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The Contribution of Non-Physical Resources and Strategic Household Decision-making to Environmental and Policy Risks

Mariam, Yohannes; Galaty, John; Coffin, Garth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993

institutions of producers in the grain surplus and deficit regions of the Central Highlands of Ethiopia are examined under … such as land are government owned and household decisions are shared by the state, local institutions or social networks … importantly by the potential of knowledge and institutions of producers to adjust to environmental changes, and support from …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616632

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837294

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619927

Agricultural Information and Indigenous Knowledge in Peasant Economy

Mariam, Yohannes; Galaty, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993

Agricultural information and indigenous knowledge were examined among peasants of the central Ethiopian highlands. Measures of central tendency, logical explanation, descriptive analysis, problem solving tests, scoring and logit analysis were performed. The findings indicate that information...

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Crop and Milk Production Structure of Smallholders in Ethiopia

Mariam, Yohannes; Coffin, Garth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993

Radical changes took place with respect to several agricultural policies in Ethiopia in 1990-91. Different agricultural technologies were being delivered by several international agencies. Shifts in government policies and technological intervention would induce changes in the production...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616579

Production Efficiency in Peasant Agriculture: An Application of LISREL Model

Mariam, Yohannes; Eisemon, Thomas; Coffin, Garth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993

production knowledge), consequences of access to resources or institutions (e.g., wealth), technologies adopted, physical factors …

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Production efficiency in Peasant Agriculture: The Case of Mixed Farming System in the Ethiopian Highlands

Mariam, Yohannes; Coffin, Garth; Eisemon, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993

An aggregate measure of production efficiency involving crop and livestock enterprises is examined in the Selale and Ada regions of Ethiopia using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). In general, farmers in regions more suitable to crop production (Ada) tend to attain higher production efficiency...

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Goals and Strategies of Peasants in the Central Highlands of Ethiopia

Mariam, Yohannes; Galaty, John; Coffin, Garth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993

Multidisciplinary research methods such as observatory, participatory and multivariate regression analysis were employed to examine goals and strategies of two peasant communities in the Central highlands of Ethiopia. Continuing the family tradition of participating in social networks is found...

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Femmes au pouvoir et Pouvoir des femmes : Qu’est-ce qui se passe en Afrique ?

Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This study attempts to understand whether women develop a political decision-making leads to better results on the indicators of the condition of women, mainly economic, political rights and laws against violence to women. It uses the African data from 2000 to 2010. The study is cross-sectional...

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Trends in Resource Extraction and Implications for Sustainability in Canada

Mariam, Yohannes - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999

There is a disagreement on the concept, definition and application of the paradigm of sustainable development. The definition that has been accepted by many involves several components, and it is difficult to measure or quantify indicators. Depending on the structure of the economy, it is...

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