effects of an extension program designed for women smallholder farmers in Uganda. We find that program phaseout does not …

farming practices among women smallholders in Uganda. We find that while supply of improved seeds through local, BRAC trained …

procuring inputs and marketing produce, where smallholders face disproportionately high transaction costs. Producer … organizations could help to lessen transaction costs, however, only few farmers in Uganda sell through them. We introduce two …

This paper examines the impact of fertilizer agrichemicals in water on infant and child health using data on water …

We examine the fertilizer retail-import price gap in 14 African countries between 2002 and 2013. This price …

interest was being paid. It also increased agricultural investment in fertilizer, although there was no change in investment in … other complementary inputs that were not directly targeted by the intervention, unlike fertilizer.These results suggest that … fertilizer salience in the remunerated savings treatment may have been important to focus farmers' (limited) attention on saving …

smallholders but am unable to do so for non-smallholders. This leads to important differences in production behavior: smallholders … reallocate labor across activities less in response to intra-seasonal crop price changes than do non-smallholders. A … counterfactual exercise indicates smallholders could increase revenue by almost nine percent if they were to reallocate labor …

The demographic transition the move from a high fertility/high mortality regime into a low fertility/low mortality … and increasing speed of transitions. It also produces a strong correlation between the speeds of fertility transition and …