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Production Efficiency and Agricultural Technologies in the Ethiopian Agriculture
Mariam, Yohannes; Coffin, Garth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993
Stochastic frontier production function analysis was performed to examine relative crop and milk production efficiency among peasants in Ada and Selale districts of the Central highlands of Ethiopia. The results indicate that Ada farmers exhibit relatively higher efficiency scores in cereal...
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Rediscovering the Virgin Lands : agricultural investment and rural livelihoods in a Eurasian frontier area
Petrick, Martin; Wandel, Jürgen; Karsten, Katharina - 2012
Against the global debate on socially responsible agro-investment, we explore the conditions, patterns, and impacts of recent agricultural recovery in Kazakhstan's northern grain provinces. Vertically and horizontally integrated agroholdings brought outside investment and management to this...
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Report on the socio-economic impact of Natural Rubber cultivation under the block planting scheme in Tripura
Joseph, Joby; George K., Tharian; S.K, Dey - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The study is a pioneering attempt to assess the socio-economic impact of the Block Planting Scheme (BPS) from the angle of the beneficiaries,implementing agencies and the policymakers.The report is based on the primary information gathered from 480 households drawn from Block Planting Units with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108243
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Production Efficiency in Peasant Agriculture: An Application of LISREL Model
Mariam, Yohannes; Eisemon, Thomas; Coffin, Garth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993
The study examined a simplified conceptual model which incorporates variables that influence the processes and consequences of household decision-making in the Ada and Selale districts of the Ethiopian highlands. Linear structural relations (LISREL) analysis was performed on three conceptual...
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Agricultural Production performance on Small farm holdings: Some Empirical Evidences from Bihar, India
Singh, R.K.P.; Kumar, Abhay; Singh, K.M.; Kumar, Anjani - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
in Bihar, India. Plot wise panel data of VDSA project are used to reach at precise conclusion. The results provide … comparatively larger land holders than small land holders in Bihar, India. It is mainly due to more uneconomic land holdings of sub … bottlenecks for the growth of agriculture in Bihar, India. The crop productivity of tiny landholders can be increased through …
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Strategic Decision-Making: Adoption of Agricultural Technologies and Risk in a Peasant Economy
Mariam, Yohannes; Galaty, John; Coffin, Garth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993
Descriptive and logit analysis were employed to investigate the impact of social, economic and technical factors on decisions to adopt new agricultural technologies in the Ada and Selale districts of Ethiopia. Peasants follow sequential adoption of technologies. In both study areas, priority is...
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Chapter 67 Rural Poverty and Income Dynamics in Southeast Asia
Estudillo, Jonna P.; Otsuka, Keijiro - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 4, (pp. 3435-3468). 2010
Many rural households in Asia have been able to move out of poverty in the presence of increasing scarcity of farmland, initially by increasing rice income through the adoption of modern rice technology and gradually diversifying their income sources away from farm to nonfarm activities....
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Agriculture and Rural Development : Lessons for Christian Groups Combating Persistent Poverty
Barrett, Christopher B.; Brown, Douglas R. - 2013
Persistent poverty is one of the core challenges faced by Christians and by development scholars and practitioners alike. There is no question that Jesus was concerned about the poor - both materially and spiritually. From his first public address in the Synagogue in Nazareth, His home town,...
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Investment in Land, Tenure Security and Area Farmed in Northern Mozambique
Brück, Tilman - Households in Conflict Network - 2003
The analysis of land investment and tenure security usually assumes land scarcity. However, some developing countries have communities with land abundance. This article therefore examines the effects of land abundance for investment and tenure security. The paper develops a formal test of land...
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The New and Changing Roles of Cold Storages in the Potato Supply Chain in Bihar
Minten, Bart; Reardon, Thomas; Singh, K.M.; Sutradhar, Rajib - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
There have been dramatic increases and rapid up-scaling of modern cold storages in Bihar, one of the poorest states in …
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