Transaction costs play a key role in the behaviour of smallholders in developing countries. We investigate smallholder … tobacco cultivation in Malawi, Malawi's major export crop, and exploit the introduction of an additional tobacco auction floor … to measure the impact of a reduction in transaction costs on smallholders' decisions on tobacco crop area and production …

Transaction costs play a key role in the behaviour of smallholders in developing countries. We exploit the quasi … experimental design of the introduction of an additional tobacco auction floor in Malawi in order to investigate the impact of a … of tobacco, the major cash crop in Malawi. Estimations are based on annual data by Extension Planning Area, 198 in total …

Transaction costs play a key role in the behaviour of smallholders in developing countries. We exploit the introduction … of an additional tobacco auction floor in Malawi to investigate the impact of a reduction in transaction costs and … improved market access on production per hectare and the underlying smallholder’s decisions on production and cultivated area …

Transaction costs play a key role in the behaviour of smallholders in developing countries. We investigate smallholder … tobacco cultivation in Malawi, Malawi’s major export crop, and exploit the introduction of an additional tobacco auction floor … to measure the impact of a reduction in transaction costs on smallholders’ decisions on tobacco crop area and production …

We measure the impact of the Farmers Income Diversification Program (FIDP), an EU funded program implemented in Malawi … and trade of subsistence farmers. The geographical spread of the implementation of FIDP is exploited to identify its … impact. Computations are based on annual data by Extension Planning Area, 198 in total, fully covering Malawi, for the period …

We measure the impact of the Farmers Income Diversification Program (FIDP), an EU funded program implemented in Malawi … and trade of subsistence farmers. The geographical spread of the implementation of FIDP is exploited to identify its … impact. Computations are based on annual data by Extension Planning Area, 198 in total, fully covering Malawi, for the period …

The 2009 Africa Mining Vision (AMV) provides guidance for the industrialization of African countries by leveraging … policy for Africa, including through the increased extraction of minerals needed in clean energy application and the greening …

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 …