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Sensitivity of Cropping Patterns in Africa to Transient Climate Change

Lotsch, Alexander - 2012

The detailed analysis of current cropping areas in Africa presented here reveals significant climate sensitivities of cropland density and distribution across a variety of agro-ecosystems. Based on empirical climate-cropland relationships, cropland density responds positively to increases in...

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Export Commodity Production and Broad-Based Rural Development : Coffee and Cocoa in the Dominican Republic

Siegel, Paul B.; Alwang, Jeffrey R. - 2013

An estimated 80,000-100,000 Dominican farmers produce coffee and cocoa, nearly 40 percent of all agricultural producers … activities. The majority of coffee and cocoa producers are small-scale and most are located in environmentally sensitive … exist in Dominican Republic for production of high-quality coffee and cocoa. To be competitive and sustainable, some changes …

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Differential Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change in African Cropland by Agro-Ecological Zones

Seo, Niggol; Mendelsohn, Robert O.; Kurukulasuriya, Pradeep - 2012

This paper quantifies how African farmers have adapted their crop and irrigation decisions to their farm's current agro-ecological zone. The results indicate that farmers carefully consider the climate and other conditions of their farm when making these choices. These results are then used to...

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Roads and Rural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Berg, Claudia; Blankespoor, Brian; Selod, Harris - 2016

This paper assesses the relation between access to markets and cultivated land in Sub-Saharan Africa. Making use of a geo-referenced panel over three decades (1970-2005) during which the road network was significantly improved, the analysis finds a modest but significant positive association...

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Costs and Benefits of Land Fragmentation : Evidence from Rwanda

Ali, Daniel Ayalew; Deininger, Klaus W.; Ronchi, Loraine - 2015

This paper disentangles different aspects of land fragmentation and its impact on the efficiency of resource use. The paper uses information on the incidence of crop shocks to assess whether fragmentation provides benefits in reducing risk and parcel coordinates and terrain-adjusted travel times...

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Soil Fertility, Fertilizer, and the Maize Green Revolution in East Africa

Matsumoto, Tomoya; Yamano, Takashi - 2009

This paper investigates the reasons for the low application of external fertilizers on farms in Kenya and Uganda. The analysis uses a large panel of household data with rich soil fertility data at the plot level. The authors control for maize seed selection and household effects by using a...

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Does Rising Landlessness Signal Success or Failure for Vietnam???s Agrarian Transition?

Van de Walle, Dominique; Ravallion, Martin - 2012

In the wake of reforms to establish a free market in land-use rights, Vietnam is experiencing a pronounced rise in rural landlessness. To some observers this is a harmless by-product of a more efficient economy, while to others it signals the return of the pre-socialist class-structure, with the...

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Cultivate or Rent Out? Land Security in Rural Thailand

Gin??, Xavier - 2012

In the 1980s the Thai government tried to legalize squatters by issuing special titles that restricted the sale and rental of the land. Using data from 2,874 farming households collected in 1997, the author finds that in places where these government titles where issued, leased plots are more...

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A Ricardian Analysis of the Distribution of Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture across Agro-Ecological Zones in Africa

Seo, S. Niggol; Mendelsohn, Robert O.; Dinar, Ariel - 2012

This paper examines the distribution of climate change impacts across the 16 agro-ecological zones in Africa using data from the Food and Agriculture Organization combined with economic survey data from a Global Environment Facility/World Bank project. Net revenue per hectare of cropland is...

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Property Rights in a Very Poor Country : Tenure Insecurity and Investment in Ethiopia

Ali, Daniel Ayalew; Dercon, Stefan; Gautam, Madhur - 2012

This paper provides evidence from one of the poorest countries of the world that the property rights matter for efficiency, investment, and growth. With all land state-owned, the threat of land redistribution never appears far off the agenda. Land rental and leasing have been made legal, but...

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