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Peeing out of poverty? : human fertilizer and the productivity of farming households
Pettersson, Jan; Wikström, Johan - 2013
community level. -- household productivity ; ecological sanitation ; UDDT ; Mali ; fertilizer ; matching …In many parts of the world, soils poor in nutrients are farmed with little addition of fertilizer, further depleting … sanitation and at recycling nutrients as fertilizer. This human fertilizer may act as a substitute for artificial fertilizers …
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A Spatiotemporal Model of Forest Cover Dynamics and Household Land Use Decisions by Subsistence Farmers in Southern Cameroon
Brown, Douglas R. - 2013
Shifting cultivation is one of many phenomena involving the interaction of humans with their natural environment, for which the spatial and temporal dimensions are essential to understanding the system. As a spatiotemporal phenomenon, shifting cultivation uses forest resources to provide the...
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A first step up the energy ladder? : low cost solar kits and household’s welfare in rural Rwanda
Grimm, Michael; Munyehirwe, Anicet; Peters, Jörg; … - 2015
More than 1.3 billion people in developing countries are lacking access to electricity. Based on the assumption that electricity is a prerequisite for human development, the United Nations initiative Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) has proclaimed the goal of providing modern energy to all by...
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Respondent Biases in Household Surveys
Dillon, Andrew; Mensah, Edouard Romeo - 2021
-report labor relative to self-reported labor. Female respondents report lower levels of fertilizer and higher frequencies of crops …
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Land and labor reallocation in pre-modern Japan : a case of a northeastern village in 1720-1870
Arimoto, Yutaka; Kurosu, Satomi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015
In agricultural societies, adjusting land and labor according to changes of labor endowment that result from family life cycle events is premised on making full use of resources for each farming household and for the economy as a whole. This paper examines how and how well households in...
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Gender, Agricultural Production, and the Theory of the Household
Udry, Christopher - 2015
Virtually all models of the household assume that the allocation of resources is Pareto efficient. Within many African households, agricultural production occurs on many plots controlled by different members of the household. Pareto efficiency implies that factors should be allocated efficiently...
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Chapter 51 Household Formation and Marriage Markets in Rural Areas
Fafchamps, Marcel; Quisumbing, Agnes R. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 4, (pp. 3187-3247). 2007
is the process by which the main building block of most households is formed. After discussing assortative matching and …
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Credit Constraint Impacts on Farm Households : Survey Results from India and China
Kumar, Chandra - 2014
India and China have the largest farm-household populations in the world and in many areas also the poorest. Among the many factors that affect farm livelihoods access to credit has been identified as a significant barrier. While there has been a significant literature on credit constraints in...
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Savings groups reduce vulnerability, but have mixed effects on financial inclusion
Frisancho Robles, Verónica; Valdivia, J. Martín - 2020
This paper evaluates the impact of the introduction of savings groups on poverty, vulnerability, and financial inclusion outcomes in rural Peru. Using a cluster randomized control trial and relying on both survey and administrative records, we investigate the impact of savings groups after more...
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Posh spice or scary spice? The impacts of Madagascar's vanilla boom on household well-being
Boone, Christopher; Kaila, Heidi; Sahn, David E. - 2022
We contribute to the long debate on whether export commodity revenues can lead to economic development by studying the consequences of the nearly six-fold increase in the global price of vanilla on vanilla farming communities in Madagascar. We find a substantial increase in the wealth and...
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