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Global agricultural value chains and food prices

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract We study the relationship between the extent of participation in global agricultural value chains (GAVCs) and food prices at the country level. Using longitudinal data on a sample of 138 countries for the period 2000–2015 and a shift‐share instrumental variable design, we study how the extent of a country's participation in GAVCs in a given ...
Bernhard Dalheimer, Marc F. Bellemare
wiley   +1 more source

Educational Intervention Effects on Pesticide-Related Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices, Exposure, and Health Among Ugandan Smallholder Farmers: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Public Health
Ssekkadde P   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Information flow and the adoption of soil‐improving and water conservation measures, and household welfare: Insights from a randomized controlled trial in Uganda

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Extension services are designed to facilitate the flow of information from researchers to farmers. However, information failures continue to impede the diffusion of soil‐improving and water conservation technologies in Sub‐Saharan African countries. We use a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to examine the impact of an extension‐based campaign
Esther Gloria Mbabazi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A scalable approach to improve CSA targeting practices among smallholder farmers. [PDF]

open access: yesHeliyon, 2023
Muriithi C   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Progress and Poverty: Walter Rodney's Legacy

open access: yesThe American Journal of Economics and Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The conventional view of human progress states that the more humanity makes progress, the less poverty is entrenched. But, global development is currently characterized by a persistent combination of economic progress and growing relative poverty. This endemic inequality has puzzled economists for years.
Franklin Obeng‐Odoom
wiley   +1 more source

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