poverty and low productivity in Malawi - based on a sample survey in the Lilongwe land development programme, examines land … utilization, agricultural credit, agricultural production, farming systems, household characteristics, etc. Diagram and tables. …

, productivity, and technical efficiency of farmers. Through an empirical investigation of farmers from Koussin-Lélé, a semi …-collective irrigated rice scheme in central Benin, we find that female rice farmers are particularly discriminated against with regard to … scheme membership and access to land and equipment, resulting in significant negative impacts on their productivity and …

This study examined changes in agricultural productivity at Benin in the context of diverse institutional arrangements … information was for a 43-year period (1961-2003); DEA method was used to measure Malquist index of total factor productivity to … TFP measures revealed whether the performance of factors productivity is due to technological change or technical …

annual household income is higher for potential adopters from Northern Benin. The findings suggest to impact assessment … differential impact of NERICA adoption on the yield and farmers’ household annual income using data from 342 rice farmers from … Benin. It applies the potential outcomes framework to estimate the Local Average Treatment Effect (LATE) of NERICA adoption …