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community level. -- household productivity ; ecological sanitation ; UDDT ; Mali ; fertilizer ; matching …In many parts of the world, soils poor in nutrients are farmed with little addition of fertilizer, further depleting … sanitation and at recycling nutrients as fertilizer. This human fertilizer may act as a substitute for artificial fertilizers …
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Intensified use of agricultural inputs, particularly fertilizer, is a possible route to improved agricultural …
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We use a field experiment in Bangladesh to test if two types of variety-specific fertilizer recommendations …---government provided, community-level recommendations and plot-specific recommendations based on individual soil tests---affect fertilizer … use, yield, and profits. Treatment farmers do not change their fertilizer application behavior in response to either …
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finds that fertilizer consumption increased by 21% in response to the intervention. …
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quasiexperimental approach (Propensity Score Matching), this study estimates the impact of receiving an agricultural input donation on …
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finds that fertilizer consumption increased by 21% in response to the intervention. …
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This paper aims to address the impact on deforestation of the use of forest products as safety nets by poor agricultural households. Two safety-net uses may be implemented: the diversification strategy and the coping strategy. With both strategies, crop risk reduction, lower risk aversion and...
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, availability and food use). The analysis uses a double difference estimation combined with a propensity score matching to capture …
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Shifting cultivation is the primary means of livelihood for subsistence farmers in the Congo Basin of central Africa. This agroforestry system, which depends on long periods of forest-fallow to maintain soil fertility as well as for the provision of non-wood forest products, is under pressure as...
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Shifting cultivation is the primary means of livelihood for subsistence farmers throughout the humid forests of the tropics. They rely on the forest landscape as a source of fertile land to sustain their livelihood. Sustainable use of the resource base requires long periods of fallow and the...
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