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Binswanger-Mkhize, Hans P - 2017

on Agriculture. In addition, the paper (i) develops internationally comparable measures of overall agro-ecological crop …

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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 …

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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 economies of scale -- a premise supported by the often...

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Aligning Climate Change Mitigation and Agricultural Policies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Larson, Donald F. - 2017

policy instruments needed to tap mitigation opportunities in agriculture is incomplete. In particular, market … mitigation incentives, and missed mitigation opportunities in agriculture. The paper concludes with a discussion of alternative … policies designed to jointly promote mitigation and co-benefits for agriculture and the environment …

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Climate Change Impacts and Mitigation in the Developing World : An Integrated Assessment of the Agriculture and Forestry Sectors

Havlík, Petr - 2017

This paper conducts an integrated assessment of climate change impacts and climate mitigation on agricultural commodity markets and food availability in low- and middle-income countries. The analysis uses the partial equilibrium model GLOBIOM to generate scenarios to 2080. The findings show that...

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Are Caste Categories Misleading? The Relationship between Gender and Jati in Three Indian States

Joshi, Shareen - 2017

This paper examines the relationship between caste and gender inequality in three states in India. When households are grouped using conventional, government-defined categories of caste the paper finds patterns that are consistent with existing literature: lower-caste women are more likely to...

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Documenting Myanmar's Social Transformation : Insights from Six Rounds of Research on Livelihoods and Social Change in Rural Communities

Pursch, Samuel James - 2017

This paper presents the initial findings from six rounds of research conducted between 2012 and 2016 on livelihoods and social change in rural Myanmar, undertaken as part of the Qualitative Social and Economic Monitoring initiative. These data provide unique insights into the ways in which broad...

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Increasing the Sustainability of Rural Water Service : Findings from the Impact Evaluation Baseline Survey in Nicaragua

Borja-Vega, Christian - 2017

evaluation that aims to measure the causal impact of a large-scale rural water supply and services program (PROSASR) in Nicaragua. The overall objective of the evaluation is to assess the causal impact of the provision of technical assistance packages on improvements in the functionality and...

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Roads and Rural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Berg, Claudia N. - 2017

serve local demand, but are not indicative of commercial agriculture that serves external markets …

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On the Central Role of Small Farms in African Rural Development Strategies

Larson, Donald F. - 2017

Improving the productivity of smallholder farms in Sub-Saharan Africa offers the best chance to reduce poverty among this generation of rural poor, by building on the limited resources farming households already possess. It is also the best and shortest path to meet rising food needs. Using...

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