Vegetable plays important roles in the socio-economic development in West Africa. It contributes to insuring food security, provides raw materials for local industries, generates foreign exchange and provides employment and incomes for most of the population. However some health hazards are...

In order to diversify the sources of incomes of the country, to reduce the financial risks and toimprove the farmers’ revenues, the government of Benin decided to promote new agriculturalsectors. One of those new sub-sectors is shea tree which is targeted in this study. Due to thepainful of...

Household characteristics are commonly used to explain variation in smallholderefficiency levels. The underlying assumption is that differences in intended behaviorare well described by such variables, while there is no a priori reason that this is thecase. Moreover, heterogeneity in farmer...