Search Results - "marginalism"

Welfare impacts of improved groundnut varieties adoption and food security implications in the semi-arid areas of West Africa by Lokossou, Jourdain C., Affognon, Hippolyte D., Singbo, Alphonse, Vabi, Michel B., Ogunbayo, Ayoni, Tanzubil, Paul, Segnon, Alcade C., Muricho, Geoffrey, Desmae, Haile, Ajeigbe, Hakeem A.

“…We apply the Cragg double hurdle model to understand the adoption process and a fixed-effects instrumental variable approach to estimate the impact on gross margins, household income, per capita income, food security, and poverty. …”
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Natural farming promotion in low-input, remote districts: A feminist political ecological analysis by Nichols, Carly E., Kumari, Nidhi

“…We found that in this context, the push for natural farming—particularly the focus on producing on-farm bio inputs—was unattractive to women who were either only first enjoying the fruits of less laborious production or who were marginal farmers that principally relied on labor work. …”
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Using technology to scale climate-smart agriculture, conservation agriculture, sustainable intensification, and nutrition interventions: Why use a GESI approach? by Nortje, Karen

“…Hence, gender-responsive agricultural technologies should close the existing gender gaps that allow marginalized groups to fight against food insecurity. …”
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Exclusion in community water governance in Bangladesh: An overlooked social issue by Sharma, Indu K., Garrett, James, Joshi, Deepa

“…Empirical evidence, however, suggests unequal access to water among women and marginalized populations. To zoom into this, we reviewed studies published after 2000 to synthesize evidence on access to water among women and marginalized people, their recognition and representation in institutions, and barriers to those, in Bangladesh. …”
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Modelling policies to improve affordability and consumptionof nutritious foods for complementary feeding in Kenya by Traoré, Fousseini, Omolo, Miriam, Beal, Ty, Nordhagen, Stella, Codjia, Patrick, Kiige, Laura, Kamudoni, Penjani, Arimi, Caroline, Kirogo, Veronica

“…Reducing transportation costs and trade margins and increasing maize productivity could further reduce the price of ASFs through lower production costs and increased consumption.…”
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Participatory plant breeding and participatory variety selection by Mamo, Teshale, Asheesh, Singh, Mahama, Anthony A.

“…However, the results of formal plant breeding may sometimes not meet the requirements of those farmers who grow their crops under marginal soils and high-stress environmental conditions (Sperling et al., 2001) thus necessitating different breeding approaches to be created to meet the needs of poor farmers. …”
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Risk aversion, impatience, and adoption of conservation agriculture practices among smallholders in Zambia by Simutowe, Esau, Ngoma, Hambulo, Manyanga, Mark, Silva, ‪João Vasco, Baudron, Frédéric, Nyagumbo, Isaiah, Kalala, Kelvin, Habeenzu, Mukwemba, Thierfelder, Christian

“…Second, on the intensive margin, impatience and risk aversion are significantly correlated with reduced adoption intensity of basins, ripping, minimum tillage (MT), and combined MT and rotation by 0.02–0.22 ha. …”
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Agricultural value chains in a fragile state: The case of rice in Myanmar by Minten, Bart, Goeb, Joseph, Win, Khin Zin, Zone, Phoo Pye

“…Despite many challenges in the rice value chain after the coup – most importantly linked to banking and transport – rice processing and trade continued, assuring availability of rice in most retail markets and illustrating the resilience of the value chain to such major shock. While processing margins were mostly stable, an increased distribution margin (between rice millers and retailers) led to 11 percent higher average retail prices after the coup, implying welfare losses of almost USD 0.5 billion for the country. …”
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Monitoring the agri-food system in Myanmar: Rice millers – March 2023 survey round by Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity

“…Despite the price hikes, millers are not extracting a disproportionate share of rice prices, and the prices of main byproducts, like broken rice and rice bran, have remained healthy, presenting positive prospects for mill profit margins.…”
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Mismatch between soil nutrient deficiencies and fertilizer applications: Implications for yield responses in Ethiopia by Abay, Kibrom A., Abay, Mehari Hiluf, Amare, Mulubrhan, Berhane, Guush, Aynekulu, Ermias

