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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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This study provides empirical evidence of factors that influence the adoption of an improved groundnut variety (La Fleur 11), and chemical fertilizer in the Senegalese Groundnut Basin. Pooled cross-sectional time-series farm level data collected in the Basin are used to estimate univariate and...
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Senegal banned all imports of uncooked poultry meat in 2006 in response to Avian Influenza outbreaks in many exporting … Senegal's broiler farms. To do so, we employ various comparative analyses at the farm and macro levels. We use the synthetic … control method to estimate the effects on total production, which shows that Senegal’s chicken meat production increased more …
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household-level implications of increased foreign investments and trade in the horticulture sector in Senegal. In many aspects …
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In this paper we address the question of firm-nonfirm linkages at the household level for a case-study in Senegal. We … data from a household survey in the main horticulture export region in Senegal. We find that access to unskilled employment …
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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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household-level implications of increased foreign investments and trade in the horticulture sector in Senegal. In many aspects …
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In this paper we address the question of farm-nonfarm linkages at the household level for a case-study in Senegal. We … data from a household survey in the main horticulture export region in Senegal. We find that access to unskilled employment …
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This study examines on-farm post-harvest losses (PHL) for three vegetable crops (onion, tomato, and pimento) in Senegal …
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This study examines on-farm post-harvest losses (PHL) for three vegetable crops (onion, tomato, and pimento) in Senegal …
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