This study employs the propensity score matching model to examine the impact of the adoption of water conservation and intensification technologies on farm output and income among small-scale lowland rice farmers in the Northern Region of Ghana. The matching was conducted based on the...

The recent literature on agricultural technology adoption shows that diffusion of new technologies varies significantly across space and time. Furthermore, puzzles exist about why some seemingly profitable technologies are not adopted, especially in livestock production. We employ a hazard or...

This study employs both nonparametric and parametric methods to examine the influence of household expenditure and other demographic variables on household consumption of calories in Tanzania, using recent survey data. Under each estimation strategy we employ, we find significant and positive...

In this paper we estimate a complete demand system for Switzerland, with emphasis on food demand, using a recent household expenditure survey. The Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System (QUAIDS) is employed in the analysis of six food commodity and a non-food groups. The quadratic terms in the...

This paper presents an empirical investigation of the supply of cocoa in Ghana. The error correction model which avoids the familiar partial adjustment model's unrealistic assumption of a fixed target supply based on stationary expectation is used in the analysis. The model provides good...

This paper investigates the factors that influence real agricultural wage rates in Ghana, a critical issue in that country for promoting successful macroeconomic adjustment to structural changes in incentives. It is based on 1957-91 data. The Johansen cointegration framework is used to quantify...