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unimproved seed. In turn Malawi’s groundnut exports have also generally dwindled over time. The analysis of Malawian groundnut …
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to determine smallholder farmers’ decision and willingness to adopt jatropha into cropping systems in Malawi. Employing …
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During the last decade, cotton production and area have been declining as a result of depleting soil nutrients and low cotton prices in the cotton zone of Mali. This paper shows that the Malian government’s 2011 policy to increase the farm gate cotton price as a response to world cotton price...
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This is a draft paper, submitted in advance of presentation at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association.
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analysis uses Malawi, a country that earns most of its foreign exchange from tobacco, as a case study of export concentration … and heavy exposure to volatility. The econometric results suggest that the decline in Malawi’s gross domestic product (GDP … yield and improvements in marketing efficiency, however, can help buffer Malawi’s GDP from variability in export revenues. …
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The study investigated the demand for fertilizer among rural farm households in Malawi that have been exposed to high …
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This study investigates the optimal agricultural land use allocation and nitrogen application to arepresentative Japanese farm. The site-specific nature of numerous agri-environmental issues necessitates analysis ata disaggregated level in order to capture the underlying heterogeneity of...
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We theoretically examine a farmer’s coverage demand with area and individual insurance plans as either separate or integrated options. The individual and area losses are assumed to be imperfectly and positively correlated. With actuarially fair rates, the farmer will fully insure with the...
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This report sets out some broad ideas about how poverty evaluation could be conducted for ACIAR research projects. As with good benefit–cost analysis, there are good practices that need to be observed when undertaking poverty analysis. While poverty is a broad concept, and can be addressed...
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This paper has examined Pareto efficiency of household resources allocation and the appropriateness to use gender-specific models rather than unitary model while investigating economic performance ofmen and women managers of separate plots within horticultural households in Senegal, West...
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