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Welfare impacts of smallholder farmers’ participation in multiple output markets: Empirical evidence from Tanzania
A relatively large body of literature has documented the welfare effects of smallholder farmers’ participation in single-commodity output markets.
Are smallholder farmers credit constrained? Evidence on demand and supply constraints of credit in Ethiopia and Tanzania
Credit constraint is considered by many as one of the key barriers to adoption of modern agricultural technologies, such as chemical fertilizer, improved seeds, and irrigation technologies, among smallholders.
Assessment of El Niño impacts and grain trade policy responses in East and Southern Africa
This study analyzes recent household data on Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia to assess the impact of the most recent El Niño in East and Southern Africa and the trade policy responses to it.
What happens after technology adoption? Gendered aspects of small-scale irrigation technologies in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tanzania
Drawing on qualitative data from Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tanzania, this paper develops a framework for examining the intrahousehold distribution of benefits from technology adoption, focusing on small-scale irrigation technologies.
Equity–efficiency optimizing resource allocation
Tanzania
The supply of inorganic fertilizers to smallholder farmers in Tanzania: Evidence for fertilizer policy development
This paper presents the results of a broad study of fertilizer supply to smallholder farmers in Tanzania that was done to assess whether the taxes (explicit or implicit) that are applied at various points along the fertilizer importation and marke
Institutional changes and transaction costs: Exchange arrangements in Tanzania's coffee market
This case study presents an assessment of institutional and organizational changes in Tanzania’s coffee market following market liberalization.