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Improving women’s access to land is high on the agricultural policy agenda of both governmental and non-governmental agencies. Yet, the determinants and rationale of gendered access to land are not well understood.
For decades, policymakers and development practitioners have debated benefits and threats of property rights formalization and private versus customary tenure systems.
Utilizing a spatial multi-market model for rice in Nigeria that explicitly takes into account the potential for smuggling, in this paper we analyze the welfare implications of alternative rice tariff rates given the government’s goals of spurring domestic production and reducing imports.
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We estimate the impact of improved market access on household well-being and nutrition using a quasi-experimental setting in Ethiopia.
Can more vigorous political competition significantly raise rural land values, or contribute to more robust land rental markets?
Traditional food marketing systems in developing countries are often not trusted. In consequence, policy makers frequently try to regulate them and modern market arrangements increasingly are emerging to address some of their presumed deficiencies.
More than 300 million Africans, about 30 percent of the total population, live more than one day away from the nearest port.