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Look who's talking: the impacts of the intrahousehold allocation of mobile phones on agricultural prices
Lee, Kyeong Ho; Bellemare, Marc F. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Using data from the Philippines, we study the impact of mobile phones on the prices agricultural producers receive for their cash crop. We first look at the impact on price of mobile phone ownership at the household level. Because this masks a considerable amount of heterogeneity, we then look...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110475
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Whose incentives? The evolution of inheritance practices, intergenerational conflict, and women’s control over land in rural Kenya
Linkow, Benjamin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Land related investment decisions are shaped by both the formal and informal institutions governing land tenure and acquisition. In the case of agricultural Kikuyu households in Kenya, we show that the inheritance practice of uncertain allocation in conjunction with the principle of equal...
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The Welfare Impacts of Commodity Price Fluctuations: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
Bellemare, Marc F.; Barrett, Christopher B.; Just, David R. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Many governments try to stabilize commodity prices based on the widespread belief that households value price stability and that the poor especially benefit from food price stabilization. We derive an exact measure of multivariate price risk aversion and of associated household willingness to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560126
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Crop and Milk Production Structure of Smallholders in Ethiopia
Mariam, Yohannes; Coffin, Garth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993
most farm inputs is greater when farmers adopt fertilizer and pesticides (Ada) or fertilizer and cross-bred cows (Selale …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616579
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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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Production Efficiency and Agricultural Technologies in the Ethiopian Agriculture
Mariam, Yohannes; Coffin, Garth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993
Stochastic frontier production function analysis was performed to examine relative crop and milk production efficiency among peasants in Ada and Selale districts of the Central highlands of Ethiopia. The results indicate that Ada farmers exhibit relatively higher efficiency scores in cereal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837294
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Strategic Decision-Making: Adoption of Agricultural Technologies and Risk in a Peasant Economy
Mariam, Yohannes; Galaty, John; Coffin, Garth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993
proven to have a more certain outcome (e.g., fertilizer and pesticides) than on technologies which are either expensive or … inputs and knowledge exert large and significant positive impacts on production when farmers adopt combinations of fertilizer … and pesticides (Ada), or fertilizer and cross-bred cows (Selale). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619927
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Report on the socio-economic impact of Natural Rubber cultivation under the block planting scheme in Tripura
Joseph, Joby; George K., Tharian; S.K, Dey - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The study is a pioneering attempt to assess the socio-economic impact of the Block Planting Scheme (BPS) from the angle of the beneficiaries,implementing agencies and the policymakers.The report is based on the primary information gathered from 480 households drawn from Block Planting Units with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108243
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Small farmers, NGOs, and a Walmart World: Welfare effects of supermarkets operating in Nicaragua
Michelson, Hope C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Despite more than a decade of NGO and government activities promoting developing world farmer participation in high-value agricultural markets, evidence regarding the household welfare effects of such initiatives is limited. This paper analyzes the geographic placement of supermarket supply...
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