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Agricultural Factor Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa : An Updated View with Formal Tests for Market Failure

Dillon, Brian - 2014

This paper uses the recently collected Living Standard Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture Initiative …

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Agricultural factor markets in Sub-Saharan Africa : an updated view with formal tests for market failure

Dillon, Brian; Barrett, Christopher B. - 2014

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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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012854802

Agricultural factor markets in Sub-Saharan Africa : an updated view with formal tests for market failure

Dillon, Brian; Barrett, Christopher B. - In: Food policy : economics planning and politics of food … 67 (2017), pp. 64-77

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Within-Season Producer Response to Warmer Temperatures : Defensive Investments by Kenyan Farmers

Jagnani, Maulik - 2020

We present evidence that farmers adjust agricultural inputs in response to within-season temperature variation, undertaking defensive investments to reduce the adverse agroecological impacts of warmer temperatures. Using panel data from Kenyan maize growing households, we find that higher...

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Soil quality and fertilizer use rates among smallholder farmers in western Kenya

Phiri Marenya, Paswel; Barrett, Christopher B. - In: Agricultural economics : the journal of the … 40 (2009) 5, pp. 561-572

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Soil Quality and Fertilizer Use Rates Among Smallholder Farmers in Western Kenya

Marenya, Paswel; Barrett, Christopher B. - 2011

Studies of fertilizer use in sub-Saharan Africa have been dominated by analyses of economic and market factors having to do with infrastructure, institutions, and incentives that prevent or foster increased fertilizer demand, largely ignoring how soil fertility status conditions farmer demand...

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Farmers’ Perceptions of Soil Fertility and Fertilizer Yield Response in Kenya

Marenya, Paswel; Barrett, Christopher B.; Gulick, Trudi - 2011

To develop soil fertility techniques that respond to farmers’ actual concerns, researchers and agricultural development practitioners in developing countries need to identify how farmers in those regions form perceptions on soil quality and crop response to inputs. Using survey and farm soils...

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The Impacts of Household Land Use and Socio Economic Factors on the Soil Fertility of Smallholder Farms in the Highlands of Kenya

Ngoze, Solomon; Riha, Susan; Mbugua, David; Shepherd, Keith - 2008

Raising agricultural productivity in smallholder agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa requires an understanding of if and … poverty dynamics and soil degradation in smallholder agriculture; wealthier households in the eastern Kenya highlands are able …

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Understanding the Agricultural Input Landscape in Sub-Saharan Africa : Recent Plot, Household, and Community-Level Evidence

Sheahan, Megan - 2014

improved technologies, particularly improved seed, fertilizers and other agro-chemicals, machinery, and irrigation. Yet … public and private investment in agriculture, how low is modern input use in Africa really? This paper revisits Africa … cross-country comparable Living Standard Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture covering six countries in the …

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