“…These findings suggest that such mismatches may explain heterogeneities in marginal returns to chemical fertilizers and the observed low adoption rates of chemical fertilizers in sub-Saharan Africa.…”
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Identifying farm typologies in Rwandan agriculture: A framework for improving targeted interventions by Benimana, Gilberthe Uwera, Warner, James, Mugabo, Serge

“…This group are wealthier, sell more crops with positive gross margins and larger landholdings. More specifically, farm type 4 is commercialized with higher access to agricultural extension services and inputs and farm type 5, also highly commercialized, but has significant livestock holdings as well. …”
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Nutrient production and micronutrient gaps: Evidence from an agriculture-nutrition randomized control trial by Dillon, Andrew, Arsenault, Joanne E., Olney, Deanna K.

“…Though crop choice led to a diversified household production of nutritious foods in treatment villages on the extensive production margin, increased household production of nutrients does not explain the improvements in diet quality due to limited treatment effects for the estimated production nutrient gaps at the intensive production margin. …”
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Geography of smallholders’ tractor adoptions and R&D–Induced land productivity: Evidence from household survey data in Ghana by Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Liu, Yanyan

“…These effects hold for mechanization adoptions at both extensive margins (whether to adopt or not) and intensive margins (how much to adopt). …”
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Hydroeconomic optimization of integrated water management and transfers under stochastic surface water supply by Zhu, Tingju, Marques, Guilherme Fernandes, Lund, Jay R.

“…Water transfers can equalize marginal values of water across users, while conjunctive use minimizes water marginal value differences in time. …”
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How to make agricultural extension demand-driven?: The case of India’s agricultural extension policy by Birner, Regina, Anderson, Jock R.

“…Many countries have recognized the need to revive agricultural advisory or extension services (the terms are used interchangeably here) as a means of using agriculture as an engine of pro-poor growth; reaching marginalized, poor, and female farmers; and addressing new challenges, such as environmental degradation and climate change. …”
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Biting the bullet: how to secure access to drylands resources for multiple users by Mwangi, Esther, Dohrn, Stephan

“…Because of their climatic conditions and political and economic marginalization drylands also have some of the highest incidents of poverty. …”
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Technical opportunities for sustaining wheat productivity growth toward 2020 by Pingali, Prabhu, Rajaram, Sanjaya

“…In the case of marginal environments, improved tolerance to physical stresses will continue to be the priority. …”
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Impact of risk-contingent credit and traditional credit on smallholders’ agricultural investment and productivity: Experimental evidence from Kenya by Ndegwa, Michael K., Shee, Apurba, Ward, Patrick S., Liu, Yanyan, Turvey, Calum G., You, Liangzhi

“…Uptake of RCC increased treated households’ farm investments—specifically, adoption of chemical fertilizers—by up to 14 percent along the extensive margins and by more than 100 percent along the intensive margins, while TC’s effects were less in both magnitude and statistical significance. …”
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The rice processing industry in Nepal: Constraints and opportunities by Joshi, Krishna Dev, Upadhyay, Santosh, Chaudhary, Pashupati, Shrestha, Suchit, Bhattarai, Kamal, Tripathi, Bhaba Prasad

“…The price and profit margins increased from coarse to fine rice varieties and from Arwa to parboiled and steamed rice. …”
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End of Initiative Report of Agroecology: ICRISAT Longitudinal Impact Assessment of Natural Farming on Soil Health, Microbial Diversity, and their Interconnected Response Functions... by Jat, Mangi L., Rooyen, Andre F. van, Singh, Ramesh, Pasumarthi, Rajesh, Choudhari, Pushpajeet

“…The key component of the initiative focuses on building scientific evidence on the agroecology based natural farming practices carried out by small and marginal farmers from Andhra Pradesh state of India. …”
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