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Household Food Demand in Burkina Faso: Implications for Food Policy
Savadogo, Kimseyinga; Brandt, Jon A. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 02 (1988) 4
households whereas high-income households would consume relatively more wheat and rice. The household model is then used to …
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Economic factors affecting human fertility in the developing areas of Southern Africa
Fairlamb, Cheryl D.; Nieuwoudt, Wilhelmus L. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 06 (1991) 2
households in South Africa. Regression analysis was used to estimate the demand function and principal components analysis …
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Separability in farm-household economics: an experiment with linear programming
Delforce, Julie C. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 10 (1994) 2
The assumption of separability between farm-household production and consumption facilitates analysis, but entails several important restrictions. The implications of assuming separability are discussed here in relation to the modelling of a representative Tongan farm-household. Econometric...
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Temporal and spatial modelling of tropical deforestation: a survival analysis linking satellite and household survey data
Vance, Colin; Geoghegan, Jacqueline - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 27 (2002) 3
households whose agricultural plots were geo-referenced using a global positioning system (GPS). We implement a survival analysis …
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Effect of modern rice varieties and irrigation on household income distribution in Nepalese villages
Thapa, Ganesh; Otsuka, Keijiro; Barker, Randolph - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 07 (1992) 3-4
Since high-yielding modern rice varieties (MVs) are adopted only in favorable production environments, significant regional productivity differentials have emerged in Nepal. This study explores the distributional consequences of such differential MV adoption based on an intensive survey of...
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Effects of household size and composition on consumption in rural households in Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe
Young, Trevor; Hamdok, Abdalla A. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 11 (1994) 2-3
This study, using a survey of rural households in Zimbabwe in 1990 j91, focuses on the effects of changing household … highlights significant differences across product groups. These effects are more muted in larger households. …
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Compensated optimal response under uncertainty in agricultural household models
Saha, Atanu - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 11 (1994) 2-3
This study derives the qualitative properties of a household's optimal consumption, family labour, hired labour and non-labour input choices under price andjor output risk through a Slutsky-type compensation without imposing any restriction on risk preference structure or production technology....
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Analysis of household attitudes toward the purchase of livestock products and fish in Cameroon
Tambi, N. Emmanuel - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 26 (2001) 2
often substituted for beef and chicken by households whose profiles include being of low income levels, having large … complementary to beef. The profiles of households likely to purchase beef include being married, middle age, educated and of the … Muslim faith. Profiles for households most likely to increase their purchases of chicken include being of high income levels …
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Capturing household-level spatial influence in agricultural management using random effects regression
Swinton, Scott M. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 27 (2002) 3
Data on agricultural and natural resource management typically have spatial patterns related to the landscapes from which they came. Consequently, econometric models designed to explain the determinants of humans' natural resource management practices or their outcomes often have spatial...
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Seasonal labor constraints and intra-household dynamics in the female fields of southern Cameroon
Elad, Renata L.; Houston, Jack E. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 27 (2002) 1
African agricultural production is modeled as a sequential decision process, with men's labor first allotted to clearing, then women's labor allotted to harvesting. A switching regression is then used to measure the constraints due to clearing labor capacity and harvesting labor capacity. The...
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