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Vast amounts of resources are spent on support to agriculture, with questionable results for agriculture, for national incomes, for nutrition and for the environment.
Measurement error mechanisms matter: Agricultural intensification with farmer misperceptions and misreporting
This paper was named AAEA's Best Paper at their 2022 Annual Meeting.
Risk preference and adoption of risk management strategies: Evidence from high-value crop production in emerging economy
Risk and risk preferences are considered as important drivers on farm management, crop choice, and land use decisions. A farmer’s choice of risk management strategies is of vital importance for the viability and continuation of the farm business.
Cooperative membership, contracts, and production efficiency: A selectivity-corrected analysis of smallholder farmers
Background: Cooperatives are considered as efficient institutional innovation for smallholders to access input and output; Cooperatives can help balance the power between contractors and smallholders in contract farming (CF); Cooperatives play an
A case for space: The efficiency spillover effect of iron biofortified beans in Rwanda
This paper provides an analysis on the technical efficiency of iron biofortified bean production in Rwanda, as well as recommendations for implementation of targeted biofortification programs.
The public benefits of private technology adoption
The impact of food price shocks in Uganda
Learning synergy in social networks
Leveling with friends
Spatial externalities in aquifers with varying thickness
Effects of smoking on agricultural productivity
Objective: We estimate the effect of primary farmer’s smoking status on the productivity of family labor working in the household’s main agricultural land; Agricultural productivity is measured by value addition per acre, which is the value of out