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Agricultural decisions after relaxing credit and risk constraints

Karlan, Dean; Osei-Akoto, Isaac; Osei, Robert Darko; … - 2012

The investment decisions of small-scale farmers in developing countries are conditioned by their financial environment. Binding credit market constraints and incomplete insurance can reduce investment in activities with high expected profits. We conducted several experiments in northern Ghana in...

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Farm Productivity and Market Structure. Evidence From Cotton Reforms in Zambia

Brambilla, Irene; Porto, Guido G. - 2005

This paper investigates the impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm productivity, a key element for poverty alleviation, in rural Zambia. The reforms comprised the elimination of the Zambian cotton marketing board that was in place since 1977. Following liberalization, the sector adopted an...

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Social networks and farmer exposure to improved crop varieties in Tanzania

Muange, Elijah N.; Schwarze, Stefan; Qaim, Matin - 2014

In Sub-Sahara Africa, adoption rates of improved crop varieties remain relatively low, which is partly due to farmers' limited access to information. In smallholder settings, information often spreads through informal networks. Better understanding of such networks could potentially help to spur...

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Supermarket contracts, income, and changing diets of farm households: Panel data evidence from Kenya

Ochieng, Dennis O. - 2017

In many developing countries, supermarkets are increasingly replacing traditional markets as preferred points of food purchases in urban areas. This has welfare implications on smallholder farmers that supply supermarkets. While previous studies have analyzed the welfare effects of smallholder...

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Small producer participation in export vegetable supply chains and poverty: Evidence from different export schemes in Tanzania

Benali, Marwan; Brümmer, Bernhard; Afari-Sefa, Victor - 2017

With the rise and consolidation of modern supply chains, literature has put emphasis on the welfare effects for participating small producers but has often considered these effects through the comparison of participating producers with those not participating at all. Using an endogenous...

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Estimando los impactos de un programa de erradicación de la mosca de la fruta en Perú: Un enfoque de regresión discontinua geográfica

Salazar, Lina; Maffioli, Alessandro; Aramburu, Julián; … - 2016

Este documento presenta la evaluación de impacto de corto plazo de un programa de erradicación de la mosca de la fruta en las áreas costeras de Perú. Aprovechando la variación arbitraria en las fronteras de intervención del programa, así como datos precisos de la ubicación geográfica de...

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Agricultural input subsidies and productivity: The case of Paraguayan farmers

Lopez, Cesar Augusto; Salazar, Lina; de Salvo, Carmine Paolo - 2017

quasiexperimental approach (Propensity Score Matching), this study estimates the impact of receiving an agricultural input donation on …

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The linkage between outcome differences in cotton production and rural roads improvements: A matching approach

Kingombe, Christian K.M. - 2012

(EPFRP) was being implemented (1998/2002). The identification strategy relies on the implementing of matching estimators for … Untreated (TUT), which is crucial in terms of policy relevance (Arcand, 2012). Matching ensures a sub-set of non-project areas … of these treatment effects with observational PHS data sets in order to reduce the dimensionality of the matching problem …

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The impact of a feeder road project on cash crop production in Zambia's Eastern province between 1997 and 2002

Kingombe, Christian K.M.; di Falco, Salvatore - 2012

This paper investigates the dynamic impacts of rural road improvements on farm productivity and crop choices in Zambia's Eastern Province. There are several channels through which the feeder road improvements impact on farmers. Our aim is to estimate whether the differential outcomes in the five...

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Access to markets and farm efficiency: A study of rice farms in the Bicol Region, Philippines

DeSilva, Sanjaya - 2011

This paper presents an empirical investigation of the relationship between the spread, spatially and temporally, of market institutions and improvements in the productivity and efficiency of farmers. The data used in this study were collected over two decades in a sample of rice farms in the...

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