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to determine smallholder farmers’ decision and willingness to adopt jatropha into cropping systems in Malawi. Employing …
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Using data from the Malawi Financial Markets and Household Food Security Survey, this paper examines the effect of …
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unimproved seed. In turn Malawi’s groundnut exports have also generally dwindled over time. The analysis of Malawian groundnut …
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Risk and uncertainty have been extensively studied by agricultural economists. In this paper we question (a) the predominant use of static frameworks to formally analyse risk; (b) the predominant focus on risk aversion as the motivation for considering risk and (c) the notion that explicitly...
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During the last decade, cotton production and area have been declining as a result of depleting soil nutrients and low cotton prices in the cotton zone of Mali. This paper shows that the Malian government’s 2011 policy to increase the farm gate cotton price as a response to world cotton price...
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Despite the rapid producer adoption of hybrid rice (Oryza sativa L.) in recent years, the economic advantage of hybrid rice in the mid-Southern United States remains disputed. This study compares the economic risk and return of three popularly sown hybrid rice varieties: XL723, Clearfield® (CL)...
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This is a draft paper, submitted in advance of presentation at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association.
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from Malawi. …
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effects of fertilizer subsidies on retail maize prices in Malawi and Zambia using market or district-level panel data covering … the 2000/01 to 2011/12 maize marketing years. Results indicate that roughly doubling the size of Malawi’s subsidy program … fertilizer subsidy programs in Malawi and Zambia have had a minimal effect on reducing retail maize prices. …
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analysis uses Malawi, a country that earns most of its foreign exchange from tobacco, as a case study of export concentration … and heavy exposure to volatility. The econometric results suggest that the decline in Malawi’s gross domestic product (GDP … yield and improvements in marketing efficiency, however, can help buffer Malawi’s GDP from variability in export revenues. …
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