Search Results - "marginalism"

Research protocol: On farm field trials to improve mungbean productivity through fertilizer management by Hossain, Md Khaled, Saleh Mohammad Shahriar, Atikuzzamman, Md, Gathala, Mahesh K., Laing, Alison M.

“…Mungbean is an important pulse crop in Bangladesh, where it is primarily grown in the south by small and marginal farming households who produce two-thirds of the total national mungbean crop. …”
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Farming cattle in the tropics: Transnational science and industrializing pastures in Brazil by Nehring, Ryan

“…One of the key conclusions of this article is that perspectives from the margins can be illustrative of how seemingly unimportant research (forage grass breeding) can have massive consequences as part of a broader socio-environmental system.…”
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Monitoring the agri-food system in Myanmar: Agricultural crop traders – April 2023 survey by Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity

“…However, local trading margins (as percentages of sales prices) have declined slightly since 2021, signaling continued competitiveness in crop trading. …”
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Profitability and sustainability of small-scale aquafeed producers in Ghana by Ragasa, Catherine, Osei-Mensah, Yaa Oguabi, Ataa-Asantewa, Martha, Kruijssen, Froukje

“…Of six producers with detailed profit data, five experienced positive profits ranging from 0.34 to 1.86 cedi per kg of feed produced (8–35 percent profit margin). Small-scale producers sell tilapia feed at 3.75–5.33 cedi/kg and catfish feed at 3.25–6.13 cedi/kg, 10–35 percent cheaper than the most popular commercial feed (Raanan), excluding transportation costs. …”
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The US animal insurance program: Rapid expansion at a growing cost to taxpayers by Glauber, Joseph W.

“…Unlike crop insurance, which indemnifies producers based on production or revenue losses, livestock insurance protects producers against declines in futures prices for livestock products or against declines in futures price margins between output and input products (for example, feed costs). …”
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Land as a binding constraint to cluster-based development in Ethiopia: To cluster or not to cluster? by Dureti, Guyo Godana, Tabe-Ojong, Martin Paul Jr.

“…Results We show a positive association between farm size and cluster farming both at the extensive and intensive margins. This relationship turns negative for large amounts of land. …”
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Impacts of a digital credit-insurance bundle for landless farmers: Evidence from a cluster randomized trial in Odisha, India by Kramer, Berber, Pattnaik, Subhransu, Ward, Patrick S., Xu, Yingchen

“…In conclusion, digital technologies can contribute substantially to expansion in agricultural credit access, risk management, resilience, and well-being among marginalized landless farmers.…”
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Production and marketing of chili in the Brong-Ahafo area of Ghana by Vigneri, Marcella, Kolavalli, Shashidhara, Agandin, John, Moyo, Qondi

“…Prices vary geographically by day and by marketing channel. The margins earned by traders on the sale price of their chilis range from 20 to 100 percent under different conditions. …”
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When implementation goes wrong: Lessons from crop insurance in India by Nirmal, Rajalakshmi, Babu, Suresh Chandra

“…Although this new program filled many gaps in the previous crop insurance interventions, it still could not attract smallholder and marginal farmers to fully subscribe to it. It also faced its own set of challenges. …”
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Urban food prices under lockdown: Evidence from Myanmar’s traditional food retail sector during COVID-19 by Goeb, Joseph, Maredia, Mywish K., Win, Khin Zin, Masias, Ian, Lambrecht, Isabel B., Boughton, Duncan, Minten, Bart

“…Lockdowns had smaller effects on prices for highly processed food items sourced directly from companies, but larger effects on prices for raw or lightly processed commodities sourced through wholesale markets, which comprise a larger share of urban consumer’s diets. Retailer margins did not change significantly under lockdown restrictions, suggesting no evidence of price gouging. …”
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Land plot size, machine use and agricultural intensification in China by Liu, Yanyan, Zhou, Yuan

“…China's farming system, like that of many Asian Countries, is characterized by small landholdings, a high degree of land fragmentation, and high intensification at both the intensive and extensive margin. Although China has experienced rapid farm mechanization in recent decades thanks to the rapid development of machinery rental markets, the extent to which mechanization can be realized in China's farming system remains a critical question. …”
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Making pulses affordable again: Policy options from the farm to retail in India by Joshi, Pramod Kumar, Kishore, Avinash, Roy, Devesh

