Boosting Climate-Smart Smallholder Farm Strategies and Household Outcomes through Joint Decision- Making by Men and Women in Agrarian Households in Arid Namibia

Submitted by Petra Hansson on
EfD Authors:
Tibesigwa, Byela
Bezabih, Mintewab Ayele
Visser, Martine

In this uncertain era of climate change, any strategy that can increase farm yield in resource-poor, rain-fed, agriculture-dependent regions, like sub-Saharan Africa, should be explored. Our study takes place in Namibia, a typical sub-Saharan African country exhibiting dry and vulnerable characteristics. Our estimation strategy is robust to selection bias caused by unobserved systematic differences and further validated by robustness tests to estimate the impact of joint decision-making on farm productivity and household outcomes.

EfD Discussion Paper
Agriculture, Climate Change, Gender

Effect of Trade Openness on Ecological Footprint in Sub-Saharan Africa

Submitted by Salvatory Macha on
EfD Authors:
Lokina, Razack
Ruhinduka, Remidius

This study explores the effect of international trade measured by trade openness and foreign direct investment flows on environmental quality measured by ecological footprint in 23 Sub-Saharan African countries.

Peer Reviewed
Policy Design

The Effects of Household Shocks on Child Nutrition Status in Tanzania

Submitted by Salvatory Macha on
EfD Authors:
Chegere, Martin J.
Lokina, Razack

The main objective of this paper is to examine the effects of household shocks on thenutrition status of children between 0–59 months in Tanzania. The study employed the national panel survey data of Tanzania collected in three waves: 2008/09, 2010/11, and 2012/13. The study used the panel random-effects probit model to estimate the effects of household shocks on child nutrition status, measured by binary variables: stunting, wasting, and underweight. Findings indicated that weather shocks increase the probability of a child being stunted and underweight.

Peer Reviewed
Agriculture

Does Scarcity Reduce Cooperation? Experimental Evidence from Rural Tanzania

Submitted by Salvatory Macha on
EfD Authors:
Selejio, Onesmo

Cooperation is essential to reap efficiency gains from specialization, not least in poor communities where economic transactions often are informal. Yet, cooperation might be more difficult to sustain under scarcity, since defecting from a cooperative equilibrium can yield safe, short-run benefits. In this study, we investigate how scarcity affects cooperation by leveraging exogenous variation in economic conditions induced by the Msimu harvest in rural Tanzania.

Discussion Paper
Agriculture, Policy Design
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