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Did the plan Sénégal emergent affect cropping decisions in the Senegal River Basin?
Moss, Charles B.; Mbaye, Samba; Naseem, Anwar; Oehmke, … - In: Economies : open access journal 6 (2018) 3, pp. 1-17
developing economies from subsistence to commercial agriculture. Senegal’s Plan Sénégal Emergent (PSE) provides a data point in … this discussion. Senegal and international donors invested in agricultural supply chains starting in 2012 to facilitate the … emergence of commercial agriculture for peanuts, rice, and vegetables. This study focuses on these investments in the Senegal …
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Storage infrastructure and agricultural yield: Evidence from a capital investment subsidy scheme
Chatterjee, Somdeep - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 12 (2018) 2018-65, pp. 1-19
In a developing economy, the availability of storage infrastructure is considered essential for two purposes; the reduction of post-harvest losses resulting in food shortage, and allowing for gains from inter-temporal trade due to potential arbitrage opportunities arising out of volatility in...
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The adoption of agriculturalinputs by samllholder farmers: the case of an improved groundnut seed and chemical fertilizer in the Senegalese groundnut basin
Thuo, Mary W.; Bravo-Ureta, Boris E.; Obeng-Asiedu, Kofi; … - In: Journal of Developing Areas 48 (2014) 1, pp. 61-82
This study provides empirical evidence of factors that influence the adoption of an improved groundnut variety (La Fleur 11), and chemical fertilizer in the Senegalese Groundnut Basin. Pooled cross-sectional time-series farm level data collected in the Basin are used to estimate univariate and...
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Unraveling the effects of import bans on domestic poultry production : a case study of Senegal
Zamani, Omid; Chibanda, Craig; Pelikan, Janine - In: Agricultural and Food Economics : AFE 11 (2023) 1, pp. 1-25
Senegal banned all imports of uncooked poultry meat in 2006 in response to Avian Influenza outbreaks in many exporting … Senegal's broiler farms. To do so, we employ various comparative analyses at the farm and macro levels. We use the synthetic … control method to estimate the effects on total production, which shows that Senegal’s chicken meat production increased more …
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Consumption smoothing and price enhancement motives for grain storage: Empirical perspectives from rural Ethiopia
Tesfaye, Wondimagegn; Gebremariam, Gebrelibanos - In: Agricultural and Food Economics 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-19
Consumption smoothing and temporal price arbitrage are the two main economic motives for grain storage in semi-subsistence economies. Nonetheless, little has been documented on the determinants of households' grain storage behavior. Using a rich panel data from maize producing households in...
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Consumption smoothing and price enhancement motives for grain storage : empirical perspectives from rural Ethiopia
Tesfaye, Wondimagegn; Gebremariam, Gebrelibanos - In: Agricultural and Food Economics : AFE 8 (2020) 25, pp. 1-19
Consumption smoothing and temporal price arbitrage are the two main economic motives for grain storage in semi-subsistence economies. Nonetheless, little has been documented on the determinants of households' grain storage behavior. Using a rich panel data from maize producing households in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296080
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Herd growth, farm organisation and subsidies in the dairy sector of Russia and Kazakhstan
Petrick, Martin; Götz, Linde - In: Journal of Agricultural Economics 70 (2019) 3, pp. 789-811
Initially taken as a template for farm restructuring after the demise of collective agriculture, the ‘Western family farm model’ has taken root in the former Soviet countries only belatedly and incompletely. We examine dairy structures in Russia and Kazakhstan and analyse the drivers of...
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Technical efficiency of smallholder agriculture in developing countries: The case of Ethiopia
Tenaye, Anbes - In: Economies 8 (2020) 2, pp. 1-27
The efficient use of inputs is indispensable in many developing countries, such as Ethiopia. This study assesses the level and determinants of technical efficiency of smallholder farmers using the true fixed effects (TFE) model. The TFE model separates inefficiency from unobserved heterogeneity....
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Technical efficiency of smallholder agriculture in developing countries : the case of Ethiopia
Tenaye, Anbes - In: Economies : open access journal 8 (2020) 2/34, pp. 1-27
The efficient use of inputs is indispensable in many developing countries, such as Ethiopia. This study assesses the level and determinants of technical efficiency of smallholder farmers using the true fixed effects (TFE) model. The TFE model separates inefficiency from unobserved heterogeneity....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012238419
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Subsidized Farm Input Programs and Agricultural Performance: A Farm-Level Analysis of West Bengal's Green Revolution, 1982-1995
Bardhan, Pranab; Mookherjee, Dilip - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 3 (2011) 4, pp. 186-214
We examine the role of delivery of subsidized seeds and fertilizers in the form of agricultural minikits by local governments in three successive farm panels in West Bengal spanning 1982-1995. These programs significantly raised farm value added per acre, accounting for almost two-thirds of the...
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