Highlights: We use a unique data set to analyze rural households' purchases of food in Sub-Saharan Africa using nationally representative data with 65,000 observations covering...
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In rural sub-Saharan Africa, where malnutrition in all its forms is rife, the greatest gap between the availability of foods and the foods needed for a nutritious diet are faced...
Highlights: Poverty among cocoa farmers is a challenge in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. The LID policy aims to mitigate poverty among cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana...
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We determine the effect of crop diversification on technical efficiency.
We determine the effect of crop diversification on income variability.
Stochastic input distance function and...
Poverty reduction through rural development can be supported by the engagement of smallholders in commercial value chains that are based on rewarding market prices for the creation of inclusive...
We estimate the effects of increased exposure to agricultural technologies on farmers' adoption and economic well-being in Ghana, Mali, and Senegal using post-implementation data collected in 2019. The program...
Many sources indicate that smallholder tree-crop commodity farmers are poor, but there is a paucity of data on how many of them are poor and the depth of poverty. The living...
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Government of Ghana’s effort to reduce income inequality consistently poses a major challenge to public policy formulation. The promotion and dissemination of agricultural technologies as a pathway out...
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Food security is a major development concern worldwide. The use of arable lands to grow cash crops raises additional concerns, yet empirical evidence on...
While many sources indicate that smallholder commodity farmers are poor, there is a lack of data on the number and the depth of poverty. Using datasets on smallholder cocoa and tea...