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Look who's talking: the impacts of the intrahousehold allocation of mobile phones on agricultural prices

Lee, Kyeong Ho; Bellemare, Marc F. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Using data from the Philippines, we study the impact of mobile phones on the prices agricultural producers receive for their cash crop. We first look at the impact on price of mobile phone ownership at the household level. Because this masks a considerable amount of heterogeneity, we then look...

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Production Efficiency and Agricultural Technologies in the Ethiopian Agriculture

Mariam, Yohannes; Coffin, Garth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993

Stochastic frontier production function analysis was performed to examine relative crop and milk production efficiency among peasants in Ada and Selale districts of the Central highlands of Ethiopia. The results indicate that Ada farmers exhibit relatively higher efficiency scores in cereal...

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Economic efficiency in protected vegetable cultivation

Necula, Diana Maria - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

proposed vegetable crops . The investment itself involves setting up a vegetable farm in protected areas, whose capacity will …, drill, plug, etc. In the analysis performed we estimated two hypothetical situations: where basic investment expenditures … (106,578 lei) are covered by the loan to the bank and the situation in which the investment is financed 40% by way of grant …

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The Contribution of Non-Physical Resources and Strategic Household Decision-making to Environmental and Policy Risks

Mariam, Yohannes; Galaty, John; Coffin, Garth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993

Physical resources such as land, labour and livestock, and nonphysical resources such as indigenous knowledge and institutions of producers in the grain surplus and deficit regions of the Central Highlands of Ethiopia are examined under situation of environmental and policy risks. Frequency...

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As You Sow, So Shall You Reap: The Welfare Impacts of Contract Farming

Bellemare, Marc F. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

What is the impact of participation in agricultural value chains on the welfare of smallholders? Contract farming, wherein a processing firm delegates its production of agricultural commodities to growers, is often viewed as a means of increasing smallholder welfare in developing countries....

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As You Sow, So Shall You Reap: The Welfare Impacts of Contract Farming

Bellemare, Marc F. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

What is the impact of participation in commodity chains on producer welfare? Contract farming – wherein a processing firm delegates its production of agricultural commodities to growers – is often viewed as a means of increasing grower welfare in developing countries. Because the nonrandom...

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Agricultural Extension and Imperfect Supervision in Contract Farming: Evidence from Madagascar

Bellemare, Marc F. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This article tests whether agricultural extension and imperfect supervision -- conflated here into the number of visits by a technical assistant -- increase productivity in a sample of contract farming arrangements between a processing �rm and small agricultural producers in Madagascar....

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Smallholder Participation in Agricultural Value Chains: Comparative Evidence from Three Continents

Barrett, Christopher B.; Bachke, Maren E.; Bellemare, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Supermarkets, specialized wholesalers, and processors and agro-exporters’ agricultural value chains have begun to transform the marketing channels into which smallholder farmers sell produce in low-income economies. We develop a conceptual framework through which to study contracting between...

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Agricultural productivity and mortality: evidence from Kagera, Tanzania

Ikegami, Munenobu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

We ask whether prime-age adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS decreases the endowment of knowledge for agricultural production in Kagera, Tanzania, reducing total factor productivity. We also quantify how much this negative effect contributes to the decrease in long-term household agricultural income...

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Whose incentives? The evolution of inheritance practices, intergenerational conflict, and women’s control over land in rural Kenya

Linkow, Benjamin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Land related investment decisions are shaped by both the formal and informal institutions governing land tenure and … practice allows parents to shift the investment incentives facing heirs in their favor. This analytical framework is also used …

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