West Bengal is currently implementing new policies facilitating the access to electrified irrigation for farmers and expects to initiate a second Green Revolution. Based on primary data, this paper aims to estimate the potential impact of these electrification policies. Using a discontinuity desi...
Buisson, Marie-Charlotte
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[What does pump sets electrification change? impacts on cropping patterns, productivity and incomes in West Bengal]
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What does pump sets electrification change? impacts on cropping patterns, productivity and incomes in West Bengal
Gebregziabher, Gebrehaweria
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Haileslassie, Amare
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Biazin, B.
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Schmitter, Petra
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Chali, A.
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Otoo, Miriam
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Lefore, Nicole
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Barron, Jennie
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Tegegne, Desalegn
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Dubale, T.
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[Solar-powered water pumping can boost smallholder income: a business model based on action research from LIVES [Livestock and Irrigation Value Chains for Ethiopian Smallholders] and Africa RISING [Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation] sites]
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Solar-powered water pumping can boost smallholder income: a business model based on action research from LIVES [Livestock and Irrigation Value Chains for Ethiopian Smallholders] and Africa RISING [Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation] sites
Agricultural practices are changing at an unprecedented rate in small pockets of the dry zone of Sri Lanka. Commercial vegetable production is flourishing underwritten by groundwater accessed via agro-wells, increased market access and new business opportunities. Since the early 1990s, small-hold...
Silva, Sanjiv de
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Curnow, J.
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Ariyaratne, Badugodahewa Ranjith
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[Resilience and prosperity through agro-well driven cultivation in the north central province, Sri Lanka: a case study on its evolution, structure and impacts]
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Resilience and prosperity through agro-well driven cultivation in the north central province, Sri Lanka: a case study on its evolution, structure and impacts
Africa's demand for food and Development means added pressure on natural resources that are already threatened. There is therefore, and urgent need for technical innovations that will raise productivity of livestosk and crops without causing further environmental degradation. But technical innova...
Using a linear programming model based on data from smallholdings in the Ethiopian highlands, this paper evaluates the farm level economic efficiency of cow traction and the traditional oxen-pair. Cow traction farm technology has the potential for increasing the net income of farmers at the exist...
Panin, A.
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Brokken, R.F.
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[Economic analysis of cow traction farm technology in the Ethiopian highlands]
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Economic analysis of cow traction farm technology in the Ethiopian highlands
Reports findings from a socio-economic survey of farming households in Abet area in subhumid Nigeria concentrating on allocation of household & non-household labour during the year & its allocation among the various crops grown in the area, sources & amounts of income and patterns of expenditure.
Andrade, M.I.
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Naico, A.
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Low, J.W.
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[Batata doce de polpa alaranjada como fonte de rendimento para os agricultores mocambicanos.]
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Batata doce de polpa alaranjada como fonte de rendimento para os agricultores mocambicanos.