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Yielding profits? : low adoption of an improved mung bean seed variety in Southern Bangladesh

De Brauw, Alan; Kramer, Berber; Murphy, Mike - 2020

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Does climate change make foodgrain yields more unpredictable : evidence from India

Verma, Saumya; Gupta, Shreekant; Sen, Partha - 2020

How would climate change affect India’s agriculture which accounts for sixty percent of employment? We study the impact …

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The use of financial technology in the agriculture sector

McIntosh, Craig; Mansini, Caio Scuarcialupi - 2018

The finance sector has a key role to play in allowing agriculture to contribute to economic growth and poverty … takeaways for FinTech in agriculture to promote growth, enhance financial inclusion, and improve regional economic integration. …

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Food security and productivity impacts of technology adoption in small subsistence farmers in Bolivia

Salazar, Lina; Aramburu, Julián; González-Flores, Mario; … - 2015

This paper presents the impact evaluation of CRIAR program, implemented in rural areas in Bolivia. The objective of CRIAR is to increase smallholders' agricultural income and food security through productivity improvements triggered by technological adoption. In this study, we use data from a...

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Agricultural technology adoption, commercialization and smallholder rice farmers' welfare in rural Nigeria

Awotide, Bola Amoke; Karimov, Aziz A.; Diagne, Aliou - In: Agricultural and Food Economics : AFE 4 (2016) 3, pp. 1-24

This study assessed the determinants of intensity of adoption of Improved Rice Varieties (IRVs) and the effect of market participation on farmers' welfare in Nigeria using the Tobit and Heckman two-stage models, respectively. The sample consists of crosssectional data of 600 rice farmers...

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Seguridad alimentaria y productividad impactos de la adopción tecnológica en pequeños agricultores de subsistencia en Bolivia

Salazar, Lina; Aramburu, Julián; González-Flores, Mario; … - 2015

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Spatial patterns of organic agriculture adoption : evidence from Honduras

Wollni, Meike; Andersson, Camilla - 2013

agriculture can provide a means to break the downward spiral of resource degradation and poverty. We use original survey data to … analyze the factors influencing the decision to convert to organic agriculture. Previous studies have emphasized the role of … spatial patterns in the diffusion and adoption of agricultural technologies in general and organic agriculture in particular …

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Big constraints or small returns? : explaining, nonadaption of hybrid maize in Tanzania

Kathage, Jonas; Qaim, Matin; Kassie, Menale; Shiferaw, … - 2013

Modern technologies are often not widely adopted among smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa. Several adoption constraints have been discussed in the literature, including limited access to information. Using survey data from farmers in Tanzania and the average treatment effect framework, we...

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Adoption of Modern Agricultural Technologies in Bihar : A Farm Level Study

Singh, Krishna M. - 2014

, Rajshree, Mahsuri. Dep of Agriculture, ATMA and KVK were main sources of information. High proportion of large farmer had …

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The Impact of Changing Agricultural Technology on Land Tenancy in Preindustrial China : Evidence from Confucius's Manors (1759-1901)

Yang, Helen He - 2015

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, fixed-rent tenancy gradually replaced sharecropping as the dominant form of land tenancy in China. This paper posits that the shift in land tenancy was generated by the technological movement from annual cropping to multiple cropping. To test the hypothesis we...

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