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Smallholder marketed surplus and input use under transactions costs: maize supply and fertilizer demand in Kenya

Arega, D.A.; Manyong, Victor M.; Omanya, G.; Mignouna, H.D. - 2008

This paper assessed the effects of transactions costs—relative to price and non-price factors—on smallholder marketed surplus and input use in Kenya. A selectivity model was used that accounts not only for the effects of fixed and variable transactions costs but also for the role of assets,...

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The Impact of Access to Credit on the Adoption of hybrid maize in Malawi: An Empirical test of an Agricultural Household Model under credit market failure

Simtowe, F.; Zeller, Manfred - 2008

Guided by the frame work of a household model under credit market failure, this paper aims at investigating the impact of access to credit on the adoption of hybrid maize among households that vary in their credit constraints. The data used in the study is from Malawi collected by the...

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Non-Credit Services of Group-Based Financial Institutions: Implications for Smallholder Women’s Honey Income in Arid and Semi Arid Lands of Kenya

Otieno, Peter Shimon; Nyikal, Rose Adhiambo; Mugivane, … - 2008

This paper analyses the effect of non-credit services of joint liability credit institutions on smallholder women … are offered by the group-based financial institutions positively and significantly influence honey income. The results … and strengthening of group-based financial institutions’ non-credit services in the marginal areas will enhance …

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Long-run and Global R&D Funding Trajectories: The U.S. Farm Bill in a Changing Context

Pardey, Philip; Chan-Kang, Connie; Beddow, Jason M.; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

Domestically funded (and performed) research and development (R&D) has historically been a major source of productivity gains in U.S. agriculture, and a principal source of R&D spillovers to the rest of the world. In the waning decades of the 20th century, U.S. policymakers opted to ratchet down...

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An Assessment of Anaerobic Digestion in U.S. Agriculture

Thornton, Ted - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1978

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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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Determinants of Use and Intensity of Use of Mobile Phone-based Money Transfer Services in Smallholder Agriculture: Case of Kenya

Kirui, Oliver K.; Okello, Julius Juma; Nyikal, Rose Adhiambo - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

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Theme Overview: Transitions in Agriculture

Ferrell, Shannon L. - In: Choices 28 (2013) 2

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Improved Smallholder Dairy Farming in Uganda through Technological Change

Mbowa, Swaibu; Shinyekwa, Isaac; Lwanga, Musa - Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) - 2012

The dairy sector in Uganda has been transformed into a more competitive and dynamic sector. Supply-side factors have enabled expansion in milk production. Between 2005 and 2009 –milk production (estimated at 1.5 billion litres in 2010) has been partly an outcome of a 20 percent increase in the...

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