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Incentives to labour migration and agricultural productivity : the Bayesian perspective

Djuikom, Marie Albertine - 2018

Understanding how internal labour migration affects the agricultural sector is important for all developing countries whose markets do not work well or are non-existent. In fact, even if the movement out of the agricultural sector can be viewed as a process to reach development for many African...

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Sectoral wage gaps and gender in rural India

Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2021

Using detailed monthly panel data from rural India, this paper analyzes sectoral wage gaps for men and women. I document three important findings. First, there is clear evidence of sorting into sectors, with very large differences in worker human capital across the farm and non-farm sectors and...

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Farm size and income distribution of Latin American agriculture : new perspectives on an old issue

Gáfaro, Margarita; Ibáñez, Ana María; … - 2023

Latin American and Caribbean countries have historically been known for their rates of land inequality, highest in the world. However, these countries also exhibit a high degree of heterogeneity in their patterns of land concentration and average farm sizes. These cross-country differences play...

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Long-Range Forecasts As Climate Adaptation : Experimental Evidence From Developing-Country Agriculture

Burlig, Fiona; Jina, Amir; Kelley, Erin M.; Lane, Gregory V. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Climate change increases weather variability, exacerbating agricultural risk in poor countries. Risk-averse farmers are unable to tailor their planting decisions to the coming season, and underinvest in profitable inputs. Accurate, long-range forecasts enable farmers to optimize for the season...

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Can agricultural extension and input support be discontinued? : evidence from a randomized phaseout in Uganda

Fishman, Ram; Smith, Stephen C.; Bobić, Vida; … - 2019

A society that believes wealth to be determined by random "luck", rather than by merit, demands more redistribution. We present evidence of this behavior by exploiting a natural experiment provided by the L'Aquila earthquake in 2009, which hit a large area of Central Italy through a series of...

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Brazil's agricultural total factor productivity growth by farm size

Helfand, Steven M.; Magalhães, Marcelo; Rada, Nicholas E. - 2015

country's dual agricultural policy focus towards large commercial agribusiness enterprises, led by the Ministry of Agriculture …

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Entrepreneurship and the reallocation of African farmers

Naudé, Wim - 2015

African agriculture's importance for sustainable development is well appreciated. Indeed, recent years have seen a … physical resources across occupations and space, and without which agriculture and industrial development, and hence structural … agriculture and focus on the literature on entrepreneurship in Africa's structural transformation. I present a conceptual model to …

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Commercialization in agriculture in rural Viet Nam, 2006 - 14

McKay, Andrew D.; Cazzuffi, Chiara; Perge, Emilie - 2015

livelihood. Moreover, this agriculture has become increasingly commercialized over time. This paper uses the five wave VARHS …

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A mixed-methods study of Bambara farming in Mtwara, Tanzania

Boulay, Basile - 2017

Bambara. We show that Bambara is often seen as a vital crop for food consumption and food security, as it is easy to grow and …

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Revisiting the old debate : on the relationship between size and productivity in Tanzania

Boulay, Basile - 2018

The debate on the existence of an inverse relationship between farm size and productivity is probably one of the oldest debates in the development economics literature. While publication of more detailed agricultural data has pushed for an empirical revival of the topic, the concept of size is...

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