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The Climate Challenge for Agriculture and the Value of Climate Services : Application to Coffee-Farming in Peru

Lechthaler, Filippo - 2016

The use of climate information in economic activities, typically provided by climate services, may serve as a possible adaptation strategy to changing climate conditions. The present paper analyzes the value of climate services aimed at improving agricultural productivity through a reduction in...

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Deals Versus Rules : Policy Implementation Uncertainty and Why Firms Hate it

Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Khun Jush, Gita; Pritchett, Lant - 2010

Firms in Africa report "regulatory and economic policy uncertainty" as a top constraint to their growth. We argue that … often firms in Africa do not cope with policy rules, rather they face deals; firm-specific policy actions that can be … uncorrelated with ex-post firm-level responses, further evidence that deals rather than rules prevail in Africa. Strikingly, the …

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Fertilizer by Phone: Esoko Enhances African Farmers' Livelihoods through Innovations in Data Access (Innovations Case Narrative: Esoko)

Davies, Mark - In: Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization 7 (2012) 4, pp. 27-41

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Do organic inputs in African subsistence agriculture raise productivity? : evidence from plot data of Malawi household surveys

Zant, Wouter - 2014

with livestock and chemical fertilizer, is shown to be statistically similar to productivity of fertilized maize mono …

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Productivity, credit, risk, and the demand for weather index insurance in smallholder agriculture in Ethiopia

McIntosh, Craig; Sarris, Alexander; Papadopoulos, Fotis - In: Agricultural economics : the journal of the … 44 (2013) 4/5, pp. 399-417

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Economic impact of rising fertilizer prices on the cereals budget

Petre, Ionut Laurentiu - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : trends and …, (pp. 170-176). 2022

the fertilizer market that led to accelerated price increases for this category of inputs. The income and expenditure …

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Tradeoffs and complementarities in the adoption of improved seeds, fertilizer, and natural resource management technologies in Kenya

Wainaina, Priscilla; Songporne Tongruksawattana; Qaim, Matin - In: Agricultural economics : the journal of the … 47 (2016) 3, pp. 351-362

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Weather information for smallholders : evidence from a pilot field experiment in Benin

Yegbemey, Rosaine Nérice; Bensch, Gunther; Vance, Colin - 2021

Weather conditions are an important determinant of agricultural factor input, particularly labor allocation. The availability of weather forecasts can therefore lead to efficiency gains in the form of cost decreases and productivity increases. We test the practical feasibility, the uptake, and...

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How does market access for smallholders affect export supply? : the case of tobacco marketing in Malawi

Zant, Wouter - 2016

Transaction costs play a key role in the behaviour of smallholders in developing countries. We investigate smallholder tobacco cultivation in Malawi, Malawi's major export crop, and exploit the introduction of an additional tobacco auction floor to measure the impact of a reduction in...

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Food standards, certification, and poverty among coffee farmers in Uganda

Chiputwa, Brian; Qaim, Matin; Spielman, David J. - 2013

Private standards are gaining in importance in global markets for high-value foods. We analyze and compare impacts of three sustainability oriented standards – Fairtrade, Organic, and UTZ – on the livelihoods of smallholder coffee farmers in Uganda. Using survey data and propensity score...

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