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This is a draft paper, submitted in advance of presentation at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association.
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many atomistic smallholders and a few exporters. The model provides the tools needed to simulate the changes in farm …
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their land, struggle to efficiently manage or hold on to their woodlots in the long term. Thus, even when it is smallholders …
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favored plantations and discriminated against smallholders in the colonial states, especially provision of cheap land and … changed so that by the end of the 20th century, smallholders overwhelmingly dominated perennial crop exports, except possibly …-run trend toward smallholders, but much depends on local political economy. …
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This study employs primary data collected through structured questionnaires from 300 agrodealers and uses a Tobit type-II model for the analysis. The results show that interest rate, debt, value of asset, membership of trading association, and source of credit are major determinants of loan...
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To this end, this study seeks to (1) examine the nature of risks facing small-scale farmer-borrowers in Nigeria, (2) analyze the demand for agricultural credit by farmers and highlight the key determinants of this demand, (3) ascertain the extent to which farmers are credit rationed and the...
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This paper assesses whether tractor investment is a rational and profitable decision for farmers using firm investment theory and tractor owner survey data collected in 2013. Under erratic rainfalls, timeliness of farming operations is critical for farmers. Based on the hypothesis that owning a...
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In southwestern Ethiopia honey is a non-timber forest product that provides income for many smallholders. Some of these … access premium markets. Since both production and marketing depend crucially on the forest, both smallholders and the company … have an interest in preserving the forest. An important question is whether smallholders also benefit economically from …
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