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community level. -- household productivity ; ecological sanitation ; UDDT ; Mali ; fertilizer ; matching …In many parts of the world, soils poor in nutrients are farmed with little addition of fertilizer, further depleting … sanitation and at recycling nutrients as fertilizer. This human fertilizer may act as a substitute for artificial fertilizers …
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Intensified use of agricultural inputs, particularly fertilizer, is a possible route to improved agricultural …
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We use a field experiment in Bangladesh to test if two types of variety-specific fertilizer recommendations …---government provided, community-level recommendations and plot-specific recommendations based on individual soil tests---affect fertilizer … use, yield, and profits. Treatment farmers do not change their fertilizer application behavior in response to either …
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finds that fertilizer consumption increased by 21% in response to the intervention. …
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quasiexperimental approach (Propensity Score Matching), this study estimates the impact of receiving an agricultural input donation on …
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finds that fertilizer consumption increased by 21% in response to the intervention. …
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In Mali, there exist various farm-cum-family structures, so that agricultural production occurs on plots controlled by … output first hand data collected in the south-eastern part of Mali. First, we find that land yields are significantly larger …
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, availability and food use). The analysis uses a double difference estimation combined with a propensity score matching to capture …
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In this paper I present a new approach to rural-to-urban migration in developing countries. This approach sheds new light on the role of urban-to-rural remittances in bringing about technological change in the agricultural sector of these countries. At the core of the new approach is a utility...
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, availability and food use ) . The analysis uses a double difference estimation co mbined with a propensity score matching to …
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