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Investment in improved agricultural inputs is infrequent for smallholder farmers in Africa. One barrier may be limited …
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Mobile phone based money services have spread rapidly in many developing countries. We analyze micro level impacts using panel data from smallholder farmers in Kenya. Mobile money use has a large positive net impact on household income. One important pathway is through remittances, which...
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livestock to adapt to a severe typhoon.We, therefore, make use of a natural experiment coming from the strong typhoon Ketsana in …. While they decrease the crops-planted area, they tend to purchase more livestock in the short term and in the medium term …. Our paper not only indicates the adjustment to the crop-livestock system as an adaptation strategy to a severe typhoon …
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attributable to drought-induced increases in the price of milk solids (New Zealand is the market maker in this global market). In … current (same fiscal year) drought events have positive impacts on dairy farms' revenue and profit; this effect is most likely … general, dairy farmers "benefit" more from drought events when compared to sheep/beef farms, whereas the latter sector has …
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attributable to drought-induced increases in the price of milk solids (New Zealand is the market maker in this global market). In … current (same fiscal year) drought events have positive impacts on dairy farms’ revenue and profit; this effect is most likely … general, dairy farmers ‘benefit’ more from drought events when compared to sheep/beef farms, whereas the latter sector has …
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, respectively. Tomato cultivation is not recommended in any period. Calculation of opportunity costs shows, shadow price for land …, variation range of profit is very high while changing of crops price and inputs restriction. In other words, provision of both … goals (maximum profit and minimum water use) increase both price and production risk for farmers …
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