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The past 30 years have seen a consistent increase in agricultural commercialization in rural Viet Nam, at the same time when rural residents have moved increasingly into non-agricultural activities. The contribution of the latter to welfare improvement and poverty reduction is well known; in...
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created and governed so that they include smallholders in a sustainable manner. Brazil has historical experience with … to smallholders. Part 2 describes four different small-scale ethanol systems. These cases are analysed and considered as …, cane-producing smallholders may profit from this in particular. There are several specificities to the Brazilian model …
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This article demonstrates how Integrated Agricultural Research for Development (IAR4D) impacts on collective marketing among smallholder farmers of southern Africa through increased crop productivity, yields and income. We use a quasi-experimental design to compare outcomes under IAR4D and under...
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We investigate the impact of smallholder vegetable commercialization through the export and domestic market channels on household income and assets in Kenya. We use a survey panel dataset, which allows us to control for unobserved heterogeneity across households, and show that the...
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This paper describes the participation of smallholders in commercial horticultural farming in Kenya and identifies … for unobserved heterogeneity across farmers. We find that participation of smallholders in both the domestic and export …
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