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The literature suggests a wide range of impacts of improved transport connectivity on agricultural growth. Still, the infrastructure-growth nexus remains somewhat mysterious, particularly in the African context, because many rural farmers do not have their own transport means. Using data from...

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Optimal locational choice for agrobusinesses in Madagascar : an application of spatial autoregressive Tobit regression

Iimi, Atsushi - 2018

The traditional location theory predicts that firms' locational choice is independent of the output demand. However, firms are often concentrated in large markets. In Africa, agrobusinesses are expected to play an important role to facilitate agricultural growth but are hardly available in rural...

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Working with Smallholders : A Handbook for Firms Building Sustainable Supply Chains

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Enabling the Business of Agriculture 2019

World Bank Group - 2019

Enabling the Business of Agriculture 2019 presents indicators that measure the laws, regulations and bureaucratic processes that affect farmers in 101 countries. The study covers eight thematic areas: supplying seed, registering fertilizer, securing water, registering machinery, sustaining...

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Agribusiness in South Asia

Chodavarapu, Soujanya - 2016

Agribusiness (including agriculture) accounts for almost one third of South Asia's GDP and has the potential to almost …

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Russia : Policies for Agri-Food Sector Competitiveness and Investment

World Bank Group - 2017

Despite advances in agricultural production, TFP, and trade balances, Russia continues to lag behind many comparator countries in measures of crop and livestock productivity. This report has aimed to provide a vehicle for dialogue with government on agri-food sector collaboration to address this...

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The Role of ICT Regulations in Agribusiness and Rural Development

Kayumova, Marina - 2017

Agriculture plays a vital role in the development of many countries. Access to markets, finance and information are cornerstones for agricultural growth. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) supports farmers by facilitating access to markets through real-time data on market prices,...

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Future of Food : Maximizing Finance for Development in Agricultural Value Chains

Townsend, Robert - 2018

Current levels of investment in agricultural value chains are insufficient to achieve key development goals including ending poverty and hunger, boosting shared prosperity through more and better jobs, and better stewarding the world's natural resources by 2030. Crowding-in private investment to...

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Ethiopia Women Agribusiness Leaders Network Impact Evaluation : Baseline Survey Report

Ketema, Tigist - 2015

evaluation of the women in agribusiness leadership network (WALN), a transformational project implemented in Ethiopia by … agribusiness outcomes by addressing gender differences in productivity, profitability, participation, and leadership in the sector … the selected high-potential women leaders in the agribusiness sector. In order to assess and interpret the impact …

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Kyrgyz Republic : Developing Agri-Food Value Chains

World Bank Group - 2018

The prevalence of small farmers and small-scale agri-food processors creates unique challenges for agri-food value-chain development in Kyrgyzstan. That is, the Kyrgyz farm structure itself, with its dominance of small farmers, is one of the main constraints for the effective functioning of...

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