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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
With declining Irish potato production trends in Kenya this paper identifies and analyses factors that influence the … economic efficiency of smallholder Irish potato producers in Kenya by drawing on data from random sample of 130 smallholder …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444755
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Smallholder marketed surplus and input use under transactions costs: maize supply and fertilizer demand in Kenya
Arega, D.A.; Manyong, Victor M.; Omanya, G.; Mignouna, H.D. - 2008
surplus and input use in Kenya. A selectivity model was used that accounts not only for the effects of fixed and variable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446367
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Rural Household Labour Demand, Contract Choice, Hoarding Cost and Poverty: Evidence from Western Kenya
Gathungu, E.; Musyoka, M.P - 2008
hoarding practice in Western region of Kenya. Data from Egerton University’s Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446371
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Staple food prices in Kenya
Ariga, Joshua; Jayne, Thomas S.; Njukia, Stephen - 2010
Maize marketing and trade policy in Kenya has been dominated by two major challenges. The first challenge concerns the …, and price levels, and the forces shaping these trends. These are the objectives of this background paper for Kenya. The … instability. Section 5 describes Kenya’s maize marketing and trade policy objectives, the rationale behind these objectives, and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445988
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Does the structure of agricultural science and technology policy system matter in developing country agricultural productivity growth trends? Evidence from Kenya and Uganda
Mugunieri, Godiah Lawrence; Obare, Gideon A.; Omamo, … - 2009
policy system in developing countries was analysed using a “system components-shift effects” framework, with Kenya and Uganda …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444784
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Effect of contract farming on productivity and income of small holders: The case of tea production in north-western Vietnam
Saigenji, Yoshiko; Zeller, Manfred - 2009
This paper examines potential of contract farming as a rural development tool by revealing its effect on productivity and income of small holders in tea production in north-western Vietnam. In the present research, three economic analyses are applied. First, the technical efficiency of tea...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444845
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Competitiveness and revealed comparative advantage in the SADC maize industry
Mutambatsere, Emelly - 2008
This paper evaluates the production and trade trends for maize and maize products in southern Africa, individual countries’ revealed comparative advantages in producing these products, and the expected implications of freer trade in this sector. The analysis employs mainly annual bilateral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444869
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Has Imported Rice Crowded-out Domestic Rice Production in Ghana? What has Been the Role of Policy?
Asuming-Brempong, Samuel; Osei-Asare, Yaw Bonsu - 2008
Commercial rice imports have accounted for approximately 61%, food aid in rice accounted for about 2%, and domestic rice accounted for some 37% per annum of rice consumption in Ghana over the four years between 2000 and 2003. Compared to the 1990s, these figures show a gradual decline in the...
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The Impact of Access to Credit on the Adoption of hybrid maize in Malawi: An Empirical test of an Agricultural Household Model under credit market failure
Simtowe, F.; Zeller, Manfred - 2008
Guided by the frame work of a household model under credit market failure, this paper aims at investigating the impact of access to credit on the adoption of hybrid maize among households that vary in their credit constraints. The data used in the study is from Malawi collected by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446368
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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, … - 2008
Kenya. The findings indicate that the number of enterprise development related trainings attended by women beekeepers that …
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