Few empirical studies of supply response using the profit function have accounted for technical inefficiency. Using farm-level panel data from Ethiopia, this study examines the effect of incorporating technical inefficiency in estimating the supply response of peasant farmers. Two systems of...

This study examines the responsiveness of peasant farmers in Ethiopia to price and non-price factors. Quadratic production and restricted profit functions are estimated using farm-level survey data from Ethiopia in 1994. The results indicate that farmers respond only modestly to price...

This study assesses the responsiveness of peas ant farmers to price and non-price factors using a farm-level survey data from Ethiopia, and the extent to which responsiveness varies with agro-ecology and farming systems. Agro-climatic and farming system differences are explicitly taken into...