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Agricultural growth in Africa has accelerated, yet most of this growth has been driven by land expansion. Land … transfers to the rest of the economy, thus providing a powerful argument to raise public expenditure on agriculture to make a … green revolution happen in Africa. …
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Agricultural growth in Africa has accelerated, yet most of this growth has been driven by land expansion. Land … transfers to the rest of the economy, thus providing a powerful argument to raise public expenditure on agriculture to make a … green revolution happen in Africa. Copyright (C) 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. …
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understand potential effects of a recent promotion of related technologies in Africa. Using a case study of Malawi, the … implications of promoting high-input, intensive agriculture on food security, social relations and nutrition are considered. I …
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Germany in the period 1995-2008. Spatial units considered are the federal states, districts and structural district settlement …
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farming over leaving the sector. Nevertheless, income from agriculture is to a substantial extent complemented by off … zwischen Beschäftigten in der Landwirtschaft ist wesentlich höher als der zwischen durchschnittlichen Arbeitnehmern in beiden …
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rural Africa is far inferior to that of most Asian countries. While the greater diversity of agriculture calls for a larger …A large and increasing proportion of agricultural growth in Africa must come from continuous gains in land productivity … green revolution. Ethiopia’s record of a steady six to seven percent growth for agriculture and nearly halving of rural …
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-poor agricultural growth and of policies that can promote such growth in poor rural economies in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa … difficulties in today's poor rural areas in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Some of these difficulties are endogenous to these … Africa, new thinking is urgently needed to find alternative ways of 'kick starting' markets ways which reduce rent seeking …
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Poster Presentation for the 2014 AAEA Annual Meetings
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Africa, subsidizing fertilizer is not sufficient; there exists multiple trajectories to achieve in food security …
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We exploit plot data from the agricultural module of the third Malawi Integrated Household Survey (IHS-3) to investigate how organic cultivation techniques contribute to productivity of non-subsidized local maize and what to expect from using organic inputs on a larger scale. We approximate...
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