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The Paradigm of African Agricultural Efficiency, 1967-2012: What Does Meta-Analysis Reveal?
Ogundari, Kolawole - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2013
The present study investigates the development (i.e., rise or decline) in African agricultural efficiency level and … what drives the efficiency over the years. A total of 379 frontier studies resulting in 534 farm level efficiency estimates … were considered using meta-regression analysis (MRA) for the empirical analysis. The results show that mean efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010920208
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Economic Efficiency of Smallholder Irish Potato Producers in Kenya: A Case of Nyandarua North District
Nyagaka, Daniel; Obare, Gideon A.; Nguyo, Wilson - 2009
economic efficiency of smallholder Irish potato producers in Kenya by drawing on data from random sample of 130 smallholder … efficiency components and a two-limit Tobit model is used to derive efficiency indices as a function of a vector of socio … efficiency is 0.39 with a range of 0.12 - 0.66. Education, access to extension, access to credit and membership in a farmers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444755
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Economic Efficiency of Smallholder Irish Potato Producers in Kenya: A Case of Nyandarua North District
Nyagaka, Daniel; Obare, Gideon A.; Nguyo, Wilson - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
economic efficiency of smallholder Irish potato producers in Kenya by drawing on data from random sample of 130 smallholder … efficiency components and a two-limit Tobit model is used to derive efficiency indices as a function of a vector of socio … efficiency is 0.39 with a range of 0.12 - 0.66. Education, access to extension, access to credit and membership in a farmers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010913503
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Inputs use in the agriculture of Emilia-Romagna: farm comparison through the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) index
Ghelfi, Rino; Bertazzoli, Aldo; Marchi, Alan; Rivaroli, … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010
milk production farms. A significant number of indexing procedures is accessible to evaluate the efficiency in converting … Emilia Romagna Region DG Agriculture. The study highlights how the TFP is a convenient index to evaluate the efficiency in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201367
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Do Farmers Internalise External Impacts of Pesticides in Production?
Skevas, Theodoros; Stefanou, Spiro E.; Oude Lansink, … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010
In modern agriculture, pesticides feature so prominently in growers’ arsenal to reduce crop damage caused by various pests and diseases. But their indiscriminate use can harm human health and the environment and, eventually, impact agricultural productivity negatively. In an era of an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201375
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Application of Fuzzy Sets within Measuring and Managing certain Agricultural Risks
Sedlak, Otilija; Kocic Vugdelija, Vesna - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010
The aim of this paper is to set-up the algorithm for determining the degree of workability of the soil, to help the owners of family farms to plan working hours of agricultural machines, i.e. with the machine park management. The plans, which would be made by use of these algorithms and based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201382
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A Hedonic Price Analysis of Corn and Soybean Herbicides
Vassalos, Michael; Dillon, Carl R. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010
Herbicides account for approximately 2.2% of total farm expenses and are applied to more than 80% of farmland in the USA. The widespread adoption of herbicides contributed to the increased and relatively cheaper productivity of modern intensively managed agricultural systems in developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201383
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Relationships between Agricultural policies and Environmental Effects in Japan: An Environmental-Economic Integrated Model Approach
Sasaki, Hiroki - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010
This study investigates the optimal agricultural land use allocation and nitrogen application to a representative Japanese farm. The site-specific nature of numerous agri-environmental issues necessitates analysis at a disaggregated level in order to capture the underlying heterogeneity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201386
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How much can be gained by optimizing nutrient abetment spatially – Cost – efficiency comparison of non – point arable loads from different Finnish watersheds
Helin, Janne; Tattari, Sirkka - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010
Targeting has become the buzz word in the national agri-environmental policy reform in Finland. It is generally accepted that more environmental benefits could be reaped by implementing environmental protection measures where they have the biggest positive impact. However, considering one of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201391
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The supermarket revolution and impacts on agricultural labor markets: Empirical evidence from Kenya
Rao, Elizaphan J.O.; Qaim, Matin - Institut für Agrarökonomie, Georg-August-Universität … - 2011
Many developing countries are currently experiencing a rapid expansion of supermarkets. New supermarket procurement systems could have important implications for farming and wider rural development. While previous studies have analyzed farm profit and income effects, possible employment effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201393