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Entwicklungsländern aufgrund von Armut und mangelhaften landwirtschaftlichen Versicherungen noch komplexer. Landwirte mit niedrigem … issues are more complex in developing countries due to poverty and shortcomings in agricultural insurances. Poor farmers who …
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Agricultural extension programs often train a few farmers and count on diffusion through social networks for the …-step experiment of an agronomy training program among Rwandan coffee farmers, we first randomize the concentration of trainees at the … farmers. We find no evidence of social diffusion; instead, control households experienced negative spillovers in high …
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through text messages in Kenya and Rwanda. The programs shared similar objectives but were implemented by three different … farmers across all experiments, we are sufficiently powered to detect small effects in real input purchase choices. Combining …
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-trained farmers. Based on a study in Senegal this paper hypothesizes that the question of the project placement strategy is vital when … analyzing knowledge diffusion effects of FFS in Africa. Results show that the share of trained farmers in a community is a … trained farmers is important to attain effective dissemination of information and to generate positive stimuli for adoption …
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The 2007-2008 global food crisis has renewed interest in post-harvest loss, but estimates remain scarce, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper uses self-reported measures from nationally representative household surveys in Malawi, Uganda, and Tanzania. Overall, on-farm post-harvest loss...
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