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Did the plan Sénégal emergent affect cropping decisions in the Senegal River Basin?

Moss, Charles B.; Mbaye, Samba; Naseem, Anwar; Oehmke, … - In: Economies : open access journal 6 (2018) 3, pp. 1-17

developing economies from subsistence to commercial agriculture. Senegal’s Plan Sénégal Emergent (PSE) provides a data point in … this discussion. Senegal and international donors invested in agricultural supply chains starting in 2012 to facilitate the … emergence of commercial agriculture for peanuts, rice, and vegetables. This study focuses on these investments in the Senegal …

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Following up on smallholder farmers and supermarkets

Andersson, Camilla I. M.; Kiria, Christine G.; Qaim, Matin - 2013

In many developing countries, supermarkets are expanding rapidly. This also affects farmers’ marketing options. Previous studies have analyzed welfare effects for smallholders with crosssection data. Here, we use panel data and a differencing approach to study supply chain dynamics and better...

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Crop diversification and technical efficiency in Afghanistan: Stochastic frontier analysis

Ahmadzai, Hayatullah - 2017

Using Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA), this paper centered on analysing the impact of Crop Diversification (CD) on farm level technical efficiency in Afghanistan. Data from a household level survey conducted in 2013-2004 by the Central Statistic Organization (CSO) is used in the analysis. The...

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Storage infrastructure and agricultural yield: Evidence from a capital investment subsidy scheme

Chatterjee, Somdeep - 2018

In a developing economy, the availability of storage infrastructure is considered essential for two purposes; the reduction of post-harvest losses resulting in food shortage, and allowing for gains from inter-temporal trade due to potential arbitrage opportunities arising out of volatility in...

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Storage infrastructure and agricultural yield: Evidence from a capital investment subsidy scheme

Chatterjee, Somdeep - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 12 (2018) 2018-65, pp. 1-19

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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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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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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

It is a well-known fact that a great majority of countries implement agricultural input subsidies as a tool to boost agricultural productivity and output. However, even though this practice is widely spread and represents a large part of the agricultural budget, little emphasis has been placed...

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Farmers' preferences for supermarket contracts in Kenya

Ochieng, Dennis O.; Veettil, Prakashan Chellattan; … - 2016

With the modernization of global agri-food systems, the role of contract farming is increasing. This also involves smallholder farmers in developing countries. While previous studies have looked at economic impacts of contract schemes on smallholder farmers, little is known about farmers'...

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