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Development and Dissemination of Improved Cassava Varieties in Uganda: Analysis of Adoption Rates, Variety Attributes and Speed of Adoption
Abele, Steffen; Twine, Edgar; Ntawuruhunga, Pheneas; … - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2008
adoption of these varieties in general, there is increasing pressure on breeding and technology dissemination programs to … desirable and undesirable attributes. In addition, it determines the adoption rates of these varieties and the factors that have … influenced the speed of adoption of the most adopted variety. Results show that NASE 1, NASE 2, NASE 3, NASE 4, NASE 10 and NASE …
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Evaluation de la diffusion et de l’adoption des variétés de riz NERICA en Guinée
Diagne, Aliou; Sogbossi, Marie-Josee; Diawara, Sekou; … - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2008
L’objectif de la présente étude est d’évaluer la diffusion et l’adoption des variétés de riz NERICA en Guinée cinq … quatre régions naturelles de la Guinée. L’approche d’estimation du taux d’adoption utilisée dans ce papier se fonde sur les …% de la population guinéenne connaissaient au moins une variété NERICA en 2001 avec 23% pour le taux d’adoption observé au …
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Understanding Spatial Welfare Impacts of a Grain Ethanol Plant
Van Wart, Justin; Perrin, Richard K. - 2009
A changing world of increasing complexity, fluctuating prices, high energy costs and limited data necessitate creative blending of economic theory and available empirical statistics to understand the welfare impacts in a specific market. In this paper, a programming approach is used in tandem...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444790
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2009
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Macroeconomic Impacts of Water Use in Agriculture
Weinheimer, Justin; Wheeler-Cook, Erin; Ethridge, Don E.; … - 2010
The recent/current recession provides the opportunity to study the effects of the macroeconomic changes on the agricultural production systems in the Great Plains and trace some of its impacts through the system to changes in primary inputs such water resource use. Therefore, the objective of...
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Segmenting Consumers to Inform Agrifood Value Chain Development in Nepal
Adhikari, Rajendra Prasad; Collins, Ray; Sun, Ximing - In: International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 15 (2012) 4
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Understanding Spatial Welfare Impacts of a Grain Ethanol Plant
Van Wart, Justin; Perrin, Richard K. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
A changing world of increasing complexity, fluctuating prices, high energy costs and limited data necessitate creative blending of economic theory and available empirical statistics to understand the welfare impacts in a specific market. In this paper, a programming approach is used in tandem...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010880096
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Effects of Water Priority Policy on Farmers' Decision on Acreage Allocation in Northwest China
Zhang, Lei; Herzfeld, Thomas - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
This article analyses the impact of a water allocation priority policy for a specific crop on farmers’ acreage allocation to different crops. To accomplish this, a system of crop acreage demands conditional on output yields, prices of variable inputs and levels of quasi-fixed inputs is...
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Facilitating access to rural services in Vietnam: The invisible social capital link
Hoang Dinh, Quoc; Dufhues, Thomas; Buchenrieder, Gertrud - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
This paper investigates the effects of network based individual social capital on the access of rural households to services. In the context of development economics, an innovative data collection approach is used to determine network based social capital. The approach originates from the field...
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Environmental and Social Values from Plantation Forests: A Study in New Zealand with Focus on the Hawke’s Bay Region
Palma, Rivas; Maria, Rosa; Manley, Bruce; Kerr, Geoffrey N. - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2012
There is a need for better understanding and estimating forests non-market values. This study aimed to investigate the environmental and social values of plantation forests in New Zealand focusing in Hawke’s Bay. Identified stakeholder groups considered Erosion control, Water quality and...
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