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Does Land Use Patterns Matter for Bt-Maize: The Case of Maize Farming System in Kenya
Muhammad, Lutta; Owuor, George; De Groote, Hugo; … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006
Population pressures and the need to optimize the use of limited available land has led to increasing cropping affluence levels within the maize agro-ecologies in Kenya, and a shift from large to smallholder intensification and multiple cropping patterns. Using a geographic information system,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005805120
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Commercializing Smallholder Value Chains for Goats in Mozambique: A System Dynamics Approach
Hamza, Kanar H.; Rich, Karl M.; Baker, A. Derek; … - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2014
Goat producers in Inhassoro follow traditional management practices that lead to low supply of low quality goats. This has negative impacts on profitability, and on market access. Traders who buy in the Inhassoro locality buy only small volumes, and buyers from external markets are unaware of...
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Market Competition in Export Cash Crops and Farm Income
Depetris Chauvin, Nicolas; Porto, Guido G. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2011
many atomistic smallholders and a few exporters. The model provides the tools needed to simulate the changes in farm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011069665
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Non-Traditional Export Crops and Household Livelihood Strategies: Panel Data Evidence from Guatemala
Kilic, Talip; Carletto, Calogero - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2009
This study uses a unique panel dataset that spans a 20-year period (1985-2005), and estimates the effect of household non-traditional agricultural export (NTX) adoption on changes in livelihood orientation and participation in non-farm employment in Santiago Sacatepéquez municipality of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004998980
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An Analysis of Scope Economies and Specialisation Efficiencies Among Thai Shrimp and Rice Smallholders
Mekhora, Thamrong; Fleming, Euan M. - School of Economics, Business School - 2004
Smallholders increasingly combine shrimp culture with the more traditional rice enterprise in regions of Thailand … the two enterprises among best-practice smallholders but they were offset by diversification inefficiencies beneath the … cost complementarities on the frontier. It is likely that 'best-practice' smallholders are able to 'internalise' the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038818
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Rice and Remittances: The Impact of Labour Migration on Rice Intensification in Southern Laos
Manivong, Vongpaphane; Cramb, Rob A.; Newby, Jonathan C. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2012
Despite being a low‐income, agriculture‐based country with a subsistence‐orientation, Laos is in the early stages of a major economic transformation whereby rural households have been experiencing rapid change in their farming and livelihood systems. Some households have engaged in what...
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Wages and employment in non-farm agricultural activities: a livelihood strategy in Nicaragua.
Gonzalez, Zuniga; Alberto, Carlos; Villanueva, Jaramillo; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This article analyzes the indexes for nonfarm agricultural activities, which combine agricultural activities with both employment and wage. They were made with panel data of Living Measurement Standard Survey (1993, 1998, 2001 and 2005) and they were processed with econometric model as...
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Labour Migration and Remittances in Uttarakhand
Jain, Anmol - eSocialSciences - 2012
The type, volume, and mode of transfer of remittances in Uttarakhand is analysed. The impact of remittances, in terms of both financial flows and transfer of new skills and the perceptions in relation to poverty, development, and gender are studied. The study focused on the hill state of...
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Trees in the Andes: : sustainable livelihood strategies for risk reduction
Jost, François Paul - 2016
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Why Do People Leave Bequests? For Love or Self-Interest? Evidence from a New International Survey of Bequest Plans
Horioka, Charles Yuji - School of Economics, University of the Philippines at … - 2014
This paper discusses three alternative assumptions concerning household preferences (altruism, self-interest, and a desire for dynasty building) and shows that these assumptions have very different implications for bequest motives and bequest division. After reviewing some of the literature on...
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