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Do Fertilizer Subsidies Affect the Demand for Commercial Fertilizer? An Example from Malawi
Ricker-Gilbert, Jacob; Jayne, Thomas S. - 2009
Fertilizer subsidies are again becoming a popular policy tool in sub-Saharan Africa. Despite their potential, little …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444833
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A Test of the New Variant Famine Hypothesis: Panel Survey Evidence from Zambia
Mason, Nicole M.; Jayne, Thomas S.; Chapoto, Antony; … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
Replaced with revised version of paper 08/04/09.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010880149
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Do Fertilizer Subsidies Affect the Demand for Commercial Fertilizer? An Example from Malawi
Ricker-Gilbert, Jacob; Jayne, Thomas S. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
Replaced with revised version of paper 07/24/09.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010913591
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The Impact of State Marketing Board Operations on Smallholder Behavior and Incomes: The Case of Kenya
Mather, David; Jayne, Thomas S. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
eastern and southern Africa, yet there is little empirical research regarding how their activities affect smallholder behavior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010913893
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The Rising Class of Emergent Farmers: An Effective Model for Achieving Agricultural Growth and Poverty Reduction in Africa?
Sitko, Nicholas J.; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2012
reduction is a central development debate in Africa. More broadly this debate revolves around questions of farm land … in Africa. On the one hand, there is a well‐established literature that argues that the intensification of smallholder …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011069492
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Smallholder Heterogeneity and Maize Market Participation in Southern and Eastern Africa: Implications for Investment Strategies to Increase Marketed Food Staple Supply
Mather, David; Boughton, Duncan; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2011
living for both rural and urban households. Hence, these objectives figure prominently in Comprehensive Africa Agriculture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368797
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The Impacts of Trade Barriers and Market Interventions on Maize Price Predictability: Evidence from Eastern and Southern Africa
Chapoto, Antony; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009
There is continuing debate in east and southern Africa about the effects of food market reform on the welfare of small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008555519
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Characteristics Associated with Prime-Age Mortality in Eastern and Southern Africa: Evidence from Zambia and Kenya
Chapoto, Antony; Jayne, Thomas S.; Kirimi, Lilian; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009
contract the disease. Studies conducted in Sub-Saharan Africa during the 1980s generally found a positive correlation between … support this. An emerging strand of the literature on the AIDS epidemic in Africa posits that poverty is increasingly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008555521
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The 2008/09 Food Price and Food Security Situation in Eastern and Southern Africa: Implications for Immediate and Longer Run Responses.
Jayne, Thomas S.; Chapoto, Antony; Minde, Isaac J.; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2008
The dramatic rise in world food prices since 2007 has commanded the world’s attention. However, in recent months, world food prices have fallen almost as rapidly as they had risen in late 2007 and early 2008, yet as is demonstrated in this report, domestic food price levels in many eastern and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008555522
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Spatial Disadvantages or Spatial Poverty Traps: Household Evidence from Rural Kenya.
Burke, William J.; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2008
The goals of this study are: 1) to determine the relative importance of spatial factors in explaining household wealth; 2) to identify the spatial characteristics of the chronically poorest, the consistently well off, and households escaping from poverty as well as descending into poverty; 3) to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008555527