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Given global heterogeneity in climate-induced agricultural variability, Tanzania has the potential to substantially … exporting regions, Tanzania may be able to export more maize at higher prices, even if it also experiences below … partners' usual import sources. Future climate predictions suggest that some of Tanzania's trading partners will experience …
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locations in Tanzania. The result of these findings is a compilation which is fascinating in itself and important for the …
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The consequences of climate change for agriculture and food security in developing countries are of serious concern …. Due to their reliance on rain-fed agriculture both as a source of income and consumption, many low-income countries are … Tanzania. Representative climate projections are used in calibrated crop models to predict crop yield changes for 110 districts …
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distortions and decreasing returns to scale. As a result, a positive relationship between farm productivity and land size may turn …This paper shows that using yields may not be informative of the relationship between farm size and productivity in the … findings for Peru, Tanzania, and Bangladesh. In addition, we show that the dispersion in both measures of productivity across …
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I develop a method to measure and separate the production misallocation caused by failures in factor markets versus … financial markets. When I apply the method to rice farming villages in Thailand I find surprisingly little misallocation …. Optimal reallocation would increase output in most villages by less than 15 percent. By 2006 most misallocation comes from …
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misallocation in agriculture during the period between 2006 and 2016. Despite rapid growth in agricultural productivity and a …We examine important changes in agriculture in Viet Nam in the context of ongoing structural changes in the economy. We … reallocation of factor inputs to more productive farmers, we find that misallocation across farmers remains high and increased …
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leads to significantly larger agricultural investment and riskier production choices in agriculture. The salient constraint …
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We study the impact of incomplete consumption risk-sharing on land misallocation in rural economies. We develop a …' choices, leading them away from maximizing expected incomes and resulting in land misallocation. Using the latest ICRISAT … within an otherwise undistorted economy can yield gains comparable to those achieved by removing distortions in factor …
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's working hours. Analysis using Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) data on the Kagera region in Tanzania lend support to …
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's working hours. Analysis using Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) data on the Kagera region in Tanzania lend support to …
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