rural Market Performance in Central India
Goyal, Aparajita - 2017
This paper estimates the impact of a change in procurement strategy of a private buyer in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Beginning in October 2000, internet kiosks and warehouses were established that provide wholesale price information and an alternative marketing channel to soy...
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