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Adoption of interrelated sustainable agricultural practices in smallholder systems: Evidence from rural Tanzania
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In this article, the adoption and diffusion of sustainable agricultural practices (SAPs), as a way to tackle this challenge, has become an important issue in the development policy agenda in the region.Citations
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Adoption of multiple sustainable agricultural practices in rural Ethiopia
TL;DR: In this paper, the adoption and diffusion of sustainable agricultural practices (SAPs) has become an important issue in the development-policy agenda for sub-Saharan Africa, especially as a way to tackle land degradation, low agricultural productivity and poverty.
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Understanding the adoption of a portfolio of sustainable intensification practices in eastern and southern Africa.
TL;DR: This article explored smallholder farmers' adoption decisions of multiple sustainable intensification practices (SIPs) in eastern and southern Africa and found that some practices used in maize production are complementary while others are substitutable, and the adoption of SIPs is influenced by social capital and networks, quality of extension services, reliance on government support during crop failure, incidence of pests and diseases, resource constraints, tenure security, education, and market access.
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Cropping system diversification, conservation tillage and modern seed adoption in Ethiopia: Impacts on household income, agrochemical use and demand for labor
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a multinomial endogenous switching regression model of farmers' choice of combination of sustainable agricultural practices and impacts on maize income and agrochemicals and family labor use in rural Ethiopia.
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Adoption and Impacts of Sustainable Agricultural Practices on Maize Yields and Incomes: Evidence from Rural Zambia
TL;DR: This article used a multinomial endogenous treatment effects model and data from a sample of over 800 households and 3,000 plots to assess the determinants and impacts of adoption of sustainable agricultural practices (SAPs) on maize yields and household incomes in rural Zambia.
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Are there systematic gender differences in the adoption of sustainable agricultural intensification practices? Evidence from Kenya
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed plot level adoption decisions of SIPs by male, female or joint plot managers within the household, controlling for household characteristics, asset wealth and land quality factors that condition investments in intensification options.
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Governance matters VII : aggregate and individual governance indicators 1996-2007
TL;DR: The 2009 update of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) research project, covering 212 countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance between 1996 and 2008: Voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law, and Control of Corruption as discussed by the authors.
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Property Rights and Investment Incentives: Theory and Evidence from Ghana
TL;DR: In this article, the link between property rights and investment incentives was examined, and three theoretical arguments based on security of tenure, using land as collateral and obtaining gains from trade were developed.
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Governance matters VII: aggregate and individual governance indicators 1996-2007
TL;DR: The latest update of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) research project, covering 212 countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance between 1996 and 2007, is presented in this paper.
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Social Networks and Technology Adoption in Northern Mozambique
Oriana Bandiera,Imran Rasul +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse whether and how individual adoption decisions depend upon the choices of others in the same social networks. And they show that the relationship between the probability of adoption and the number of known adopters is shaped as an inverse-U.
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Sustainable intensification in African agriculture
TL;DR: In this article, the authors report that food outputs by sustainable intensification have been multiplicative and additive, by combining the use of new and improved varieties and new agronomic agroecological management (crop yields rose on average by 2.13-fold).