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Isolation and agricultural productivity
David Stifel,Bart Minten +1 more
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In this paper, the authors examined the mechanisms that transmit isolation into productivity in the case of Madagascar and found that the inverse relationship between agricultural productivity and isolation is surprisingly strong, and identified the following reasons why productivity might decline with isolation: transportation-induced transaction costs, increasing price variability and extensification onto less fertile land and insecurity.About:
This article is published in Agricultural Economics.The article was published on 2008-07-01. It has received 176 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Productivity & Agricultural productivity.read more
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Agricultural Technology, Productivity, and Poverty in Madagascar
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use a spatially-explicit dataset to study the link between agricultural performance and rural poverty in Madagascar and show that communes that have higher rates of adoption of improved agricultural technologies and, consequently, higher crop yields enjoy lower food prices, higher real wages for unskilled workers, and better welfare indicators.
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Factors influencing the intensity of market participation by smallholder farmers: A case study of rural and peri-urban areas of Kenya
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined factors that influence the intensity of market participation among smallholder farmers in Kenya and found that farmers in peri-urban areas sold higher proportions of their output than those in rural areas.
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Productivity, transport costs and subsistence agriculture ☆
Douglas Gollin,Richard Rogerson +1 more
TL;DR: This paper developed a multi-sector multi-region model of a poor economy in which it is costly to transport goods across regions in order to study this outcome and found that higher transport costs drive up the size of the agricultural workforce and the fraction in subsistence.
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Unpacking the Meaning of ‘Market Access’: Evidence from Rural Kenya
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the dimensions of market access using farm panel survey data from Kenya and investigate changes in ten indicators of the market access during the 1997-2010 post-liberalization period.
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