Agricultural technologies (new cultivars, inorganic fertilizers, soil- and water-conservation techniques) in Sub … decisions and division of income are made within the family in Sub-Saharan Africa. We use a programming model to estimate the … agricultural technologies depends on the type of decision-making prevailing in the household. In contrast, household technologies …

This paper investigates the factors responsible for a drastic decline in the growth rate of labor productivity of the …

perceptions of the product's attributes. However, the role of farmers' preferences in adoption decisions have received very … limited attention in adoption studies conducted by economists. This paper tests the hypothesis that farmers' perceptions of … sorghum and rice varietal technologies in Burkina Paso and Guinea, respectively, strongly supports this hypothesis. Our …

smallholder farms from two sites in Kenya. Four alternative strategies of immunization in combination with different levels of … farm incomes, cash expenses, and net farm incomes. The results from the analysis indicate that ECF immunization strategies … most preferred strategy was to adopt ITM in combination with a 75% reduction in acaricide use. The results obtained provide …

round of agricultural trade negotiations scheduled to begin in 1999 it is crucial that the quantitative work required to … support these negotiations begin in the near future. The authors conclude that the Uruguay Round outcome provides numerous … challenges and opportunities in analyzing the traditional agenda of agricultural trade liberalization. In addition, new issues …

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 …

orthogonally-derived plant trait combinations used in an illustrative example. Utilities were estimated using the choice …

This paper examines sources of agricultural growth in sub-Saharan Africa. Growth in the stock of traditional inputs … (land, labor, livestock) remains the dominant source of output growth. Growth in modern input use was of secondary … importance, but still accounted for a 0.2-0.4% annual growth rate in three of four sub-regions. Econometric results support …

The cultivation of wheat in Saudi Arabia has been claimed to be resource depletable. Huge amounts of high quality … on an educational farm with a soil type representative of the agricultural soil in Saudi Arabia, yielded some interesting … assessed the efficient levels of seeds, water, and nitrogen fertilizers in wheat cultivation when production risk was …