The curious case of C-88: impacts of a potato variety on farmers in Yunnan, China by Stephanie Myrick, Willy Pradel, Canhui Li, Victor Suarez, Guy Hareau, Catherine Larochelle, George W. Norton, Jeffrey Alwang

“…Market-level information was used in an economic surplus model to quantify the substantial economic impact of C88 over 20 years since its release. …”
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The role of CGIAR Germplasm Health Units in averting endemic crop diseases: the example of rice blast in Bangladesh by Yuji Enriquez, Melinda Smale, Nelissa Jamora, Mohammod Hossain, Lava Kumar

“…We applied an ex ante economic surplus framework to the case of rice blast in Bangladesh, considering productivity maintenance and time saving factors from GHU facilitation. …”
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L’exploitation financière des secteurs populaires argentins by Pablo Ignacio Chena, Alexandre Roig

“…This phenomenon differs from the traditional processes of financialization because it is not reflected in the household over-indebtedness, but in the use of the interest rate levels (absolute and relative) as the main mechanism to transfer the economic surpluses and to create a social hierarchy.Without trying to reduce the popular economy to pre-existing categories, this work describes this category how it’s claimed by the workers themselves: the way in which they identify their economic practices, how they build their social mobilization and by their representation form. …”
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