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Food Standards, Certification, and Poverty among Coffee Farmers in Uganda
Chiputwa, Brian; Qaim, Matin; Spielman, David J. - Institut für Agrarökonomie, Georg-August-Universität … - 2013
Private standards are gaining in importance in global markets for high-value foods. We analyze and compare impacts of three sustainability oriented standards – Fairtrade, Organic, and UTZ – on the livelihoods of smallholder coffee farmers in Uganda. Using survey data and propensity score...
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The supermarket revolution and impacts on agricultural labor markets: Empirical evidence from Kenya
Rao, Elizaphan J.O.; Qaim, Matin - Institut für Agrarökonomie, Georg-August-Universität … - 2011
systems could have important implications for farming and wider rural development. While previous studies have analyzed farm … labor. Given that agricultural wage labor is primarily an activity of low-income households in rural areas, the poor benefit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201393
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Rural Poverty and Employment Effects of Bt Cotton in India
Subramanian, Arjunan; Qaim, Matin - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
The impact of genetically modified (GM) crops on the poor in developing countries is still the subject of controversy … farmers, highlighting that Bt cotton contributes to poverty reduction and rural development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010880072
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Social networks, technology adoption and technical efficiency in smallholder agriculture : the case of cereal growers in Central Tanzania
Muange, Elijah Nzula - 2015
Global demand for food and agricultural products is on the rise. There is hence the need to increase production to meet this growing demand and smallholders will play a significant role. One strategy for smallholders to sustainably increase agricultural production is the use of modern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309279
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Social networks and farmer exposure to improved crop varieties in Tanzania
Muange, Elijah Nzula; Schwarze, Stefan; Qaim, Matin - 2014
In Sub-Sahara Africa, adoption rates of improved crop varieties remain relatively low, which is partly due to farmers’ limited access to information. In smallholder settings, information often spreads through informal networks. Better understanding of such networks could potentially help to...
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The impact of social networks on hybrid seed adoption in India
Matuschke, Ira; Qaim, Matin - In: Agricultural economics : the journal of the … 40 (2009) 5, pp. 493-505
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Contract farming and smallholder incentives to produce high quality: experimental evidence from the Vietnamese dairy sector
Saenger, Christoph; Qaim, Matin; Torero, Maximo; … - Institut für Agrarökonomie, Georg-August-Universität … - 2012
of incentivizing the production of high quality milk. A framed field experiment is conducted to evaluate the impact of …
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Yield Effects of Tissue Culture Bananas in Kenya: Accounting for Selection Bias and the Role of Complementary Inputs
Kabunga, Nassul S.; Dubois, Thomas; Qaim, Matin - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2011
We analyze yield effects of tissue culture (TC) banana technology in the Kenyan small farm sector, using recent survey data and an endogenous switching regression approach. TC banana plantlets, which are free from pests and diseases, have been introduced in East Africa since the late-1990s....
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Impact of tissue culture banana technology in Kenya: A difference-in-difference estimation approach
Kikulwe, Enoch M.; Kabunga, Nassul .S.; Qaim, Matin - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2012
Most micro-level studies on the impact of agricultural technologies build on cross-section data, which can lead to … unreliable impact estimates. Here, we use panel data covering two time periods to estimate the impact of tissue culture (TC …) banana technology in the Kenyan small farm sector. TC banana is an interesting case, because previous impact studies showed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010555775
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Yield Effects of Tissue Culture Bananas in Kenya: Accounting for Selection Bias and the Role of Complementary Inputs
Kabunga, Nassul S.; Dubois, Thomas; Qaim, Matin - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2011
We analyze yield effects of tissue culture (TC) banana technology in the Kenyan small farm sector, using recent survey data and an endogenous switching regression approach. TC banana plantlets, which are free from pests and diseases, have been introduced in East Africa since the late-1990s....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009149956