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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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Optimal rainfall insurance contracts for maize producers in Ghana’s Northern Region [PDF]
The risk of food insecurity due to climate change in developing countries has encouraged development partners to seek new approaches to improve the resilience of subsistence agriculture to covariate shocks.
Muamba, Francis M., Ulimwengu, John M.
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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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Evaluation of Satellite-Based Rainfall Estimates in the Lower Mekong River Basin (Southeast Asia) [PDF]
Satellite-based precipitation is an essential tool for regional water resource applications that requires frequent observations of meteorological forcing, particularly in areas that have sparse rain gauge networks.
Bolten, John +3 more
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ON THE ESTIMATION OF PROBABLE RAINFALL-INTENSITY-FORMULA BY SPECIFIC COEFFICIENT METHODS
Transactions of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers, 1961 Succeeding to the author's previous report on the estimation method of the probable rainfall-intensity-formula based on the Logarithmic Normal distributions, another estimation method to which the Extreme Limiting Theory is applied is proposed in the first part of this paper.
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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan +3 more
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Zhongguo dizhi zaihai yu fangzhi xuebaoGeosynthetic-reinforced soil (GRS) abutments have demonstrated significant potential in road and transportation engineering due to their cost-effectiveness, ease of construction, and eco-friendly characteristics.
Qiangqiang HUANG, Feifan REN
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Distribution of Accuracy of TRMM Daily Rainfall in Makassar Strait
Forum Geografi, 2018 This research aims to evaluate rainfall estimates of satellite products in regions that have high variations of rainfall pattern. The surrounding area of Makassar Strait have chosen because of its distinctive rainfall pattern between the eastern and ...
G Giarno +3 more
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Bayesian functional linear regression with sparse step functions
, 2016 The functional linear regression model is a common tool to determine the relationship between a scalar outcome and a functional predictor seen as a function of time. This paper focuses on the Bayesian estimation of the support of the coefficient function.
Abraham, Christophe +3 more
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Statistical analysis of the equivalent design rainfall [PDF]
, 2005 Statistical analyses of rainfall data are used for the design of sewerage systems and pump-stations, for the evaluation of the duration and the frequency of overflow in runoff detention facilities, for the determination of the critical influence on a ...
Bogataj, Marija +2 more
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