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Is EU Support to Malawi Agriculture Effective?
Zant, Wouter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
We measure the impact of the Farmers Income Diversification Program (FIDP), an EU funded program implemented in Malawi … impact. Computations are based on annual data by Extension Planning Area, 198 in total, fully covering Malawi, for the period …
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How does Market Access affect Smallholder Behavior? The Case of Tobacco Marketing in Malawi
Zant, Wouter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
of an additional tobacco auction floor in Malawi to investigate the impact of a reduction in transaction costs and … of tobacco, the major cash crop in Malawi. Given the non-experimental nature of the data we use matching and potential … covering Malawi, for the period 2003-04 to 2009-10. The estimation results support a statistically significant positive impact …
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Do Organic Inputs in African Subsistence Agriculture Raise Productivity? Evidence from Plot Data of Malawi Household Surveys
Zant, Wouter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
We exploit plot data from the agricultural module of the third Malawi Integrated Household Survey (IHS-3) to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256742
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Smallholder Risk Management in Developing Countries
Cervantes-Godoy, Dalila; Kimura, Shingo; Antón, Jesús - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2013
This paper addresses various aspects of risk and risk management for smallholders in developing countries, and presents a quantitative assessment of farm-level risks and risk management strategies in three emerging economies: Brazil, China and Viet Nam. The analysis covers production, income,...
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Information from Markets Near and Far: Mobile Phones and Agricultural Markets in Niger
Aker, Jenny C. - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2 (2010) 3, pp. 46-59
Price dispersion across markets is common in developing countries. Using novel market and trader-level data, this paper provides estimates of the impact of mobile phones on price dispersion across grain markets in Niger. The introduction of mobile phone service between 2001 and 2006 explains a...
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A Model of West African Millet Prices in Rural Markets
Brown, Molly E.; Higgins, Nathaniel; Hintermann, Beat - CER-ETH Center of Economic Research, Department of … - 2009
In this article we specify a model of millet prices in the three West African countries of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger. Using data obtained from USAID’s Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) we present a unique regional cereal price forecasting model that takes advantage of the...
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Oil price shocks and agricultural commodity prices
Wang, Yudong; Wu, Chongfeng; Yang, Li - In: Energy Economics 44 (2014) C, pp. 22-35
While the impacts of oil price changes on agricultural commodity markets are of great interest to economists, previous studies do not differentiate oil-specific shocks from aggregate demand shocks. In this paper, we address this issue using a structural VAR analysis. Our findings indicate that...
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Wholesale Milk Markets: A Study of Market Integration in Indian Markets
Jha, A.K.; Singh, K.M.; Singh, R.K.P. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Market integration is an important determinant of responsiveness and behavior of the markets needed to formulate price policies. Indian wholesale milk markets are correlated with varying degrees of integration. Paper uses monthly wholesale prices of milk for the period from April 1997 to...
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Ausgewählte Analysen zu den Rahmenbedingungen und zur Wettbewerbsfähigkeit des Gartenbaus in Deutschland
Ludwig-Ohm, Sabine; Dirksmeyer, Walter - Bundesforschungsinstitut für Lädliche Räume, Wald … - 2013
Im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz (BMELV) wurden am Thünen-Institut für Betriebswirtschaft verschiedene Analysen durchgeführt, die als Grundlage für die Ausarbeitung einer BMELV-Zukunftsstrategie Gartenbau genutzt werden sollen. Die...
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The Impact of Climatic Change on Agricultural Production: Is it different for Africa?
Barrios, Salvador; Ouattara, Bazoumanna; Strobl, Eric - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
This paper examines the impact of climatic change on the level of total agricultural production of Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) and non-Sub-Sahara Africa (NSSA) developing countries. In doing so it uses a new cross-country panel climatic dataset in an agricultural production framework. The results...
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