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Food Standards, Certification, and Poverty among Coffee Farmers in Uganda

Chiputwa, Brian; Qaim, Matin; Spielman, David J. - 2013

Private standards are gaining in importance in global markets for high-value foods. We analyze and compare impacts of three sustainability oriented standards – Fairtrade, Organic, and UTZ – on the livelihoods of smallholder coffee farmers in Uganda. Using survey data and propensity score...

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Private service provision contributes to widespread innovation adoption among smallholder farmers: Laser land levelling technology in northwestern India

Padmaja, Subash Surendran; Parlasca, Martin Christoph; … - 2024

This study investigates key institutional factors promoting the adoption of laser land levelling (LLL), a technology … India were collected and used to analyse farmers' LLL technology perceptions and adoption decisions. Regression models were … developed to estimate the role of local service provision for LLL adoption while controlling for farm, household, and other …

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Determinants of specialty rice adoption by smallholder farmers in the Red River Delta of Vietnam

Theuvsen, Ludwig - 2017

This study addresses factors influencing the adoption of specialty rice variety among smallholder farmers in Vietnam … follow the adoption behavior model based on the utility maximization criterion and adopt a two-step approach, starting with a … Probit model for determinants of specialty rice adoption before analyzing the intensity of adoption using a Tobit model …

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Asymptotics and Consistent Bootstraps for DEA Estimators in Non-parametric Frontier Models

Kneip, Alois; Simar, Léopold; Wilson, Paul W. - 2006

in analyses of productive efficiency. The distributions of these estimators remain unknown except in the simple case of … well as smoothing of the DEA frontier estimate. Both bootstrap procedures allow for dependence of the inefficiency process …

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Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development : Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?

Sabirianova, Klara Z.; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2005

privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … efficiency frontier is much larger than that of the Czech firms and continued to grow for most firms beyond 1997 while remaining …Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in …

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Measuring Productivity and Efficiency of Seaports in India using DEA technique

Monteiro, Jeronimo Guilherme Remigio - In: The Central European Review of Economics and Management … 2 (2018) 3, pp. 155-174

levels of productivity and efficiency of seaports in India. This paper applies DEA technique to assess productivity and … efficiency of seaports in India. Design/Research methods: DEA technique is extensively used in the literature of economics to … provide measures of firms' technical efficiency. These measures rank the firms by looking at their apparent performances over …

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Yield Effects of Tissue Culture Bananas in Kenya: Accounting for Selection Bias and the Role of Complementary Inputs

Kabunga, Nassul S.; Dubois, Thomas; Qaim, Matin - 2011

We analyze yield effects of tissue culture (TC) banana technology in the Kenyan small farm sector, using recent survey data and an endogenous switching regression approach. TC banana plantlets, which are free from pests and diseases, have been introduced in East Africa since the late-1990s....

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Yield Effects of Tissue Culture Bananas in Kenya: Accounting for Selection Bias and the Role of Complementary Inputs

Kabunga, Nassul S.; Dubois, Thomas; Qaim, Matin - 2011

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Farmer heterogeneity and differential livelihood impacts of oil palm expansion among smallholders in Sumatra, Indonesia

Krishna, Vijesh V.; Euler, Michael; Siregar, Hermanto; … - 2015

case of comparative advantage. Differential consumption impacts of observed variables are evident across adoption and non-adoption … palm adoption. …

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Welfare impact of improved maize varieties adoption among smallholder farmers in Amuru district of Horo Guduru Wollega, Ethiopia

Merga, Gemechis; Sileshi, Million; Zeleke, Fresenbet - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 11 (2023) 1, pp. 1-17

to assess the impact of adopting improved maize varieties on productivity and food insecurity in Amuru district of Horo … sample households. The probit model's findings indicate that factors that positively influenced households' adoption of the … that negatively influenced adoption included family size and market distance. The endogenous treatment effect model …

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