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Evaluating nutrition and health impacts of agricultural innovations
Qaim, Matin - 2014
details of these agriculture-nutrition-health linkages are not yet well understood. While there is a broad literature on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010430772
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Effects of marketing contracts and resource-providing contracts in the African small farm sector : insights from oil palm production in Ghana
Ruml, Anette; Qaim, Matin - 2019
smallholders. Here, we address this research gap using data from oil palm farmers in Ghana who participate in different contract …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012014862
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Impacts of supermarkets on farm household nutrition in Kenya
Chege, Christine G.K.; Andersson, Camilla I.M.; Qaim, Matin - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 72 (2015), pp. 394-407
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413103
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Oil palm adoption, household welfare, and nutrition among smallholder farmers in Indonesia
Euler, Michael; Krishna, Vijesh; Schwarze, Stefan; … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 93 (2017), pp. 219-235
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011752001
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Oil palm adoption, household welfare and nutrition among smallholder farmers in Indonesia
Euler, Michael; Krishna, Vijesh; Schwarze, Stefan; … - 2015
The recent expansion of oil palm in Indonesia is largely smallholder-driven. However, its socio-economic implications are under-examined. Analyzing farm-household data from Jambi Province, Sumatra, oil palm adoption is found to have positive consumption and nutrition effects. However, these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325920
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Rubber vs. oil palm : an analysis of factors influencing smallholders' crop choice in Jambi, Indonesia
Schwarze, Stefan; Euler, Michael; Gatto, Marcel; Hein, J.; … - 2015
by large private and public companies, it is expected that smallholders will outnumber large estates in the near future …. For policy formulation it is hence important to better understand who these smallholders are and why they have started to … production areas for oil palm, to analyse smallholders' decision making by combining qualitative, quantitative, and experimental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325921
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Impacts of supermarkets on farm household nutrition in Kenya
Chege, Christine G. K.; Andersson, Camilla I. M.; Qaim, … - 2014
be useful for other impact studies to better understand agriculture-nutrition linkages. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010353359
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Transgenic crops, production risk, and agrobiodiversity
Vijesh, Krishna; Qaim, Matin; Zilberman, David - 2014
Do transgenic crops cause agrobiodiversity erosion? We hypothesize that they increase productivity and reduce production risk and may therefore reduce farmer demand for on-farm varietal diversity, especially when only a few transgenic varieties are available. We also hypothesize that varietal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010251108
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Economics of weather index-based insurance: analysis of smallholder farmers' preferences and the impact of insurance on productivity in Kenya
Sibiko, Kenneth Waluse - 2016
agriculture. Weather extremes affect crop productivity not only through the direct relationship between weather variables and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012426341
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Effects of marketing contracts and resource-providing contracts in the African small farm sector : insights from oil palm production in Ghana
Ruml, Anette; Qaim, Matin - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 136 (2020), pp. 1-12
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550254