If It Pays, It Stays : Can Agribusiness Internalize the Benefits of Malaria Control?

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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Main Author: Sedlmayr, Richard
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
Subjects:
bed net adoption
contract farming
insecticide-treated nets
malaria
public-private partnerships
cotton industry
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
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spelling okr-10986-248432021-04-23T14:04:27Z If It Pays, It Stays : Can Agribusiness Internalize the Benefits of Malaria Control? Sedlmayr, Richard bed net adoption contract farming insecticide-treated nets malaria public-private partnerships cotton industry 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. 2016-08-09T19:49:11Z 2016-08-09T19:49:11Z 2016-07 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/07/26597184/pays-stays-can-agribusiness-internalize-benefits-malaria-control http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24843 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7762 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Zambia
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topic bed net adoption
contract farming
insecticide-treated nets
malaria
public-private partnerships
cotton industry
spellingShingle bed net adoption
contract farming
insecticide-treated nets
malaria
public-private partnerships
cotton industry
Sedlmayr, Richard
If It Pays, It Stays : Can Agribusiness Internalize the Benefits of Malaria Control?
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relation Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7762
description 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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author Sedlmayr, Richard
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title If It Pays, It Stays : Can Agribusiness Internalize the Benefits of Malaria Control?
title_short If It Pays, It Stays : Can Agribusiness Internalize the Benefits of Malaria Control?
title_full If It Pays, It Stays : Can Agribusiness Internalize the Benefits of Malaria Control?
title_fullStr If It Pays, It Stays : Can Agribusiness Internalize the Benefits of Malaria Control?
title_full_unstemmed If It Pays, It Stays : Can Agribusiness Internalize the Benefits of Malaria Control?
title_sort if it pays, it stays : can agribusiness internalize the benefits of malaria control?
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2016
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/07/26597184/pays-stays-can-agribusiness-internalize-benefits-malaria-control
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