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Agricultural input subsidies and productivity : the case of Paraguayan farmers

Lopez, Cesar Augusto; Salazar, Lina; Salvo, Carmine Paolo de - 2017

quasiexperimental approach (Propensity Score Matching), this study estimates the impact of receiving an agricultural input donation on …

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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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Self-selection into credit markets: Evidence from agriculture in Mali

Beaman, Lori; Karlan, Dean; Thuysbaert, Bram; Udry, … - 2014

We partnered with a micro-lender in Mali to randomize credit offers at the village level. Then, in no-loan control …

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Self-selection into credit markets : evidence from agriculture in Mali

Beaman, Lori; Karlan, Dean; Thuysbaert, Bram; Udry, … - 2014

We partnered with a micro-lender in Mali to randomize credit offers at the village level. Then, in no-loan control …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010385235

Self‐Selection into Credit Markets : Evidence from Agriculture in Mali

Beaman, Lori - 2015

We partnered with a micro-lender in Mali to randomize credit offers at the village level. Then, in no-loan control …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020442

Chapter 53 Fertilizers and other farm chemicals

Heisey, Paul W.; Norton, George W. - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 3: …, (pp. 2741-2777). 2007

Demand for fertilizer in developing countries has expanded at a rapid rate over the past forty years. The relative … development of complementary Green Revolution technologies – high yielding, fertilizer responsive seed varieties and expansion of … irrigation or better water control within irrigated systems. At the same time, real fertilizer prices have declined over time …

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Weathering shocks : the effects of weather shocks on farm input use in sub-Saharan Africa

Nsabimana, Aimable - 2022

fertilizer use reduces much more in drought-prone areas than in less drought-prone areas during growing seasons. I also find that … purposively reduce farm investments, including yield-enhancing technology such as chemical fertilizer, hence worsening adverse …

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Nutrition Incentives in Dairy Contract Farming in Northern Senegal

Tanguy, Bernard - 2017

Health-related incentives to reward effort or commitment are commonplace in many professional contracts throughout the world. Typically absent from small-scale agriculture in poor countries, such incentives may help overcome both health issues for remote rural families and supply issues for...

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Post-Communist Transition in Bulgaria - Implications for Development of Agricultural Specialization and Farming Structures

Bachev, Hrabrin - 2015

This paper incorporates a new inter-disciplinary methodology of the New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics, and examines pace, factors and modes for post-communist agricultural specialization and farming structures development in Bulgaria. Firstly, it presents the specific Bulgarian...

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Agricultural Plots, Labor Allocation, and Income Hiding in Ethiopia

Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2019

Past research has found that pressures to share income with family members and relatives can incentivize individuals to hide income, possibly distorting labor allocation and leading to inefficiencies. Due to the difficulty of observing hidden income, the majority of this research has used...

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