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Look who's talking: the impacts of the intrahousehold allocation of mobile phones on agricultural prices

Lee, Kyeong Ho; Bellemare, Marc F. - 2012

Using data from the Philippines, we study the impact of mobile phones on the prices agricultural producers receive for their cash crop. We first look at the impact on price of mobile phone ownership at the household level. Because this masks a considerable amount of heterogeneity, we then look...

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Whose incentives? The evolution of inheritance practices, intergenerational conflict, and women’s control over land in rural Kenya

Linkow, Benjamin - 2010

Land related investment decisions are shaped by both the formal and informal institutions governing land tenure and acquisition. In the case of agricultural Kikuyu households in Kenya, we show that the inheritance practice of uncertain allocation in conjunction with the principle of equal...

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The Welfare Impacts of Commodity Price Fluctuations: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

Bellemare, Marc F.; Barrett, Christopher B.; Just, David R. - 2010

Many governments try to stabilize commodity prices based on the widespread belief that households value price stability and that the poor especially benefit from food price stabilization. We derive an exact measure of multivariate price risk aversion and of associated household willingness to...

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Crop and Milk Production Structure of Smallholders in Ethiopia

Mariam, Yohannes; Coffin, Garth - 1993

most farm inputs is greater when farmers adopt fertilizer and pesticides (Ada) or fertilizer and cross-bred cows (Selale …

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Agricultural Information and Indigenous Knowledge in Peasant Economy

Mariam, Yohannes; Galaty, John - 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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The Contribution of Non-Physical Resources and Strategic Household Decision-making to Environmental and Policy Risks

Mariam, Yohannes; Galaty, John; Coffin, Garth - 1993

Physical resources such as land, labour and livestock, and nonphysical resources such as indigenous knowledge and institutions of producers in the grain surplus and deficit regions of the Central Highlands of Ethiopia are examined under situation of environmental and policy risks. Frequency...

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Strategic Decision-Making: Adoption of Agricultural Technologies and Risk in a Peasant Economy

Mariam, Yohannes; Galaty, John; Coffin, Garth - 1993

proven to have a more certain outcome (e.g., fertilizer and pesticides) than on technologies which are either expensive or … inputs and knowledge exert large and significant positive impacts on production when farmers adopt combinations of fertilizer … and pesticides (Ada), or fertilizer and cross-bred cows (Selale). …

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Production Efficiency and Agricultural Technologies in the Ethiopian Agriculture

Mariam, Yohannes; Coffin, Garth - 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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Small farmers, NGOs, and a Walmart World: Welfare effects of supermarkets operating in Nicaragua

Michelson, Hope C. - 2012

Despite more than a decade of NGO and government activities promoting developing world farmer participation in high-value agricultural markets, evidence regarding the household welfare effects of such initiatives is limited. This paper analyzes the geographic placement of supermarket supply...

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Yield Gap and its Determinants in Pulse Crops of Bihar-Facts from plot level data of Cost of Cultivation Scheme

Kumari, Priyanka; Ahmad, Nasim; Singh, K.M. - 2019

In order to assess the yield gap in major pulse crops and factors causing yield gap in Bihar, plot level data of Cost of Cultivation Scheme, Govt. of India were used for the year 2015-16.Simple regression model was applied to identify the factors. Results of the study pointed out that yield...

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