to feed itself, but to produce a surplus for export. During the periods covered in this paper, its agricultural growth … on Malawi's recent performance, with particular attention on trends in the provision of essential agro-support services …: credit; extension and farmer training; and input supply and marketing. Trends in these services are examined first at the …

significantly condition technology adoption decisions. Earlier adoption studies have not considered this in the analysis of the … mangrove swamp rice farmers in Sierra Leone. The issue investigated is the adoption of improved mangrove swamp rice varieties … major factors determining adoption and use intensities. Indicators of adoption determinants traditionally used in adoption …

Rapid institutional innovation in the 1980's has led to problems that exceed the scope of research normally assumed by … reviews research on the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (Farmer Mac) and examines its role in the policy debate. …

in research would be socially desirable. But these estimates may be incorrect if, as is often the case, market prices are … multiple distortions in the market prices of products, inputs and foreign exchange. The method also takes account of variation … in domestic and world prices, making a product tradable in some years and nontradable in others. The method is applied to …

A shadow-price profit frontier model is developed to examine production efficiency of Chinese rural households in …'s Rural Household Survey for 1991 reject the neoclassical profit maximization hypothesis based on market prices in favor of … restrictions, thus alter their performance in terms of efficiency. The estimated efficiency index ranges from 6% to 93% with a …

In this paper I improve Gardner's surplus transformation curve framework by assuming that governments are able to vary …

Leathers (1991) shows that while the existence of allocable fixed inputs can cause joint production (as in Shumway … joint production in agriculture is an empirical question. This paper offers an empirical answer. By estimating a short …-run joint cost function, it is possible to identify levels of outputs for which joint production may be optimal in the short run …

A fairly comprehensive range of planting choices made by maize farmers in Kenya (including discrete endogenous … further supported the importance of focusing maize research in terms of agroclimate and socio-economic domains. Shorter … use in areas of high population pressure and bimodal rainfall, i.e. mid-altitude zones. On the other hand, technologies …