Geography of plant breeding systems, agroclimatic similarity, and agricultural productivity: evidence from Nigeria

Entrepreneurship Financing and Nation Building in Nigeria: Evidence from Agricultural Small and Medium Scale Enterprises

An attempt has been made in this study to examine the relationship between entrepreneurship financing from the perspective of agricultural small and medium scale enterprises and nation building in Nigeria from 1990 to 2017. Data were collected from the Central Bank of Nigeria Statistical Bulletin with the application of Autoregressive Distributed Lagged and Bounds test to address the objective ...

Seasonal liquidity constraints and agricultural productivity: Evidence from Zambia

Small-scale farming remains the primary source of income for a majority of the population in developing countries. In rainfed agricultural settings, income typically arrives only once a year. To meet consumption and investment needs over the subsequent months in the absence of formal financial markets, households adopt a range of coping strategies. Two common strategies are reducing food consum...

Agricultural productivity and mortality: evidence from Kagera, Tanzania

We ask whether prime-age adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS decreases the endowment of knowledge for agricultural production in Kagera, Tanzania, reducing total factor productivity. We also quantify how much this negative effect contributes to the decrease in long-term household agricultural income growth compared to the contribution of decreased accumulation of productive assets; household member...

The impact of Irrigation on Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from India

Understanding Gender Differences in Agricultural Productivity in Uganda and Nigeria

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