“…The increase in farmgate prices due to a higher MSP will not necessarily lead to an increase in the retail price of pulses because much of the wedge between farmgate prices and consumer prices is traders’ margin. Including subsidized pulses in public distribution systems can save households some money, but it has only a small effect on total consumption of pulses and almost no effect on total protein intake. …”
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The effect of land access on youth employment and migration decisions: Evidence from rural Ethiopia by Kosec, Katrina, Ghebru, Hosaena, Holtemeyer, Brian, Mueller, Valerie, Schmidt, Emily

“…On the one hand, the fact that the land rental market in Ethiopia is supply constrained due to market and policy distortions marginalizes youth and serves as a push factor leading them to look elsewhere for a livelihood strategy. …”
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Transforming the rural nonfarm economy by Haggblade, Steven, Hazell, Peter B. R., Reardon, Thomas

“…In poor agrarian countries struggling with growing numbers of marginal farmers and lackluster agricultural performance, such as those in much of Africa, policymakers view the rural nonfarm economy as a potential alternative to agriculture for stimulating rural income growth. …”
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From streets to tables: Bottom-up cocreation case studies for healthier food environments in Vietnam and Nigeria by Even, Brice, Crawford, Scarlett, Shittu, Oluyemisi F., Lundy, Mark, Wertheim-Heck, Sigrid, Samuel, Folake O., Talsma, Elise F., Pastori, Giulia, Huong, Le Thi, Hernandez, Ricardo, Brouwer, Inge D., Béné, Christophe

“…Employing a mixed-methods approach that includes quantitative surveys, qualitative interviews, participatory workshops, and focus group discussions, we demonstrate that bottom-up co-creation processes involving marginalized socioeconomic groups can generate retail-level innovations that are tailored to informal retail contexts, while remaining aligned with established top-down theories and literature pertaining to food environments and healthy diets. …”
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Who is more water insecure? Gendered evidence from urban Pakistan by Khalid, Sidra, Hafeez, Mohsin, Aqib, S.

“…Through a binary logit model and marginal effects analysis, we analyzed the relationship between water security and multiple variables, including gender, education, age, employment status, payment for water, urban wealth quintile, drinking water source, individual water concern level, water satisfaction, and water quality perception. …”
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Understanding farm typology for targeting agricultural development in mixed crop-livestock farming systems of Ethiopia by Awoke Eshetae, Meron, Abera, Wuletawu, Tamene, Lulseged D., Mulatu, Kalkidan, Tesfaye, Abonesh

“…The merged typology results show that a combination of medium resource endowment with medium income, medium technology, and low food and nutrition security farm type (34%) is the dominant farm type in the study areas followed by a farm type combining low resource endowment with low income, high technology and marginal food and nutrition secure (21%). The findings of this study provide several insights into targeting and scaling domain-specific agricultural development interventions that can be applicable for sustainable intensification of mixed farming systems. …”
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Agricultural R&D in the Philippines: Policy, investments, and institutional profile by Stads, Gert-Jan, Faylon, Patricio S., Buendia, Leah J.

“…Foreign donor support plays only a marginal role in the Philippine agricultural R&D system, distinguishing it from some other countries in the region. …”
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Agricultural R&D in the Philippines: Policy, investments, and institutional profile by Stads, Gert-Jan, Faylon, Patricio S., Buendia, Leah J.

“…Foreign donor support plays only a marginal role in the Philippine agricultural R&D system, distinguishing it from some other countries in the region. …”
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Implications of bulk water transfer on local water management institutions: A case study of the Melamchi Water Supply Project in Nepal by Pant, Dhruba, Bhattarai, Madhusudan, Basnet, Govinda

“…Our study shows that traditional informal water management institutions were effective in regulating present water use practices in the water supplying basin, but the situation will vastly change because of the scale of water transfer, and power inequity between the organized public sector on one side and dispersed and unorganized marginal water users on the other. The small scale of water usage and multiple informal arrangements at the local level have made it difficult for the local users and institutions to collectively bargain and negotiate with the central water transfer authority for a fair share of project benefits and compensation for the losses imposed on them. …”
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