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Consumption smoothing and price enhancement motives for grain storage : empirical perspectives from rural Ethiopia

Tesfaye, Wondimagegn; Gebremariam, Gebrelibanos - In: Agricultural and Food Economics : AFE 8 (2020) 25, pp. 1-19

Consumption smoothing and temporal price arbitrage are the two main economic motives for grain storage in semi-subsistence economies. Nonetheless, little has been documented on the determinants of households' grain storage behavior. Using a rich panel data from maize producing households in...

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Technical efficiency of smallholder agriculture in developing countries : the case of Ethiopia

Tenaye, Anbes - In: Economies : open access journal 8 (2020) 2/34, pp. 1-27

size, seeds, and fertilizer. The mean household-level efficiency for the surveyed farmers is 0.59, indicating that farmers …

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Savings groups reduce vulnerability, but have mixed effects on financial inclusion

Frisancho Robles, Verónica; Valdivia, J. Martín - 2020

This paper evaluates the impact of the introduction of savings groups on poverty, vulnerability, and financial inclusion outcomes in rural Peru. Using a cluster randomized control trial and relying on both survey and administrative records, we investigate the impact of savings groups after more...

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The impact of smart subsidies on agricultural production : innovative evidence from Argentina using survey and remote sensing data

Schling, Maja; Pazos, Nicolás - 2022

This study assesses the impact of the Program for Rural Development and Family Agriculture (PRODAF), a smart subsidies project that benefited the family farming stratum in northeastern Argentina. The evaluation draws on two complementary data sources. The first is a survey of agricultural...

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El impacto de subsidios inteligentes en la producción agrícola : evidencia innovadora de Argentina utilizando datos de encuesta y de teledetección

Schling, Maja; Pazos, Nicolás - 2022

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Participation of farmers in market value chains : a tailored Antràs and Chor positioning indicator

Gattone, Tulia - In: Bio-based and applied economics 13 (2024) 3, pp. 245-264

This study presents a micro-level indicator of farmers' positioning in the market chain, based on the conceptual framework outlined by Antràs and Chor (2013, 2018). The indicator considers the selling location of a farming household and its crop buyers. Using panel data from the World Bank's...

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Fertilizer use intensification and manure use : the case of Tigrai, northern Ethiopia

Araya, Girmay Berhe; Holden, Stein Terje - 2025

There has been an increase in fertilizer use among farmers in the semi-arid Tigray region of Ethiopia during 2006 …-2015. Our household panel data covering nine years show that the average fertilizer adoption rate had increased from about 31 …% of plots in 2006 to almost 67% in 2015. Likewise, fertilizer use intensity increased from 28.6 kg/ha in 2006 to 88.5 kg …

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Insurance and propagation in village networks

Kinnan, Cynthia; Krislert Samphantharak; Townsend, Robert M. - 2020

In village economies, insurance networks are key to smoothing shocks, while production networks can propagate them. The interplay of these networks is crucial. We show that a significant health expenditure shock to one household propagates to other linked households via supply-chain and labor...

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New evidence using a dynamic panel data approach : cereal supply response in smallholder agriculture in Ethiopia

Tenaye, Anbes - In: Economies : open access journal 8 (2020) 3/61, pp. 1-24

crops. Nonprice factors such as education, farm size, fertilizer, land quality, and precipitation also affect supply of …

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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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