Resultados de búsqueda - "empirical evidence"

Market access, price policy and diversification in Indian agriculture por Negi, Digvijay S., Birthal, Pratap Singh, Roy, Devesh, Hazrana, Jaweriah

“…This paper provides empirical evidence of a causal relationship between the access to markets and the crop partial policies on the pattern of specialization or diversification in Indian agriculture. …”
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Integrating environmental considerations into the agricultural policy process: Evidence from Nigeria por Babu, Suresh Chandra, Mavrotas, George, Prasai, Nilam

“…Using data collected in Nigeria, we develop empirical evidence on such factors so that the sectoral policy process can be improved for better environmental outcomes. …”
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Gender differences in access to extension services and agricultural productivity por Ragasa, Catherine, Berhane, Guush, Tadesse, Fanaye, Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum

“…This paper contributes new empirical evidence and nuanced analysis on the gender difference in access to extension services and how this translates to observed differences in technology adoption and agricultural productivity. …”
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Gendered impacts of the 2007-08 food price crisis: Evidence using panel data from rural Ethiopia por Kumar, Neha, Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…This paper provides empirical evidence on the gendered impact of the 2007-08 food price crisis using panel data on 1,400 households from rural Ethiopia that were initially surveyed before the onset of the crisis, in 1994-95, 1997, and 2004, and after food prices spiked, in 2009. …”
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Social capital and gender in South Africa, 1993-98 por Maluccio, John A., Haddad, Lawrence J., May, Julian

“…This research adds a gender dimension to the debate providing empirical evidence on the role of social capital. The goal of the research is to determine whether men and women have social capital to the same degree and whether men’s and women’s social capital, proxied by membership in formal and informal groups, had differential effects on household welfare in South Africa in the 1990s.…”
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Rethinking food aid to fight AIDS por Kadiyala, Suneetha, Gillespie, Stuart

“…Though there is little empirical evidence regarding the effectiveness of food aid in responding to HIV/AIDS, the authors argue that this should not constrain action. …”
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Adoption of agronomic practices and their impact on crop yield and income: an analysis for black gram and green gram in India por Varma, P., Manda, J.

“…However, there is limited empirical evidence on the determinants of the adoption of these practices and their impact on yield and income. …”
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Evaluating the cost of poverty alleviation transfer programs: an illustration based on PROGRESA in Mexico por Coady, David, Perez, Raul, Vera-Ilamas, Hadid

“…But very little empirical evidence exists on program costs. For example, a recent extensive international review of targeted poverty alleviation programs in developing countries could find data on costs for only 32 out of the 111 programs reviewed. …”
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Evaluating the cost of poverty alleviation transfer programs: an illustration based on PROGRESA in Mexico por Coady, David, Perez, Raul, Vera-Ilamas, Hadid

“…But very little empirical evidence exists on program costs. For example, a recent extensive international review of targeted poverty alleviation programs in developing countries could find data on costs for only 32 out of the 111 programs reviewed. …”
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China's past, present, and future food economy: can China continue to meet the challenges? por Rozelle, Scott, Rosegrant, Mark W.

“…It provides common threads of empirical evidence on China's agricultural growth, describing its interrelationships with institutions, development policies and environmental degradation, and examines the sensitivity of China's trade balances and world prices to environmental and growth outcomes, using six income growth and resource degradation scenarios. …”
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Heterogenous correlates of mechanization use and rural livelihoods in Zimbabwe: a quantile regression analysis por Ngoma, Hambulo, Mukamuri, Billy, Silva, João Vasco, Baudron, Frédéric

“…The drive to mechanize and modernize African agriculture is in high gear, making the need for empirical evidence to guide mechanization investments critical. …”
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Assessing agrifood system growth outcomes in Tajikistan por Khakimov, Parviz, Diao, Xinshen, Goibov, Manuchehr, Ashurov, Timur

“…To inform the policy by providing empirical evidence, in this brief, first we assess and compare diverse contributions of different agrifood value chains to broad development outcomes, second, we assess the effectiveness of agricultural productivity-led growth across agrifood value chain groups for achieving multiple development outcomes (economic growth, job creation, declining poverty, and improved diets) and inclusive agrifood system transformation in Tajikistan.…”
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Persistence of individual and social preferences in rural settings por Castillo, José Gabriel, Hernandez, Manuel A.

“…Preferences play a key role in decision-making and are generally assumed as time-invariant in economic modeling despite the mixed empirical evidence. We examine the stability of individual and social preferences in rural settings using the COVID-19 pandemic as a major global shock. …”
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Cash transfers, gender norms, and women’s control over decision-making in Egypt por El-Enbaby, Hoda, Gilligan, Daniel O., Karachiwalla, Naureen, Kassim, Yumna, Kurdi, Sikandra

“…Bargaining models predict that cash transfers targeted at women can increase women’s influence in household decisions; however, empirical evidence is mixed. We employ a fuzzy regression discontinuity design to identify the causal effect of Egypt’s national cash transfer program on women’s control over household decision-making. …”
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Impact of irrigation pump ownership on farm productivity in rice-wheat cropping systems of Nepal Terai por Adhikari, Roshan, Foster, Timothy, Paudel, Gokul P., Urfels, Anton, Adhikari, Subash, Krupnik, Timothy J.

“…Our findings provide empirical evidence of the positive impact of technology ownership on agricultural productivity and highlight the opportunities for policy interventions focused on improving performance of existing technologies for enabling long-term sustainable intensification of irrigated agriculture in the EIGP.…”
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A policy option for valuing irrigation water in the dry areas por Yigezu, Yigezu Atnafe, Aw-Hassan, Aden A., Shideed, Kamil, Sommer, Rolf, El-Shater, Tamer

“…Using a case study from Syria and applying a simple optimization model, this paper provides empirical evidence that a policy which introduces a penalty for excessive application of irrigation water would compel farmers to adopt water saving technologies. …”
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Assessing the factors underlying differences in achievements of farmer groups: methodological issues and empirical findings from the highlands of central Kenya por Place, Frank, Kariuki, G., Wangila, J., Makauki, A., Ndubi, J., Kristjanson, Patricia M.

“…Performance measures included subjective and objective ratings of success, including more objectively verifiable measures at household and group levels, derived from a survey of 87 groups and 442 households within four sites. Empirical evidence regarding explanatory factors for relative performance levels is presented using a special sample of 40 groups involved in tree nursery activities, with both descriptive analysis and regression models. …”
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Water scarcity and challenges for smallholder agriculture por Giordano, Meredith A., Barron, Jennie, Ünver, Olcay

“…The opportunity for scaling up high-impact solutions is also assessed against available empirical evidence. Sustainable Food and Agriculture: An Integrated Approach is the first book to look at the imminent threats to sustainable food security through a cross-sectoral lens. …”
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Permanence of PES and the role of social context in the Regional Integrated Silvo-pastoral Ecosystem Management Project in Costa Rica por Rasch, Sebastian, Wünscher, Tobias, Casasola, Francisco, Ibrahim, Muhammad

“…We present rare, empirical evidence on the permanence of land use changes induced by a payments for ecosystem services (PES) program. …”
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Effects of phenology and the microclimate on the seed set of Anemone nemorosa por Risser, Laurent

“…Nevertheless the phenomenon has been studied only for a small number of systems and organisms, and more empirical evidence to show that mismatch occurs and how it is affected by changes in environment. …”