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How does land fragmentation affect off-farm labor supply: panel data evidence from China (2014)
Journal Article
Jia, L., & Petrick, M. (2014). How does land fragmentation affect off-farm labor supply: panel data evidence from China. Agricultural Economics: the journal of the International Association of Agricultural Economists, 45(3), 369-380. https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12071

This article provides a deeper theoretical understanding of the linkages between land fragmentation and off-farm labor supply in China, and investigates this relationship empirically in a more direct way than does the existing literature. Drawing upo... Read More about How does land fragmentation affect off-farm labor supply: panel data evidence from China.

Transaction Costs, Information Technologies, and the Choice of Marketplace among Farmers in Northern Ghana (2014)
Journal Article
Zanello, G., Srinivasan, C. S., & Shankar, B. (2014). Transaction Costs, Information Technologies, and the Choice of Marketplace among Farmers in Northern Ghana. The Journal of Development Studies, 50(9), 1226-1239. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2014.903244

Using a transactions costs framework, we examine the impact of information and communication technologies (mobile phones and radios) use on market participation in developing country agricultural markets using a novel transaction-level data set of Gh... Read More about Transaction Costs, Information Technologies, and the Choice of Marketplace among Farmers in Northern Ghana.

How to do (and how not to do) fieldwork on Fair Trade and rural poverty (2014)
Journal Article
Cramer, C., Johnston, D., Mueller, B., Oya, C., & Sender, J. (2014). How to do (and how not to do) fieldwork on Fair Trade and rural poverty. Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 35(1), 170-185. https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2014.873022

The Fair Trade, Employment and Poverty Reduction (FTEPR) project investigated poverty dynamics in rural Ethiopia and Uganda. When designing fieldwork to capture poor people often missing from standard surveys, several methodological challenges were i... Read More about How to do (and how not to do) fieldwork on Fair Trade and rural poverty.

Testing Claims about Large Land Deals in Africa: Findings from a Multi-Country Study (2014)
Journal Article
Cotula, L., Oya, C., Codjoe, E. A., Eid, A., Kakraba-Ampeh, M., Keeley, J., Lokaley Kidewa, A., Makwarimba, M., Michago Seide, W., Ole Nasha, W., Owusu Asare, R., & Rizzo, M. (2014). Testing Claims about Large Land Deals in Africa: Findings from a Multi-Country Study. The Journal of Development Studies, 50(7), 903-925. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2014.901501

Despite much research on large land deals for plantation agriculture in Africa, reliable data remain elusive, partly because of limited access to information and practical and methodological challenges. International debates are still shaped by mispe... Read More about Testing Claims about Large Land Deals in Africa: Findings from a Multi-Country Study.

Dynamic, small-world social network generation through local agent interactions (2014)
Journal Article
De Caux, R., Smith, C., Kniveton, D., Black, R., & Philippides, A. (2014). Dynamic, small-world social network generation through local agent interactions. Complexity, 19(6), 44-53. https://doi.org/10.1002/cplx.21528

To model agent relationships in agent‐based models, it is often necessary to incorporate a social network whose topology is commonly assumed to be “small‐world.” This is potentially problematic, as the classification is broad and covers a wide‐range... Read More about Dynamic, small-world social network generation through local agent interactions.