Serge G Adjognon,Lenis Saweda O Liverpool-Tasie,Thomas A Reardon
Serge G Adjognon
Recent evidence shows that many Sub-Saharan African farmers use modern inputs, but there is limited information on how these inputs are financed. We use recent nationally representative data from four countries to explore input financing an...
Klaus Deininger,Sara Savastano,Fang Xia
Klaus Deininger
While scholars long recognized the importance of land markets as a key driver of rural non-farm development and transformation in rural areas, evidence on the extent of their operation and the nature of participants remains limited. We use ...
Agricultural factor markets in Sub-Saharan Africa: An updated view with formal tests for market failure [0.03%]
东非的农业要素市场：带有正式测试的市场失效的新观点
Brian Dillon,Christopher B Barrett
Brian Dillon
This paper uses the recently collected Living Standard Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture Initiative data sets from five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to provide a comprehensive overview of factor market participation by ...
Amparo Palacios-Lopez,Luc Christiaensen,Talip Kilic
Amparo Palacios-Lopez
The contribution of women to labor in African agriculture is regularly quoted in the range of 60-80%. Using individual, plot-level labor input data from nationally representative household surveys across six Sub-Saharan African countries, t...
Is increasing inorganic fertilizer use for maize production in SSA a profitable proposition? Evidence from Nigeria [0.03%]
在西非的尼日利亚，不断增加无机肥料使用进行玉米生产是盈利的选择吗？证据来自尼日利亚
Lenis Saweda O Liverpool-Tasie,Bolarin T Omonona,Awa Sanou et al.
Lenis Saweda O Liverpool-Tasie et al.
Inorganic fertilizer use across Sub-Saharan Africa is generally considered to be low. Yet, the notion that fertilizer use is too low is predicated on the assumption that it is profitable to use rates higher than currently observed. There is...
Hans P Binswanger-Mkhize,Sara Savastano
Hans P Binswanger-Mkhize
Boserup and Ruthenberg (BR) provided the framework to analyze the impact of population growth and market access on the intensification of farming systems. Prior evidence in Africa is consistent with the framework. Over the past two decades,...
Ten striking facts about agricultural input use in Sub-Saharan Africa [0.03%]
关于撒哈拉以南非洲农业投入使用的十个惊人事实
Megan Sheahan,Christopher B Barrett
Megan Sheahan
Conventional wisdom holds that Sub-Saharan African farmers use few modern inputs despite the fact that most poverty-reducing agricultural growth in the region is expected to come largely from expanded use of inputs that embody improved tech...
Luc Christiaensen
Luc Christiaensen
Stylized facts drive research agendas and policy debates. Yet robust stylized facts are hard to come by, and when available, often outdated. The 12 papers in this Special Issue revisit conventional wisdom on African agriculture and its farm...
Welfare impacts of improved chickpea adoption: A pathway for rural development in Ethiopia? [0.03%]
更好的小扁豆的采用对福利的影响：埃塞俄比亚农村发展的途径？
Simone Verkaart,Bernard G Munyua,Kai Mausch et al.
Simone Verkaart et al.
We analyse the impact of improved chickpea adoption on welfare in Ethiopia using three rounds of panel data. First, we estimate the determinants of improved chickpea adoption using a double hurdle model. We apply a control function approach...
Daniel Maxwell,Nisar Majid,Guhad Adan et al.
Daniel Maxwell et al.
In 2011-12, Somalia experienced the worst famine of the twenty- first century. Since then, research on the famine has focused almost exclusively on the external response, the reasons for the delay in the international response, and the impl...