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Beyond adoption : welfare effects of farmer innovation behavior in Ghana
Tambo, Justice A.; Wünscher, Tobias - 2016
income, consumption expenditure, and food security. Using household survey data from northern Ghana and applying endogenous …
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Mobile money, market transactions, and household income in rural Kenya
Kikulwe, Enoch M.; Fischer, Elisabeth; Qaim, Matin - 2013
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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Rural Shadow Wages and Youth Agricultural Labor Supply in Ethiopia : Evidence from Farm Panel Data
Sakketa, Takalign - 2017
The majority of the youth in Ethiopia live in rural areas where agriculture is the main source of livelihood. Using … prospects of youth's labor supply in agriculture across space (farm locations). We also analyse whether the household male and … results indicate that trends and patterns of the youth's involvement in agriculture vary across gender and farm work locations …
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Agricultural Plots, Labor Allocation, and Income Hiding in Ethiopia
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2019
Past research has found that pressures to share income with family members and relatives can incentivize individuals to hide income, possibly distorting labor allocation and leading to inefficiencies. Due to the difficulty of observing hidden income, the majority of this research has used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012898418
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Insecure Land Tenure, Social Protection, and Resource Misallocation : Evidence from China's Agricultural Sector
Ma, Meilin - 2020
Smallholder farmers usually face insecure land rights and limited social protection, so that farmland serves as an important safety net against income shocks. Safety-net value of farmland makes the loss of land rights extra costly and strengthens the well-documented incentive for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825449
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Small-Scale Farming and Food Security : The Enabling Role of Cash Transfers in South Africa's Former Homelands
von Fintel, Dieter - 2016
Cash transfers successfully alleviate poverty in many developing countries. South Africa is a case in point, implementing one of the largest unconditional cash transfer programmes internationally, and with substantial benefits to household well-being along multiple dimensions. Yet, grants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978169
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Rural shadow wages and youth agricultural labor supply in Ethiopia : Evidence from Farm Panel Data
Sakketa, Tekalign Gutu; Gerber, Nicolas - In: Change at home, in the labor market, and on the job, (pp. 61-106). 2021
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Small-scale Mining and Agricultural Development : Evidence from Northwestern Tanzania
Poignant, Adrian - 2022
The relationship between rural industries and agriculture during the early stages of economic development is not well … contradict the hypothesis that rural non-farm sector activities generate positive spillover effects for smallholder agriculture …
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An analysis of agricultural production in Pakistan : a study based on the asymmetric role of inputs
Iqbal, Naveed; Sial, Maqbool H.; Saleem, Adeel - In: Pakistan journal of applied economics : PJAE 31 (2021) 2, pp. 191-208
Agricultural inputs are peculiar in nature as an asymmetry in their roles can be identified during the production process. These inputs can be grouped into a set of growth inputs or a set of facilitating inputs. The inputs affecting biological or physiological growth from the inside of the plant...
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What stayers do? : capital endowments and on-farm transitions in Rural China
Wang, Hao; Fidrmuc, Jan; Luo, Qi; Luo, Mingzhong - 2018
agriculture, little is known about the changes within the rural agricultural sector. Yet, the agricultural sector continues to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011926385