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understanding. Reviewing recent evidence from Kenya, we show that buying food in supermarkets instead of traditional outlets … contributes to overnutrition among adults, while reducing undernutrition among children. For farm households, supplying …
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Agricultural innovations are seen as a key avenue to improve nutrition and health in smallholder farm households. But details of these agriculture-nutrition-health linkages are not yet well understood. While there is a broad literature on the adoption of agricultural technologies, most studies...
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CRIAR is to increase smallholders' agricultural income and food security through productivity improvements triggered by …
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. Previous studies have analyzed welfare effects for smallholders with crosssection data. Here, we use panel data and a … analysis focuses on vegetable producers in Kenya. Participation in supermarket channels is associated with large income gains …
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not yet sufficiently tailored to the needs and preferences of smallholders. We combine survey and choice-experimental data … from Kenya to analyze an existing WII program and how changes in contractual design might encourage uptake. Better training …
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Synthetic pesticides can be detrimental to the health of humans, particularly when handled inappropriately, which is often the case in developing countries. We investigate to what extent using personal protective equipment (PPE) during pesticide application can mitigate the detrimental health...
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supermarket and traditional channel farmers. This study uses panel data from vegetable farmers in Kenya to examine the effects of …. Using these results for simple simulations suggests that wider participation of smallholders in supermarket channels could … market access could significantly contribute to reduction of undernourishment and micronutrient malnutrition and increased …
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Mobile money (MM) services can contribute to welfare gains in smallholder farm households. Previous research showed that one important pathway is through higher remittances received from relatives and friends. Here, the role of other impact pathways is examined, especially focusing on...
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The last decade has seen a resurgence of parastatal crop marketing institutions in sub-Saharan Africa, many of which …
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