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The study develops a formulation to decompose variability in profit into price and production effects. The production effect is further segregated into management and weather effects. The formulation is used to compare and decompose risk in the profit of three existing cropping patterns...
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Whereas the impact of Brexit on Anglophone Africa was a major issue in the controversial British discussions on the … pros and cons of Brexit, possible repercussions on French-speaking Africa have been rarely mentioned up to now. Yet, the … range of possible Brexit effect is impressive, including the revival of progressive social networks in Francophone Africa …
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This study evaluates the economic impact of severe natural disasters in Africa using the generalized synthetic control …
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This paper measures the macroeconomic impact of recent political crisis, protest and uprisings in Africa with the …
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This paper measures the macroeconomic impact of recent political crisis, protest and uprisings in Africa with the …
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This study evaluates the economic impact of severe natural disasters in Africa using the generalized synthetic control …
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. Continuing rural poverty with low productivity and fertilizer use in smallholder staple crops has led to their resurgence in … Africa. These subsidies are, however, controversial with claims of both large food security benefits and unsustainable … and 'smart' rationing and targeting. Recent programmes in Africa have a variety of generally producer-focused objectives …
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obtained and the quantity of applied fertilizer) and the nature of its intensity (low, medium, high). It is also desirable to … know the most efficient types of fertilizer in order to increase wheat yield per hectare at national level in the context …
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In many parts of the world, soils poor in nutrients are farmed with little addition of fertilizer, further depleting … sanitation and at recycling nutrients as fertilizer. This human fertilizer may act as a substitute for artificial fertilizers … investment program. We do not find any support for human fertilizer being used complementary, although the effect on yields …
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Systemic weather risk is a major obstacle for the formation of private (nonsubsidized)crop insurance. This paper explores the possibility of spatial diversification of insurance by estimating the joint occurrence of unfavorable weather conditions in different locations.For that purpose copula...
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