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Climate change with increasing climate variability is likely to alter risks in agriculturalproduction. The effectiveness of using weather derivatives to hedge against drought risks forrain-fed grain maize production was investigated for current (1981-2003) and future (2070-2100) climates in...
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, empirical studies are rare. This paper investigates the determinants of moral hazard among JLL schemes from Malawi, using group …
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proposed method is applied to the Malawi maize market with monthly data from June 1999 to October 2009 for 26 districts. This … costs of domestic maize trade in Malawi. The evidence indicates that markets are particularly well integrated during food …
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in the study is from Malawi collected by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).Using the direct …
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"Malawi's economy is fragile, dominated mainly by the production end export of agricultural products. National … of fish in Malawi as declining as the population grows at a rate of 3.3% per annum, pressures on natural resources are … the economic base. Such an approach offers the only solution, not only to common property resource management in Malawi …
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Malawi using panel data from a unique field experiment. Though employment in daily wage markets is important to individuals …, describes the results of a randomized field experiment in Malawi examining borrower responses to being fingerprinted when …
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This thesis covers years of field work in Malawi, Africa by the author as a Research Agronomist (Tree Nuts) for the … Government of Malawi. The thesis is an action research type with core and thesis projects which are closely linked. The client … group are large estate managers who control the tree nut industries in Malawi. The political, economic and historical …
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household survey data from Malawi to analyse ‘one of the other faces of malnutrition’. The world food price crisis of 2007 … studies set in Malawi, which analyse welfare in terms of food security and income effects using the same 2004/05 household … by differences in conceptualising price changes. In case of Malawi, for a reasonable set of observed price changes, mean …
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Fortunes in the agricultural sectors of four of the largest South Pacific countries are traced in recent decades by estimating the single factoral terms of trade index. The single factoral terms of trade are measured for agriculture in four Melanesian countries-Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon...
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