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Traditional top-down methods for resource management ask first what future conditions will be, then identify the best action(s) to take in response to that prediction. Even when acknowledging uncertainty about the future, standard approaches (a) characterize uncertainties probabilistically, then...
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-specific sensing, sampling, and managing allow farmers to treat a field as a heterogeneous entity. Through targeted use of inputs …
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Although forests have diminished globally over the past 400 years, forest cover has increased in some areas, including India in the last two decades. Aggregate time-series evidence on forest growth rates and income growth across countries and within India and a newly-assembled data set that...
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This special issue contributes to the literature on gender differences in sub‐Saharan African agriculture primarily by … under the Living Standards Measurement Study‐Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS‐ISA) initiative. The LSMS‐ISA data are … gender differences in sub‐Saharan African agriculture. While there does seem to be persistent evidence of gender gaps, the …
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smallholder‐targeted programme. The gap exists because agricultural programmes tend to benefit better‐off farmers, while social …
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raising productivity, particularly in agriculture where market failures are most manifest. The seven papers in this special … transfers on agriculture, with migration as facilitating a transition away from agriculture or to models of less labour … intensive agriculture …
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suggest that gender differences in agricultural productivity are a result of female farmers having limited access to resources … in the program improves agricultural productivity for both male and female farmers but it does not provide … disproportionate help to female famers to overcome gender disparities in agricultural productivity. This suggests that female farmers …
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This special issue contributes to the literature on gender differences in sub‐Saharan African agriculture primarily by … under the Living Standards Measurement Study‐Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS‐ISA) initiative. The LSMS‐ISA data are … gender differences in sub‐Saharan African agriculture. While there does seem to be persistent evidence of gender gaps, the …
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Organic agriculture is often perceived as more sustainable than conventional farming. We review the literature on this …, observed yield gaps might further increase if a larger number of farmers would switch to organic practices. Widespread … upscaling of organic agriculture would cause additional loss of natural habitats and also entail output price increases, making …
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Marketing tools, in addition to their role in persuasion and serving as a bridge between production and consumers, reduce prepurchase risks. This role has received less attention in the literature. This review highlights marketing's role in reducing consumers’ purchasing risk. We present our...
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