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Agricultural decisions after relaxing credit and risk constraints

Karlan, Dean; Osei-Akoto, Isaac; Osei, Robert Darko; … - 2012

leads to significantly larger agricultural investment and riskier production choices in agriculture. The salient constraint …The investment decisions of small-scale farmers in developing countries are conditioned by their financial environment …. Binding credit market constraints and incomplete insurance can reduce investment in activities with high expected profits. We …

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Typhoon and agricultural production portfolio: Empirical evidence for a developing economy

2021

In this paper, we investigate whether and how households adjust their agricultural practices such as cultivation and livestock to adapt to a severe typhoon.We, therefore, make use of a natural experiment coming from the strong typhoon Ketsana in 2009. We apply the difference-in-differences...

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Rainfall forecasts, weather and wages over the agricultural production cycle

Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Udry, Christopher - 2014

We look at the effects of rainfall forecasts and realized rainfall on equilibrium agricultural wages over the course of the agricultural production cycle. We show theoretically that a forecast of good weather can lower wages in the planting stage, by lowering ex ante out-migration, and can...

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The Climate Challenge for Agriculture and the Value of Climate Services: Application to Coffee-Farming in Peru

Lechthaler, Filippo; Vinogradova, Alexandra - 2016

The use of climate information in economic activities, typically provided by climate services, may serve as a possible adaptation strategy to changing climate conditions. The present paper analyzes the value of climate services aimed at improving agricultural productivity through a reduction in...

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Farm Productivity and Market Structure. Evidence From Cotton Reforms in Zambia

Brambilla, Irene; Porto, Guido G. - 2005

This paper investigates the impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm productivity, a key element for poverty alleviation, in rural Zambia. The reforms comprised the elimination of the Zambian cotton marketing board that was in place since 1977. Following liberalization, the sector adopted an...

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Land Access, Tenure and Investment in Post-War Northern Mozambique

Brück, Tilman - 2003

The relationship between land investment and tenure security is usually tested in land scarce but peaceful areas. This … article examines instead the effects of land abundance and war for investment and tenure security. The paper demonstrates that … war enhances land abundance. This implies that farm size for the analysis of land investment and tenure security. The …

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Do Cows Have Negative Returns? The Evidence Revisited

Gehrke, Esther; Grimm, Michael - 2014

as an instrument for investment in cattle. We find average returns in the order of -2% at the mean, but they vary across …

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Posh Spice or Scary Spice? Resource Booms, Wealth, and Human Capital across Ages

Boone, Christopher; Kaila, Heidi; Sahn, David E. - 2024

We examine the impact of a six-fold increase in the global vanilla price on smallholder vanilla-farming households in Madagascar. The price increase leads to sizable gains in household assets and significant improvements in adult psychological well-being, cognitive performance, and optimism...

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Agricultural input subsidies and productivity: The case of Paraguayan farmers

Lopez, Cesar Augusto; Salazar, Lina; de Salvo, Carmine Paolo - 2017

It is a well-known fact that a great majority of countries implement agricultural input subsidies as a tool to boost agricultural productivity and output. However, even though this practice is widely spread and represents a large part of the agricultural budget, little emphasis has been placed...

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Land measurement bias: Comparisons from global positioning system, self-reports, and satellite data

Dillon, Andrew; Rao, Lakshman Nagraj - 2018

Agricultural statistics derived from remote sensing data have been used primarily to compare land use information and changes over time. Nonclassical measurement error from farmer self-reports has been well documented in the survey design literature primarily in comparison to plots measured...

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