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Crop and Milk Production Structure of Smallholders in Ethiopia

Mariam, Yohannes; Coffin, Garth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993

Radical changes took place with respect to several agricultural policies in Ethiopia in 1990-91. Different agricultural technologies were being delivered by several international agencies. Shifts in government policies and technological intervention would induce changes in the production...

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The Contribution of Non-Physical Resources and Strategic Household Decision-making to Environmental and Policy Risks

Mariam, Yohannes; Galaty, John; Coffin, Garth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993

Physical resources such as land, labour and livestock, and nonphysical resources such as indigenous knowledge and institutions of producers in the grain surplus and deficit regions of the Central Highlands of Ethiopia are examined under situation of environmental and policy risks. Frequency...

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Agricultural Information and Indigenous Knowledge in Peasant Economy

Mariam, Yohannes; Galaty, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993

Agricultural information and indigenous knowledge were examined among peasants of the central Ethiopian highlands. Measures of central tendency, logical explanation, descriptive analysis, problem solving tests, scoring and logit analysis were performed. The findings indicate that information...

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Goals and Strategies of Peasants in the Central Highlands of Ethiopia

Mariam, Yohannes; Galaty, John; Coffin, Garth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993

Multidisciplinary research methods such as observatory, participatory and multivariate regression analysis were employed to examine goals and strategies of two peasant communities in the Central highlands of Ethiopia. Continuing the family tradition of participating in social networks is found...

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Production efficiency in Peasant Agriculture: The Case of Mixed Farming System in the Ethiopian Highlands

Mariam, Yohannes; Coffin, Garth; Eisemon, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993

An aggregate measure of production efficiency involving crop and livestock enterprises is examined in the Selale and Ada regions of Ethiopia using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). In general, farmers in regions more suitable to crop production (Ada) tend to attain higher production efficiency...

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Analysis of Trends in Emission of Criteria Air Pollutants and Human Health in an Era of Regulation

Mariam, Yohannes - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001

Several studies have shown the environmental and health impacts of emission of criteria air pollutants such as SO2, NOx … health affected by these pollutants over the past two decades. Furthermore, the study will implement a method called linear … and the human health. Finally, the study will determine whether or not the changes observed over the past two decades with …

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