If It Pays, It Stays : Can Agribusiness Internalize the Benefits of Malaria Control?
Might a malaria control intervention entail agricultural effects that allow a commercial agribusiness to offset its costs? The randomized allocation of 39,936 insecticide-treated mosquito nets among 81,597 smallholder cotton farming households in 1...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/07/26597184/pays-stays-can-agribusiness-internalize-benefits-malaria-control http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24843 |
| Summary: | Might a malaria control intervention
entail agricultural effects that allow a commercial
agribusiness to offset its costs? The randomized allocation
of 39,936 insecticide-treated mosquito nets among 81,597
smallholder cotton farming households in 1,507 clusters
helps evaluate this in the context of Zambia's cotton
outgrowing industry. But despite large health impacts on
treated households, no impact on cotton deliveries to the
agribusiness is detected. With some caveats, the results
tend to strike a discord with recent evidence on the
agricultural productivity effects of malaria control. |
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