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There are concerns that increasing women’s engagement in agriculture could have a negative effect on nutrition because … agriculture adversely affects maternal and child nutrition, and whether the lack of women’s time in reproductive work leads to … it limits the time available for nutrition-improving reproductive work. However, very few empirical studies have been …
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burden of malnutrition and the achievement of zero hunger. To accelerate nutrition-sensitive food environments that deliver …
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polygyny and children's nutrition, and how it may be mediated through women's bargaining power. Using the age of each co …-wife as a proxy for rank, I also study how the senior-wife status of a mother may influence her children's nutrition outcomes …
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This paper describes how modern service providers have emerged in the African agricultural sector, a subject that has been vastly understudied. The paper looks at providers of modern rice mills, power tillers, combine harvesters, and production services at a highly productive rice irrigation...
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Ghana is one of a few African countries where agricultural mechanization has recently undergone rapid development. Except for places in the forest zone where stumps are still an issue in fields, tractors used for plowing and maize shelling have been widely adopted even among small farmers....
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This study assesses whether the recent public and private efforts to improve farmers' access to mechanical power in Ghana have had the intended effects on the country's agricultural sector. Using panel survey data, this paper analyses the drivers of farm mechanization and its net impacts on...
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This paper assesses whether tractor investment is a rational and profitable decision for farmers using firm investment theory and tractor owner survey data collected in 2013. Under erratic rainfalls, timeliness of farming operations is critical for farmers. Based on the hypothesis that owning a...
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The past decade has seen several African countries increasing their agricultural growth, a trend largely underpinned by increases in land area cultivated instead of productivity increases. Meanwhile, scholars debate whether Africa should pursue a strategy of large-scale or smallholder farms,...
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children’s nutritional status. This paper investigates linkages between women’s empowerment in agriculture and the nutritional … Feed the Future programs are operating. Using a new survey-based index, the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index, which … directly measures women’s empowerment, inclusion, and agency in the agriculture sector, we conduct individual-level analyses of …
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