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Agricultural Education, Science and Modern Technology's Role in Solving the Problems of Global Food Resources in the 21st Century
McCalla, Alex F. - 1998
The growth of agriculture output over the past 200 years has been phenomenal. When Malthus wrote in 1798, he perceived limits on agricultural production as serious and imminent. Since then world population has increased by six-fold and global agricultural production has more than kept pace....
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Impact of the West African Ebola epidemic on agricultural production and rural welfare : evidence from Liberia
De La Fuente, Alejandro; Jacoby, Hanan; Lawin, … - 2019
societies remain poorly understood. To study these mechanisms in the context of rural Liberia, this paper links a geographically …
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Improving the measurement of rural women's employment : global momentum and survey research priorities
Koolwa, Gayatri - 2019
Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda Living Standards and Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture, as well as …
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Poverty, inequality, and agriculture in the EU
Azevedo, João Pedro; Brink, Rogerius Johannes Eugenius … - 2018
Boosting convergence and shared prosperity in the European Union achieved renewed urgency after the global financial crisis of 2008. This paper assesses the role of agriculture and the Common Agricultural Program in achieving this. The paper sheds light on the relationship between poverty and...
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Measuring farm labor : survey experimental evidence from Ghana
Gaddis, Isis; Oseni, Gbemisola; Palacios-Lopez, Amparo; … - 2019
This study examines recall bias in farm labor by conducting a randomized survey experiment in Ghana. Hours of farm … the season. The study finds that the recall method overestimates farm labor per person per plot by about 10 percent …-operated farms. Consistent with the notion that recall bias is linked to the cognitive burden of reporting on past events, the study …
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Gender differences in agricultural productivity in Côte d'Ivoire : changes in determinants and distributional composition over the past decade
Donald, Aletheia; Lawin, Gabriel; Rouanet, Léa - 2020
This paper analyzes changes in agricultural productivity gender gaps in Cote d'Ivoire between 2008 and 2016 using decomposition methods. The analysis finds that the unconditional gender gap between male- and female-headed households has decreased by 14 percent over the past decade. The...
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Recall length and measurement error in agricultural surveys
Wollburg, Philip; Tiberti, Marco; Zezza, Alberto - 2020
. Using data from the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture in Malawi and Tanzania …
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Salt of the earth : quantifying the impact of water salinity on global agricultural productivity
Russ, Jason; Zaveri, Esha D.; Damania, Richard; … - 2020
, including increased water extraction, poor irrigation management, and sea-level rise. To date no study has attempted to quantify …
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The nutrition sensitivity of food and agriculture in South Asia
Dizon, Felipe; Josephson, Anna; Raju, Dhushyanth - 2019
Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia, a region characterized by a high level of malnutrition. The review finds that the level and stability of food prices play a critical part in food consumption, with rising...
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Education spillovers in farm productivity : revisiting the evidence
Gille, Véronique - 2019
This paper exploits the social organization of India to revisit the question of education spillovers in farm productivity. The fact that social interactions mainly occur within castes in rural India provides tools to show that the observed correlation between farm productivity and neighbors'...
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