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Non-Credit Services of Group-Based Financial Institutions: Implications for Smallholder Women’s Honey Income in Arid and Semi Arid Lands of Kenya

Otieno, Peter Shimon; Nyikal, Rose Adhiambo; Mugivane, … - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2008

on marketing, business, production and subsector analysis). The study uses cross-sectional data from a survey of women …

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Integrating Small Scale Farmers into Bread Wheat Marketing Chain through Contract Farming in Ethiopia

Getaneh, Wubalem; Bekabil, Fufa - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2008

The treatment effect censored regression model results of this study showed that educational level, value of agricultural equipment and number of oxen owned affected the participation decisions of the farmers in bread wheat contract farming significantly. The most important factors that...

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Gendered Impact of Irrigated Rice Schemes’ Governance on Farmers’ Income, Productivity and Technical Efficiency in Benin

Kinkingninhoun-Medagbe, Florent M.; Diagne, Aliou; … - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2008

Collective actions groups have many advantages and are sometimes essential, yet they can reinforce or perpetuate inter-and intra-gender inequalities when their functioning is left entirely subject to internal community dynamics and they are not well managed. This is well illustrated by the case...

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Demand-driven and Cost Effective Production: What the Farmers Ought to know. A case of Local Chicken Enterprise in Masindi District-Uganda

Alum, W.; Kanzikwera, R.; Sanginga, Pascal - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2008

Most African communities depend on agriculture for both income generation and food security and yet farming has faced and is still confronted with a lot of production and market related hardships. Despite all these constraints, farmers are stuck on agriculture as it’s the only definite way of...

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Linking Farmers to Markets: The Case of Grain Marketing Information in Western Kenya

Odendo, Martins; De Groote, Hugo - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2008

the need for marketing information increased. Unfortunately, most farmers have little or no access to marketing … information. This study evaluates farmers’ perceptions of importance of marketing information; identifies farmers’ sources of … grain marketing information; determine farmers’ confidence in and use of marketing information; and assesses determinants …

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Tea Farming Enterprise Contribution to Smallholders’ Well Being In Kenya

Mwaura, Francis; Muku, Ogise - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2008

Poverty reduction among smallholders has remained a major priority for the Kenyan government. Efforts have been geared to have a streamlined agri-business system like emulated by the tea sub-sector. In the smallholder tea sub-sector, farmers are organized to private companies, owns factories,...

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Report on Long Term Challenges and Opportunities for Future Competitiveness and Prosperity of the Agriculture and Agri-Food Industry - Chapter 2: Structure and Performance of the C...

Agriculture Canada, Government of Canada - 2007

This report is the second chapter of the final report prepared by the Federal/Provincial/Territorial (FPT) Working Group (WG) on Economic Analysis at the request of FPT Assistant Deputy Ministers (ADMs), in a joint FPT effort to study the challenges and opportunities facing the agriculture and...

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Report on Long Term Challenges and Opportunities for Future Competitiveness and Prosperity of the Agriculture and Agri-Food Industry - Chapter 1: Primary Agriculture

Agriculture Canada, Government of Canada - 2006

This report is the first chapter of the final report prepared by the Federal/Provincial/Territorial (FPT) Working Group (WG) on Economic Analysis at the request of FPT Assistant Deputy Ministers (ADMs), in a joint FPT effort to study the challenges and opportunities facing the agriculture and...

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Soil Fertility Management And Maize Productivity In Malawi: Curvature Correct Efficiency Modeling And Simulation

Tchale, Hardwick; Sauer, Johannes - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2008

interventions that enhance farmers’ adoption and scaling-up of integrated soil fertility management. …

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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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