Agriculture
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Providing information to empower women in agriculture: Evidence from Uganda
Targeting women directly with relevant information in ways that are appealing increases their agency, access to resources, and achievements in farming
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Buy as you need: Nutrition and food storage imperfections in Burkina Faso
Creating village-level cooperatives to buy grain from outside sources and sell it locally reduced nutritional stress, especially among the young
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Impacts of water loss on low-income farmers in India
Farmers with dried up wells cultivate less land with fewer profitable crops, while taking up relatively more off-farm employment opportunities
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Temporary agricultural input subsidies have lasting impacts: The Mozambique experiment
Subsidies need not be permanent to benefit farmers. Well-designed policy that encourages experimentation can generate widespread and lasting impacts.
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The effects of land reforms on farm size and agricultural productivity
Land reforms, whilst well-intended, misallocate land and labour across farms, thereby reducing average farm size and agricultural productivity
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Workers unite: Cooperative property rights and development in El Salvador
Evidence from land reform in El Salvador shows that private property rights are not necessarily more efficient than cooperative property rights
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How do farmers cope with extreme heat?
When exposed to harmful high temperatures, subsistence farmers increase their use of land and change their crop mix to mitigate the decline in output
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Improving agricultural extension and information services in the developing world
Information services can substantially increase the productivity and profitability of smallholder farmers as long as certain criteria are met
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Misperceived quality: Fertiliser in Tanzania
Evidence from Tanzania shows fertiliser quality is not the problem, rather it is farmers’ perceived belief of bad fertiliser quality that is