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agriculture and focus on the literature on entrepreneurship in Africa's structural transformation. I present a conceptual model to …African agriculture's importance for sustainable development is well appreciated. Indeed, recent years have seen a … physical resources across occupations and space, and without which agriculture and industrial development, and hence structural …
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Mobile phone based money services have spread rapidly in many developing countries. We analyze micro level impacts using panel data from smallholder farmers in Kenya. Mobile money use has a large positive net impact on household income. One important pathway is through remittances, which...
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portfolio model of activity choices in war-affected rural Sub-Saharan Africa. A case study using farm household survey data …
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agriculture and focus on the literature on entrepreneurship in Africa's structural transformation. I present a conceptual model to …African agriculture's importance for sustainable development is well appreciated. Indeed, recent years have seen a … physical resources across occupations and space, and without which agriculture and industrial development, and hence structural …
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Agricultural mechanization is on the rise in Africa. A widespread replacement of manual labor will change the face of … African agriculture. Despite this potentially transformative role, only few studies have looked at the potential effects of …
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We use newly-available Indian panel data to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. We show that the forecasts significantly affect farmer investment decisions and that these responses account for a substantial fraction of the inter-annual...
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This paper examines the current interest in addressing the problem of young people's unemployment in Africa through … agriculture. Using notions of transitions and mobilities we set out a transformative work and opportunity space framework that … that seek to engage young people with agriculture must be more realistic, rooted in more context-specific economic and …
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We use newly-available Indian panel data to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. We show that the forecasts significantly affect farmer investment decisions and that these responses account for a substantial fraction of the inter-annual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369064
The 1 August 2004 Framework Agreement stated that developing countries would have access to a Special Safeguard Mechanism and Special Products designation as part of special and differential treatment within a new WTO Doha Round agricultural agreement. This was confirmed in the Ministerial...
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, important for Africa’s agricultural transformation. Thus, this study aims at examining how Africa’s agricultural sector can be …
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