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Options for reducing fertilizer prices for smallholder farmers in Tanzania

, 2019
Alethia Cameron, Christian Derlagen, Karl Pauw   +2 more
openalex   +1 more source

Determinants and implications of the growing scale of livestock farms in four fast-growing developing countries: [PDF]

"The rapid growth in consumer demand for livestock offers an opportunity to reduce poverty among smallholder livestock farmers in the developing world. These farmers' opportunity may be threatened, however, by competition from larger-scale farms.
Barros, Geraldo Sant'Ana de Camargo, Catelo, Maria Angeles, Costales, Achilles, de Zen, Sergio, Delgado, Christopher L., Mehta, Rajesh, Naranong, Viroj, Narrod, Clare A., Poapongsakorn, Nipon, Sharma, Vijay Paul, Tiongco, Marites M.   +10 more
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Evaluating large‐scale government investments in fertilizer adoption: The Ethiopian experience

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract We evaluate the impact of a large Government of Ethiopia intervention to raise fertilizer supply by establishing five fertilizer blending facilities supplying fertilizers tailored to local soil nutrient profiles. We rely on the phased geographic rollout of blending facility establishment to identify the causal effect on fertilizer use ...
Thomas Assefa, Ellen McCullough, Guush Berhane   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Correction: Sleep patterns, sociodemographic correlates, and their association with economic preferences among Indian smallholder farmers. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Luo H, Bruns S, Musshoff O, Hermann D.
europepmc   +1 more source

An Analysis of the Factors Influencing Participation by Smallholder Farmers in Indigenous Leafy Vegetables (ILVs) Production: A Case of Mapuzi Village, Eastern Cape Province of South Africa

, 2019
Anele Mayekiso
openalex   +1 more source

Buyers' response to third‐party quality certification: Theory and evidence from Ethiopian wheat traders

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract When quality attributes of a product are not directly observable, third‐party certification (TPC) enables buyers to distinguish between quality levels and reward sellers accordingly. We study the adoption of TPC by traders in smallholder‐based agricultural value chains in low‐income countries, where traders aggregate products from many small ...
Gashaw T. Abate, Tanguy Bernard, Erwin Bulte, Jérémy Do Nascimento Miguel, Elisabeth Sadoulet   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

One Health Disparities and Blastocystis infection among smallholder farmers in northeastern Madagascar. [PDF]

PLOS Glob Public Health
Solis A, Anaeme A, Titcomb G, Janko M, Rabezara JY, Barrett TM, Kauffman K, Pender M, Soarimalala V, Kolinski L, Kramer R, Young H, Nunn CL.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Beyond health protection: Estimating the impact of public health insurance on home‐based livestock raising in rural China

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Livestock often serves as self‐insurance against health shocks for rural households in developing countries. However, little is known about how public health insurance affects livestock production decisions. This paper fills the gap by examining the impact of China's New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NRCMS) on household‐level livestock ...
Ran Li
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment of the Winter Wheat Yield Gap for Smallholder Farmers in the Loess Plateau via Boundary Line Analysis. [PDF]

Plants (Basel)
Han JJ, Xia XP, Liu H, Wang JH, Qi ZW, Wang YC, Lin W, Gao ZQ, Ma ST, Xue JF.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Rural land rental markets in developing countries: Can survey design innovations improve land market participation statistics?

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract A longstanding puzzle in the African land rental market literature is the often‐observed discrepancy between the number of tenants (renters‐in) and the much smaller number of landlords (renters‐out) in survey data. If this discrepancy derives from systematic biases in survey data responses on rental market participation, then the existing body
Gashaw T. Abate, Kibrom A. Abay, Jordan Chamberlin, Samuel Sebsibie   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source