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

40 Pages Posted: 26 Jul 2016

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Richard Sedlmayr

University of Oxford, Blavatnik School of Government, Students

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Date Written: July 25, 2016

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Malaria, Inequality

Suggested Citation

Sedlmayr, Richard, If it Pays, it Stays: Can Agribusiness Internalize the Benefits of Malaria Control? (July 25, 2016). World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7762, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2814396

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