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Genetically modified crops in Africa: Economic and policy lessons from countries south of the Sahara
Falck-Zepeda, Jose Benjamin (contributor);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
A variable climate, political instability, and other constraints have limited agricultural development in African countries south of the Sahara. Genetically modified (GM) crops are one tool for enhancing agricultural productivity and food security despite such constraints. Genetically Modified...
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Variety demand within the framework of an agricultural household model with attributes: the case of bananas in Uganda
Edmeades, Svetlana; Smale, Melinda; Renkow, Mitch; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2004
Ugandan smallholder farmers produce the nation's major food crop using numerous banana varieties with distinctive …
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A hedonic approach to estimating the supply of variety attributes of a subsistence crop:
Edmeades, Svetlana - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
variety attributes of a subsistence crop in a developing country. The model is applied to bananas in Uganda, making use of … disaggregated data on variety-specific farm-gate banana bunch prices and attributes. The hedonic analysis is applied at the farm …-gate, the first link in the market chain, while accounting for the semi-subsistence nature of banana producing households …
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Agricultural production and children’s diets: Evidence from rural Ethiopia:
Hirvonen, Kalle; Hoddinott, John F. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
We study the relationship between pre-school children’s food consumption and household agricultural production. Using a large household survey from rural Ethiopia, we find that increasing household production diversity leads to considerable improvements in children’s diet...
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Effects of Off-Farm Work on Farm Household Production Choices
Wang, Chenggang; Pan, Suwen; Lijian, Qin - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
Using a unique panel of rice-producing Chinese households, this paper tests off-farm employment’s effects on agricultural production. We find the sizable rural out-migration in the past two decades has had negligible effects on China’s rice production. This cannot be explained by farm labor...
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Policy impacts under alternative land market regimes in rural China
Kleinwechter, Ulrich; Grethe, Harald - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
In this paper we apply a simulation model of a village economy in Guizhou province, China, to assess impacts of trade reform at the household and the village level under alternative land market regimes. Putting special emphasis on the modeling of household migration a trade reform scenario is...
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Modeling the Welfare Impacts of Agricultural Policies in Developing Countries
Jonasson, Erik; Filipski, Mateusz; Brooks, Jonathan; … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
This paper presents a new model which incorporates features of developing country agriculture that may be critical in shaping the welfare outcomes of alternative agricultural policies. The model features heterogeneous households linked through markets in a rural economy-wide structure, with...
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A Unified Approach to the Estimation of Demand for Improved Seed in Developing Agriculture
Langyintuo, Augustine S.; Hamazakaza, Petan; Nawale, Edah; … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006
This paper proposes a new approach for estimating the demand for seed within a developing country context where only improved seeds are sold but adoption rates for improved varieties low. A farmer views an improved seed firstly as a derived input embodying production attributes and secondly, as...
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Demand for seasonal wage labour in agriculture: what does family farming hide?
Darpeix, Aurelie; Bignebat, Celine; Perrier-Cornet, Philippe - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
Seasonal wage labour was rarely distinguished from the permanent one in farm-household models although it has sharply increased in developed countries. Therefore, we propose to endogenize the demand for this peculiar labour type and highlight the trade-offs for the various labour combinations on...
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An ex ante analysis of the impact and cost-effectiveness of biofortified high-provitamin A and high-iron banana in Uganda:
Fiedler, John L.; Kilkuwe, Enoch M.; Birol, Ekin - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
cooking banana (nakinyika) and sweet banana (sukalindizi). Informed by the empirical findings, we developed geographically …€™ reported quantities of each type of banana currently consumed, we estimated the number of people consuming each banana and the …
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