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 International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).Using the direct … estimated using a switching regression in a Double-Hurdle model. Results reveal that while access to credit increases adoption …

Limited empirical evidence exists either to confirm or refute the hypotheses that food-safety standards confer a …-section sample of 439 small-scale export farmers in Kenya to evaluate the impact of EU retailer food-safety standards on producers … significantly decrease with adoption of standards. Ceteris paribus, farmer’s who adopt standards experience 70% lesser incidence of …

This study investigates the determinants affecting producers’ adoption of some Best Management Practices (BMPs … importance sampling. Education, gender, age, and on-farm residence are found to have significant effects on the adoption of some …

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 …

adoption of these varieties in general, there is increasing pressure on breeding and technology dissemination programs to … desirable and undesirable attributes. In addition, it determines the adoption rates of these varieties and the factors that have … influenced the speed of adoption of the most adopted variety. Results show that NASE 1, NASE 2, NASE 3, NASE 4, NASE 10 and NASE …

Many sorghum varieties have been developed by research institutes in an effort to address food security problems in the … semi-arid areas of Tanzania. Although sorghum is better adapted to drier areas than maize, farmer adoption rates for … sorghum varieties are always lower than that of maize. In addition, maize based food is more acceptable to urban consumers …

food producers have low resource capacity and this could limit the adoption of modern ICTs as a source of and media for … food producers in the Mfantsiman District of Ghana. Simple descriptive statistics and econometric models were employed in … the data analysis of 91 randomly selected respondents. The results of the study showed that: In general, the women food …

unemployment. This paper reports factor interrelationships in dairy adoption with a view to understanding factors that influence … adoption. The binary probit model was used to analyse data from 1575 households. Contrary to findings from similar studies … elsewhere, some factors had a negative association with adoption, thus unfolding a unique adoption process. The association …

influence the adoption and intensity of utilization of BNMS technologies in the NGS of Nigeria. Results showed that less than 10 …, by 2005 the adoption of BNMS-rotation had reached 40% while that of BNMS-manure had reached 48%. A number of factors such … significant in determining farmers’ adoption decisions on BNMS-manure while off-farm income was found to be significant in …

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 International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).Using the direct … estimated using a switching regression in a Double-Hurdle model. Results reveal that while access to credit increases adoption …