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Decentralization and Access to Agricultural Extension Services in Kenya

Nambiro, Elizabeth; Omiti, John M.; Mugunieri, Godiah … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

services. This improved knowledge, being an important component of empowerment of the farming community, resulted from the …

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Linkages among Estimated Technological Parameters, Production, Supply and Input Demand Elasticities for Agricultural Production Functions

Pagoulatos, Angelos; Debertin, David L. - Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Kentucky - 2015

The March, 2015 pdf version is recently-edited from a paper written in the late 1980s. A scanned copy of the paper as written in the late 1980s is also available for download. Students who wish to use their math skills to verify each equation and elasticity calculation may wish to download both...

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Advanced Agricultural Production Economics

Debertin, David L. - Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Kentucky - 1978

I taught AEC 620, Advanced Production Economics, every year between 1974, when I arrived as an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky, to 2012, when I retired. The following publication is one of the early sets of class notes I used in the course, dating from 1978 set up as an early...

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High-Resolution Computer Graphics: A Research and Educational Tool in Production Economics

Debertin, David L.; Bradford, Garnett L. - Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Kentucky - 1988

This paper investigates some applications of high-resolution, three dimensional PC-based computer graphics to research and education in agricultural production economics. Examples illustrate issues in the identification of stages of production for the multifactor case; special cases in which...

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TRAINING FOR FARM MANAGEMENT DECISIONMAKING

Longsworth, John; Menz, Kenneth - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 1977

The objectiye of this paper is to discuss a farm management training course designed to develop allocative ability. The paper consists of three sections. The first section briefly emphasizes the importance of allocative ability in relation to farm management decisionmaking. The second section...

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Stoevener, Herbert H. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2000

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Analysis of Climate Change Perception and Adaptation among Arable Food Crop Farmers in South Western Nigeria.

Apata, Temidayo Gabriel; Samuel, K.D.; Adeola, A.O. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

This study acknowledges the comments of Dr(Mrs) Olasimbo Apata and Dr. M.A.Y. Rahji. financial assistance of JABU Management is also acknowledge.

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Determinants for Adoption of ICT-based MIS by Smallholder Farmers and Traders in Mayuge District, Uganda

Sekabira, Haruna; Bonabana, Jackline; Asingwire, Narathius - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

of both entities. Closing such knowledge gaps is justified. The study assessed adoption of ICT-based MIS by smallholder … of respondents had knowledge of existence of ICT groups but only 22% had membership despite 80% agreeing that ICTs … farmers with knowledge of existence of ICT groups and those who thought that ICTs benefited agriculture were more likely …

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Facilitating access to rural services in Vietnam: The invisible social capital link

Hoang Dinh, Quoc; Dufhues, Thomas; Buchenrieder, Gertrud - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

This paper investigates the effects of network based individual social capital on the access of rural households to services. In the context of development economics, an innovative data collection approach is used to determine network based social capital. The approach originates from the field...

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Managerial Approaches in Academic Departments: Options for Agricultural Economics

Bradford, Garnett L.; Debertin, David L. - Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Kentucky - 1991

The aim of this essay is to identify organizational and managerial paradigms within the management literature, and then adapt and apply them to an academic department, using, as the case example, a department of agricultural economics. Despite the paucity of literature dealing specifically with...

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