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Financial Services and Divisible Technology Dis-adoption among Farm Households: Theory and Empirical Application Using Data from Ethiopia

Guizar-Mateos, Isai; Dadzie, Nicholas - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

The adoption of improved varieties and technologies by rural agricultural households remains a major goal in development efforts. This is because researchers and development practitioners recognize it as a potential source of income growth for the poor. However, while studies on adoption of...

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Do Remittances Alter Household Nutrition? Evidence from Rural Kilimanjaro in Tanzania

Isoto, Rosemary; Kraybill, David - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

of rural households in Tanzania. Due to endogeneity of net income and remittances, special focus is placed on econometric …

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Yield and Income Effects of the Green Super Rice (GSR) Varieties: Evidence from a Fixed-Effects Model in the Philippines

Yorobe, Jose Jr; Pede, Valerien; Rejesus, Roderick; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

With the increasing frequency of extreme climatic events, the new challenge is to develop rice varieties that are tolerant of drought, water submergence, and salinity. There are now new high yielding GSR cultivars developed at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) with increased...

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Rural land rental markets in Southern Africa: trends, drivers, and impacts on household welfare in Malawi and Zambia

Chamberlin, Jordan; Ricker-Gilbert, Jacob - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA

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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Aflatoxins: A Negative Nexus between Agriculture, Nutrition and health

Narayan, Tulika; Belova, Anna; Haskell, Jacqueline - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012

-contaminated maize and groundnuts in Nigeria and Tanzania. Based on the published aflatoxin sampling results for Nigeria, we estimated … Tanzania, the prevalence of aflatoxins is lower than in Nigeria. However, exposure to aflatoxins could still be significant … third of the total estimated liver cancer cases in Tanzania in 2010. The monetized health impact at the 5ppb aflatoxin B1 …

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Do Trade Agreements Increase Food Trade?

Mujahid, Irfan; Kalkuhl, Matthias - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

In addition to multilateral trade agreements under the World Trade Organization (WTO), the world has seen a remarkable proliferation of regional trade agreements (RTAs) in the last two decades. This study investigates the impacts of these multilateral and regional trade institutions on food...

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Bestimmungsgründe der globalen Ausbreitung der ökologischen Landwirtschaft – eine ökonometrische Analyse

Lakner, Sebastian; Heinrich, Barbara; Hernández … - Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften … - 2013

Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht die Bestimmungsgründe der weltweiten Ausbreitung der ökologischen Landwirtschaft. Basierend auf der einschlägigen Literatur und in Anlehnung an die Standorttheorie wird zunächst ein theoretisches Modell für die Verbreitung des Ökolandbaus entwickelt....

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A Typology of Food Security in Developing Countries under High Food Prices

Yu, Bingxin; You, Liangzhi; Fan, Shenggen - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

The recent surge in food prices around the world may reverse the gains of reducing hunger and poverty in the recent years. This paper employs factor and sequential typology analysis using data for 175 countries to identify groups of countries categorized according to four measures of food...

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What are the social impacts of land use restrictions on local communities? Empirical evidence from Costa Rica

Andam, Kwaw S.; Ferraro, Paul J.; Holland, Margaret B. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

Global efforts to reduce deforestation rely heavily on protected areas and land use restrictions. The effect of these restrictions on local communities is currently the subject of heated debate among conservation and development experts. Measuring the social impacts of protected areas is...

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