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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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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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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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Heterogeneous effects of marketing contracts and resource-providing contracts on household income
Ruml, Anette; Ragasa, Catherine; Qaim, Matin - 2020
In the existing literature, the effects of contract farming on household welfare were examined with mixed results. Most studies looked at single contract types. This paper contributes to the literature by comparing two types of contracts - simple marketing contracts and resource-providing...
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The impact of commercialization of rice on household welfare in rural Viet Nam
Cazzuffi, Chiara; McKay, Andrew D.; Perge, Emilie - 2018
The past 30 years have seen a consistent increase in agricultural commercialization in rural Viet Nam, at the same time when rural residents have moved increasingly into non-agricultural activities. The contribution of the latter to welfare improvement and poverty reduction is well known; in...
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Rural Policies, Price Change and Poverty in Tanzania : An Agricultural Household Model-Based Assessment
Tiberti, Luca - 2015
Exogenous shocks to farmers' consumption, production and labour market decisions are rarely considered accurately. For farm households, under labour market imperfections, such decisions are often interlinked. This calls for non-separable agricultural household models. According to this...
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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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