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Showing 1 to 20 of 166 for “"Agricultural productivity"”.
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Financial Sector Development and Agricultural Productivity
… concern is rising about the performance of the agricultural sector in view of its integral role in poverty alleviation, economic development and meeting an ever-increasing nutritional demand. At the epicenter of the concern is declining productivity due to poor financial inclusion of the sector …
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How does trade impact agricultural productivity?
The student, Akshay Pandit, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2020-07-22 at 15:29.
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Agricultural productivity and climate shocks in developing countries
… three chapters studying factors limiting agricultural productivity in developing countries. Climate change is a significant threat for the developing world countries, and agricultural households experience changes in their productive context, forcing them to adapt to the new environment. …
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Effects of climate on agricultural productivity in China
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996.
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The impact of credit constraints on agricultural productivity in Tanzania
… paper uses a nationally representative sample of agricultural businesses in Tanzania to empirically investigate the determinants of credit constraint status and its impact on agricultural productivity. In particular, we directly elicit the nature of the credit constraints experienced by crop …
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Impacts of foreign assistance on less-developed countries' agricultural productivity
… foreign assistance on less-developed countries' agricultural productivity. The study employed a Cobb- Douglas production function model. Several alternative model specifications were utilized in an attempt to model the true relationship between agricultural inputs and output. First, the foreign …
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Market failures, task-based production model and the agricultural productivity gap
La brecha de productividad agrícola es uno de los principales problemas de las economías en desarrollo. Las metodologías utilizadas para evaluar estos niveles de productividad dependen en gran medida de supuestos sobre la función de producción que, la mayoría de las veces, no tienen en cuenta la …
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Investigating the relationship between agricultural productivity and economic growth in Namibia
… this study investigated the relationship between agricultural productivity and economic growth in Namibia. The study specifically aimed to investigate the long run relationship between agricultural productivity and economic growth. Moreover, the study aimed to determine the direction of causality …
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Assessing the impact of credit finance on agricultural productivity in Namibia
… thesis explores the impact of credit finance on agricultural productivity in Namibia, with the goal of promoting innovative, economically oriented, and modern agriculture to enhance rural living standards and drive food production. The study utilizes the bounds test (ARDL) approach to …
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Rural womens' agricultural productivity at Nkonjeni Area : capacity building and empowerment
… strengths and weaknesses of the rural women's agricultural productivity and problems facing the farming women in the Nkonjeni area. It looked at the issues like deprivation of land ownership for the rural women, lack of appropriate education, not having access to working capital and an overload …
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A qualitative analysis of social enterprises as mechanisms for boosting agricultural productivity in Kenya
… role that social enterprises play in the Kenyan agricultural sector and investigate the factors that influence the development of agricultural social enterprises in Kenya. The data analysed for this study was collected via semi-structured interviews as part of a wider study, 'A case study of …
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Impact of on-farm water storage for increasing agricultural productivity of rice farms in Thailand
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2002.
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Rural credit and agricultural productivity; does access to credit matter? evidence from smallholder maize farmers in Zambia
… evidence that access to credit is critical for agricultural production, it is still unclear whether access to credit improves agricultural productivity. Productivity improvement are key to reducing wastages and sustainably increasing household incomes, and ultimately, their economic welfare. …
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The institutional factors that influence women's agricultural productivity : the case of Igbo women of South-Eastern Nigeria
This thesis examines the role of women in agricultural development and identifies the institutional factors (access to land; credit; machines, improved seedlings and fertilizer; extension services; cooperative facilities) that constitute a hindrance to their agricultural productivity. From an …
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Multiscale Study of the Interactions between Climate, Land Use, and Agricultural Productivity in Western Sahel: A Case Study of Chad
… West 10.815, East 24.219, and South 7.328. Agricultural productivity country summary data for Chad was obtained from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. Other data sets, including the Landsat imagery used for deriving land use and land cover information …
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Mapping the evidence on the impacts of agroforestry on agricultural productivity, ecosystem services, and human wellbeing in high-income countries
DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #14366 on 2019-11-26 at 12:54:12
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Essays on Malawian agriculture: Micro-level welfare impacts of agricultural productivity; profitability of fertilizer use; and targeting of fertilizer subsidy programs
… analyzes the micro-level welfare impacts of agricultural productivity. Welfare is measured by various dimensions of poverty and food insecurity; and agricultural productivity is measured by maize yield and value of crop output per hectare. Depending on the measure of welfare, the impact of …
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The worlds of agriculture in Asia : agricultural and economic development
… argue that economic growth causes agricultural productivity. It is the main engine of growth in agriculture-based countries; less important in transforming economies; and plays the same role as other tradable sectors in urbanized countries (World Bank, 2008). This work revisits …
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Sustaining agricultural growth in China : a case for land privatization?
… based on a system of private incentives, China's agricultural output increased significantly. After the successful implementation of the Household Responsibility System (HRS) in agrarian China after the 1978 economic reforms, agricultural productivity finally surpassed the levels in the early …
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Incentives to Plant Trees in Tigray Ethiopia: Interactions of Public Microdams and Health
… countries face the dual tasks of increasing agricultural productivity and ensuring sustainability of resources. The government of Ethiopia initiated a major rural development program in Tigray, Ethiopia ten years ago, called SAERT (Sustainable Agricultural and Environmental Rehabilitation), …
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