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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507634
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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
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Self‐Selection into Credit Markets : Evidence from Agriculture in Mali
Beaman, Lori A. - 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
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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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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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Mobile money, market transactions, and household income in rural Kenya
Kikulwe, Enoch M.; Fischer, Elisabeth; Qaim, Matin - 2013
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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012898418
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Small-scale Mining and Agricultural Development : Evidence from Northwestern Tanzania
Poignant, Adrian - 2022
The relationship between rural industries and agriculture during the early stages of economic development is not well understood, despite its potentially central role in economic transformations. I investigate the expansion of small-scale gold mining and processing in north-western Tanzania...
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Technical efficiency of smallholder agriculture in developing countries : the case of Ethiopia
Tenaye, Anbes - In: Economies : open access journal 8 (2020) 2/34, pp. 1-27
size, seeds, and fertilizer. The mean household-level efficiency for the surveyed farmers is 0.59, indicating that farmers …
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