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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract Nucleus outgrower schemes are contractual arrangements where well‐resourced large‐scale farmers (nucleus farmers) are empowered by development support agencies to take charge of smallholder farmers, by providing them with market access and the necessary training on agronomic practices and farm inputs for production.
Dominic Tasila Konja, Awudu Abdulai
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Does Contract Farming Improve Diet Quality? The Case of Senegalese Smallholders
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The institution of contract farming has gained prominence in most developing countries owing to its numerous benefits. While several studies have already highlighted the welfare benefits of contract farming, very few have investigated the effects on diet quality, despite poor quality diets being a serious challenge in most parts of the ...
Francis E. Ndip, Takeshi Sakurai
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Marital Preparedness, Marital Satisfaction and Economic Status
Journal of Human Ecology, 2004 Traditionally Indian women were prepared for accepting marital roles like adapting according to in-laws value system taking up voluntarily responsibility at in-laws home to consider husband as god and accept his verdict as final to accept restrictions on her own behaviour. In todays dynamic world womens role expectations from society and role relations
Amiteshwar Ratra, Praveen Kaur
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Marital Histories and Economic Well-Being [PDF]
Compared to unmarried individuals married individuals report greater average wealth. A restricted focus on current marital status risks misrepresenting the effects of marriage on wealth, as an increasing proportion of older adults have been divorced and ...
Amy Rauer +2 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers are reverting to traditional production methods due to the high opportunity costs and unintended consequences of new technologies. This study focuses on row planting technology, which is labor‐intensive and slow without mechanized operations.
Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah +4 more
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Journal of Epidemiology, 2018 Background: Socioeconomic inequalities in oral health have been reported in developed countries, but the influence of marital status has rarely been considered.
Keiko Murakami +2 more
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Rising marital disruption in Italy and its correlates [PDF]
Most of our knowledge on divorce pertains to the USA and northern Europe, while demographic studies from southern Europe are relatively scarce. Our study looks at this knowledge gap through an analysis of the correlates of marital instability in Italy ...
Daniele Vignoli, Irene Ferro
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Use of antenatal clinic surveillance to assess the effect of sexual behavior on HIV prevalence in young women in Karonga district, Malawi. [PDF]
, 2008 BACKGROUND: Antenatal clinic (ANC) surveillance is the primary source of HIV prevalence estimates in low-resource settings. In younger women, prevalence approximates incidence.
Crampin, Amelia Catharine +8 more
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Who Are the Consumers of European Farmers' Markets? A Cross‐Country Analysis
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT With substantial growth in the number of farmers' markets (FMs) in developed countries, the number of consumers visiting FMs is also increasing. This study comparatively assesses the consumers of FMs in three European countries where FMs traditionally play a distinctive role in food supply chains.
Áron Török +6 more
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Family Job Search, Wage Bargainings, and Optimal Unemployment Insurance [PDF]
The paper develops an equilibrium search and matching model where two-person families as well as singles participate in the labor market. We show that equilibrium entails wage dispersion among equally productive risk-averse workers.
Bertil Holmlund, Susanne Ek
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