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▼a (MiAaPQ)AAI10748132 |
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▼a (MiAaPQ)purdue:22349 |
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▼a Omotilewa, Oluwatoba J. |
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▼a The Adoption and Impacts of Improved Storage Technology Among Smallholder Farm Households in Uganda. |
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▼a [S.l.] :
▼b Purdue University.,
▼c 2017 |
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▼a Ann Arbor :
▼b ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,
▼c 2017 |
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▼a 185 p. |
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▼a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: A. |
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▼a Adviser: Jacob Ricker-Gilbert. |
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▼a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Purdue University, 2017. |
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▼a This dissertation comprises of three essays that address the adoption and impacts of grain hermetic (airtight) storage bags to reduce on-farm grain storage losses in Uganda. To understand adoption of the technology and its impacts, I conducted t |
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▼a In essay 1, I focus on the role of information through large-scale extension efforts in the awareness and adoption of an improved storage technology---hermetic (airtight) storage bags---at the early stage in the diffusion process. Using a cluste |
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▼a In essay 2, I used household-level RCT to estimate if access to an improved storage technology affects smallholder households' use of modern inputs such as higher-yielding maize varieties and inorganic fertilizer. I further examined if access to |
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▼a In essay3, I estimate the effects of a one-time subsidy in the form of free hermetic bags on commercial market participation for the bags among smallholders. I further estimate spillover effects of this one-time subsidy on market participation o |
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▼a School code: 0183. |
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▼a Agricultural economics. |
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▼a Purdue University.
▼b Agricultural Economics. |
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▼t Dissertation Abstracts International
▼g 79-10A(E). |
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▼t Dissertation Abstract International |
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▼a 0183 |
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▼a Ph.D. |
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▼a 2017 |
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▼a English |
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▼u http://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T14996966
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▼a 201812
▼f 2019 |
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