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Did the plan Sénégal emergent affect cropping decisions in the Senegal River Basin?

Moss, Charles B.; Mbaye, Samba; Naseem, Anwar; Oehmke, … - In: Economies : open access journal 6 (2018) 3, pp. 1-17

developing economies from subsistence to commercial agriculture. Senegal’s Plan Sénégal Emergent (PSE) provides a data point in … this discussion. Senegal and international donors invested in agricultural supply chains starting in 2012 to facilitate the … emergence of commercial agriculture for peanuts, rice, and vegetables. This study focuses on these investments in the Senegal …

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Farm Productivity and Market Structure. Evidence From Cotton Reforms in Zambia

Brambilla, Irene; Porto, Guido G. - 2005

This paper investigates the impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm productivity, a key element for poverty alleviation, in rural Zambia. The reforms comprised the elimination of the Zambian cotton marketing board that was in place since 1977. Following liberalization, the sector adopted an...

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Farm productivity and market structure : evidence from cotton reforms in Zambia

Brambilla, Irene; Porto, Guido G. - 2005

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Agricultural input subsidies and productivity : the case of Paraguayan farmers

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

It is a well-known fact that a great majority of countries implement agricultural input subsidies as a tool to boost agricultural productivity and output. However, even though this practice is widely spread and represents a large part of the agricultural budget, little emphasis has been placed...

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Crop diversification and technical efficiency in Afghanistan : stochastic frontier analysis

Ahmadzai, Hayatullah - 2017

Using Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA), this paper centered on analysing the impact of Crop Diversification (CD) on farm level technical efficiency in Afghanistan. Data from a household level survey conducted in 2013-2004 by the Central Statistic Organization (CSO) is used in the analysis. The...

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Farm productivity and market structure : evidence from cotton reforms in Zambia

Brambilla, Irene; Porto, Guido G. - 2005

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Farm Productivity and Market Structure. Evidence from Cotton Reforms in Zambia

Brambilla, Irene; Porto, Guido G. - 2006

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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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Agricultural supply response and poverty in Mozambique

Heltberg, Rasmus; Tarp, Finn - 2001

This paper identifies the key causal factors behind farmers’ marketing decisions in Mozambique. A two-step decision making process is modelled. Farmers decide, first, whether or not to participate in the market and, second, how much to market. The model is estimated using a Heckman switching...

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Framework for Assessing Environmental Management in Agriculture

Bachev, Hrabrin - 2012

This paper incorporates interdisciplinary New Institutional Economics and suggests a holistic framework for assessing the forms and efficiency of environmental management in agriculture. First, it defines environmental management as a specific system of social order regulating behaviour and...

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