Resultados de búsqueda - "Nigeria"

Examining the gender digital divide: A case study from rural Nigeria por Sufian, Farha D., Nico, Gianluigi, Azzarri, Carlo

“…Rural Nigeria, with its diverse cultural and socio economic landscapes, presents unique challenges when it comes to digital inclusion. …”
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Private sector promotion of climate-smart technologies: Experimental evidence from Nigeria por Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis Saweda, Dillon, Andrew, Bloem, Jeffrey R., Adjognon, Guigonan Serge

“…We test strategies for promoting the adoption of climate-smart agricultural inputs in Nigeria with a private sector firm. We disentangle the effects of price discount promotions (25 percent discounts) relative to the firm’s standard “business as usual” marketing package. …”
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Land tenure security and preferences to dispute resolution pathways among landholders in Nigeria por Edeh, Hyacinth O., Mavrotas, George, Balana, Bedru

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Agricultural credit constraints in smallholder farming in developing countries: Evidence from Nigeria por Balana, Bedru, Oyeyemi, Motunrayo Ayowumi

“…The agricultural sector in developing countries like Nigeria is characterized by low productivity, driven partly by low use of modern agricultural technologies. …”
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Measuring women's empowerment: Gender and time-use agency in Benin, Malawi and Nigeria por Eissler, Sarah, Heckert, Jessica, Myers, Emily, Seymour, Greg, Sinharoy, Sheela, Yount, Kathryn

“…It draws on 92 semi-structured interviews from three qualitative studies in Benin, Malawi and Nigeria to explore and compare the salience of time-use agency as a component of empowerment. …”
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Income variability, evolving diets, and elasticity estimation of demand for processed foods in Nigeria por de Brauw, Alan, Herskowitz, Sylvan

“…We present evidence on evolving dietary patterns in Nigeria using six rounds of household consumption data from the Nigerian General Household Survey panel between 2011 and 2016. …”
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Credit constraints and adoption of agricultural technologies in developing countries? Evidence from Nigeria por Balana, Bedru, Oyeyemi, Motunrayo

“…The agricultural sector in Nigeria is characterized by low productivity, driven partly by low use of modern technologies. …”
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National extension policy and state level implementation: The case of Niger State in Nigeria por Babu, Suresh Chandra, Ogunniyi, Adebayo, Balana, Bedru, Andam, Kwaw S.

“…The aim of Nigeria’s extension reform and transformation agenda through its new national extension policy (NEP) is to put in place a legislated, pluralistic, farmer-responsive, and market-oriented extension system. …”
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Public expenditures on agriculture at subnational-levels and household-level agricultural outcomes in Nigeria por Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Smart, Jenny, Edeh, Hyacinth O., Oyeyemi, Motunrayo, Balana, Bedru, Andam, Kwaw S.

“…Growing agriculture remains important for countries like Nigeria where, despite economic transformation at sectoral levels, a significant share of employment still originates from the agricultural sector. …”
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Impacts of COVID-19 on food security: Panel data evidence from Nigeria por Amare, Mulubrhan, Abay, Kibrom A., Tiberti, Luca, Chamberlin, Jordan

“…This paper combines pre-pandemic face-to-face survey data with follow up phone surveys collected in April-May 2020 to quantify the overall and differential impacts of COVID-19 on household food security, labor market participation and local food prices in Nigeria. We exploit spatial variation in exposure to COVID-19 related infections and lockdown measures along with temporal differences in our outcomes of interest using a difference-in-difference approach. …”
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Do credit constraints affect agricultural technology adoption? Evidence from Nigeria por Balana, Bedru, Oyeyemi, Motunrayo, Benson, Todd

“…The agricultural sector in Nigeria is characterized by low productivity that is driven in part by low use of modern agricultural technologies. …”
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Rural Economy Knowledge Support System (REKSS) - Nigeria Institutional and Individual Dataset por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…This survey was conducted to identify the current capacity within Nigeria for providing evidence for policymaking and for creating this capacity for future generations. …”
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Impact evaluation of the use of PBR cowpea in Nigeria: Baseline process evaluation report por Mockshell, Jonathan, Asante-Addo, Collins, Nwagboso, Chibuzo, Ritter, Thea, Amare, Mulubrhan, Andam, Kwaw S.

“…This process evaluation (PE) is part of a five-year (2021–2026) impact evaluation (IE) of the use of a new pod-borer-resistant (PBR) cowpea variety in Nigeria, a project led by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). …”
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Mechanization in Nigeria: What needs to be done to stimulate demand and support market growth? por Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Kennedy, Adam

“…Mechanization increases the power applied to agricultural operations and is one tool among many for improving farm productivity and increasing incomes for Nigeria’s farmers and processors. It alone cannot drive the transformation of agriculture (Pingali 2007). …”
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Nigeria CAADP bienniel review brief: Africa agriculture scorecard performance and lessons por Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System

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Polygynous family structure and child undernutrition in Africa: Empirical evidence from Nigeria por Amare, Mulubrhan, Mahrt, Kristi, Mavrotas, George, Arndt, Channing

“…We apply an instrumental variable approach based on the occurrence of same sex siblings in a woman’s first two births to generate exogenous variation in polygyny. Using 2008 and 2013 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey data, we find that same sex siblings predict polygyny. …”
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Analysis of the confluence between Nigeria’s development strategies and its agricultural public expenditures por Mogues, Tewodaj, Olofinbiyi, Tolulope

“…This paper seeks to understand the features of public spending in the agricultural sector within the context of Nigeria’s federal structure and decentralized system. …”
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The roles of agroclimatic similarity and returns on scale in the demand for mechanization: Insights from Nigeria por Takeshima, Hiroyuki

“…Despite economic transformations and urbanization, declining shares of the workforce employed in the agricultural sector, and gradual growth of agricultural mechanization, production costs in the agricultural sector and food prices remain high in Nigeria relative to those in some of the other developing countries. …”
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Assessing the state of the rice milling sector in Nigeria: The role of policy for growth and modernization por Johnson, Michael E., Masias, Ian

“…We use an industry profit maximization model to conduct an ex-post impact assessment on the extent the rice milling sector in Nigeria has grown and improved its performance in producing high quality premium rice following major public sector interventions made under the Agricultural Transformation Agenda. …”
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Federal government support for agriculture in Nigeria: Analysis with a public expenditure lens por Nwoko, Chinedum, Ikejiofor, Amarachi Grace, Nnaji, Nchedo Theresa, Mogues, Tewodaj

“…This paper provides a broad view of public sector support to agriculture in Nigeria, through the lens of the allocation of public expenditures by the federal government in support of the sector. …”
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