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  Rural development & energy policy: lessons from agricultural mechanisation in South Asia

  Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2011

  In terms of agricultural and rural mechanisation, a great deal has happened on the ground since the debates of the 1970s. The diversity of South Asia's mechanisation experiences can be used to help policy debates, concerning rural and agricultural development.
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  A randomized evaluation of the effects of an agricultural insurance program on rural households’ behavior: evidence from China

  International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2014

  The provision of weather insurance is a potential way of shielding farmers from weather related shocks and reducing poverty. However, the use of weather insurance is not widespread in many countries. In China, even with a government subsidy of 70 per cent, the take-up of weather insurance is quite low.
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  Neighborhood and agricultural clusters across states of India

  Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014

  Huge disparity across states has been a perennial feature of Indian agriculture, and the subject matter of several studies, government reports and policy documents. This study traces how number and members of income clusters have changed in Indian agriculture over the last four and a half decades.
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  MGNREGA works and their impacts: A Rapid assessment in Maharashtra

  Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014

  The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) was notified on September 5, 2005 and implemented in three phases covering all districts over time. Although the focus is on augmenting wage employment, it is ambitious in scope and aims to accomplish a number of things.
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  The effects of the European Union-imposed livestock identification and traceback system on Botswana’s beef exports and rural poverty

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2011

  In 1997 the EU introduced a requirement that beef imports be traceable through a computerised system. To ensure continued access to the EU market, Botswana introduced the livestock identification and traceback system (LITS).
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  Rural wage employment: is there a premium for agriculture?

  Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2014

  This paper investigates the determinants of rural and non-rural wages using the quarterly Labor Force Survey (LFS) collected by the Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS). It estimates the wage equation for rural and non-rural workers controlling for structural, socioeconomic, and political factors.
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  The Chinyanja Triangle in the Zambezi River Basin, Southern Africa: status of, and prospects for, agriculture, natural resources management and rural development

  International Water Management Institute, 2014

  This paper, which focuses on the Chinyanja Triangle (CT), an area inside the Zambezi River Basin, characterises three distinct farming subsystems across rainfall gradients, namely maize-beans-fish, sorghum-millet-livestock and the livestock-dominated subsystem.
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  Improving basic services for the bottom forty percent - lessons from Ethiopia

  World Bank, 2014

  Ethiopia, like most developing countries, has opted to deliver services such as basic education, primary health care, agricultural extension advice, water, and rural roads through a highly decentralised system.
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  Cereal market dynamics: the Malian experience from the 1990s to present.

  Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 2012

  This paper assesses the role that cereal markets could play in contributing to poverty reduction in both urban areas through reductions in food prices and rural areas through increases in farm incomes, focusing particularly on the Malian experience.
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  A strategic agricultural sector and food security diagnostic for Burma

  Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 2013

  Despite its enormous potential, Myanmar’s agriculture has underperformed over the past fifty years. Furthermore, given that two-thirds of the population works primarily in agriculture, low farm productivity translates into high rates of poverty and food insecurity.

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