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Land Reforms in Cuba: First Empirical Assessment on Productivity Using Crop‐Level Panel Data
Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Land reforms implemented in Cuba since 2008 have aimed to increase agricultural production by distributing state‐owned idle lands with land‐use rights. The reforms restricted farmers with the rights from cultivating perennial and capital‐intensive crops.
Yoshihiko Hashiguchi +1 more
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October 2006 - Report on Cocoa and Forced Child Labor [PDF]
, 2006 This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.
Athreya, Bama, Campbell, Brian
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Competition and payments to African chiefs on the Gold Coast during the slave trade, 1679‒1704
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract The manuscript records of the Royal African Company show that the Company paid African chiefs for access to trade along the caravan routes on the Gold Coast in the seventeenth century. This paper documents and examines these payments. Using an event study, I establish that after the Glorious Revolution in 1688 when the Company's monopoly in ...
Jose Rowell Corpuz
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COMMODITIES UNDER NEOLIBERALISM: THE CASE OF COCOA [PDF]
The paper examines the case of cocoa as an illustration of the problems faced by primary commodity producers. The impact of market liberalization in cocoa producing countries as well as consuming industrial countries on the cocoa price and cocoa farmers ...
Irfan ul HAQUE
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Analisis Pendapatan USAhatani Kakao di Desa Sidole Kecamatan Ampibabo Kabupaten Parigi Moutong [PDF]
, 2015 Research on the analysis of the income of farming next to the dial plan in the village of cocoa in Sidole subdistrict of Ampbabo regency of Parigi Moutong aim to wished how much big find out the income side grafting for cocoa farmers in the village of ...
Riani, R. (Riani)
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Gender inequality in urban British Africa: Evidence from Anglican marriage registers
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract We examine the colonial origins and evolution of gender inequality in mission schooling and formal labour force participation across six cities in British colonial Africa, using marriage register data for some 30,000 Anglican brides and grooms well‐positioned to benefit from colonial educational and employment opportunities.
Felix Meier zu Selhausen, Jacob Weisdorf
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Rural Capitalists and Development in Colonial Africa: A Comparative Analysis
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores the emergence and role of rural capitalists in colonial Sub‐Saharan Africa by comparing three peasant‐based economies: Bechuanaland, the Gold Coast and Tanganyika. Using social tables, we estimate the population and income shares of better earning agricultural producers and assess their impact on rural inequality and ...
Prince Young Aboagye +2 more
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Analyse de la diversité des systèmes de pratiques en cacaoculture. Cas du Centre Cameroun [PDF]
, 2008 Analysis of the diversity of cocoa cropping systems. Case of the Central Cameroon. Little is known about the cultural practices adopted by cocoa farmers in Central Cameroon.
Batomen F. +4 more
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Diets, fruit and vegetables consumption, and nutritional status in Benin: A scoping review
Maternal &Child Nutrition, EarlyView.This scoping review summarised existing literature on diets, fruit and vegetable intake, and nutritional status in Benin. Key knowledge gaps were on the prevalence of micronutrient deficiencies and differences in fruit and vegetable intake by geographical and socioeconomic characteristics.
Lilia Bliznashka +4 more
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Cocoa variety assessment in on-farm progeny trials in Cameroon [PDF]
, 2012 In Cameroon, IRAD and CIRAD have collaboratively set up and implemented a participatory breeding program since 2006, consisting in the assessment of cocoa varieties under cocoa farm conditions.
Abolo, Dieudonné +10 more
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