regression model to examine the adoption and impact of organic certification on the return on investment (ROI). The empirical …

of land investment by married couples in villages where widows do not inherit. Concern over prospective loss of land by … the wives reduces investment in land quality even while the husband is alive …

Between 2001 and 2012, Latin America and the Caribbean's (LAC) agriculture saw its best performance of the last 30 … years. Given the importance of agricultural R&D investment to sustain agricultural growth in the future, this study looks at … the state of agricultural R&D investment in LAC, and analyzes the role that this investment played in the performance of …

A key feature of economic growth is the inevitable structural change across sectors: the agriculture sector shrinks … reveal that the historical investment rates in today's developed countries also follow a similar hump pattern. This paper … modernization of agriculture is the fundamental mechanism which forms these two hump-shaped patterns simultaneously. We construct a …

may mute their impact on productive investment. In an experiment in Malawi, we cross-cut cash transfers with an "input … fair," designed to reduce transport costs to access agricultural inputs. Cash alone increases investment by 27%, while the … joint provision of cash and the input fair increases investment by about 40%; thus, the incremental effect of the input fair …

Underinvestment in agriculture -- a major cause of rural poverty -- may be due to difficulties to detect 'contingency …', defined as the influence one may exert on the distribution of returns on investment. Recently experienced contingency may … create a mismatch between perceived and actual contingency, leading to sub-optimal investment behaviour. To test this, we use …

Viet Nam needs huge investment in the energy sector in the coming 30 years to satisfy the rapid increase in the energy … country expects from relying mostly on private investment. This study analyzes the fundamental issues in accelerating the …

popular scale of assessment is district level in case of Indian agriculture. Despite several evolving methods of vulnerability …