Envirodevonomics: A research agenda for an emerging field

M Greenstone, BK Jack - Journal of Economic Literature, 2015 - aeaweb.org
Environmental quality in many develo** countries is poor and generates substantial
health and productivity costs. However, the few existing measures of marginal willingness to …

[HTML][HTML] Access to rural credit markets in develo** countries, the case of Vietnam: A literature review

TN Linh, HT Long, LV Chi, LT Tam, P Lebailly - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
Agricultural sectors play an important role in the process of economic development of a
country, especially in develo** ones. Vietnam is known as an emerging market, which …

[KNIHA][B] The state of food security and nutrition in the world 2022: Repurposing food and agricultural policies to make healthy diets more affordable

World Health Organization - 2022 - books.google.com
This year's report should dispel any lingering doubts that the world is moving backwards in
its efforts to end hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms. We are now only …

Middle-range theories of land system change

BB Balana, MA Oyeyemi - World Development Sustainability, 2022 - Elsevier
The agricultural sector in develo** countries like Nigeria is characterized by low
productivity, driven partly by low use of modern agricultural technologies. Poor access to …

Climate change and agriculture: Subsistence farmers' response to extreme heat

FM Aragón, F Oteiza, JP Rud - American Economic Journal: Economic …, 2021 - aeaweb.org
This paper examines how subsistence farmers respond to extreme heat. Using microdata
from Peruvian households, we find that high temperatures reduce agricultural productivity …

Rural roads and local economic development

S Asher, P Novosad - American economic review, 2020 - aeaweb.org
Nearly one billion people worldwide live in rural areas without access to national paved
road networks. We estimate the impacts of India's $40 billion national rural road construction …

Adoption of improved wheat varieties and impacts on household food security in Ethiopia

B Shiferaw, M Kassie, M Jaleta, C Yirga - Food policy, 2014 - Elsevier
This article evaluates the impact of the adoption of improved wheat varieties on food security
using a recent nationally-representative dataset of over 2000 farm households in Ethiopia …

Impact of modern agricultural technologies on smallholder welfare: Evidence from Tanzania and Ethiopia

S Asfaw, B Shiferaw, F Simtowe, L Lipper - Food policy, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper evaluates the potential impact of adoption of improved legume technologies on
rural household welfare measured by consumption expenditure in rural Ethiopia and …