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What Impact Are EU Supermarket Standards Having on Developing Countries Export of High-Value Horticultural Products? Evidence from Kenya

Asfaw, Solomon; Mithofer, Dagmar; Waibel, Hermann - 2007

European Union (EU) retailers are setting global benchmarks for the production of fresh food, and are asking their suppliers for produce to be certified according to food safety and quality standards. Compliance to these standards for developing countries small-scale producers entail costly...

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Policy-Induced Technology Adoption: Evidence from the U.S. Lead Phasedown

Kerr, Suzi; Newell, Richard G. - 2001

more effective technology adoption incentives than conventional regulatory standards. We explore this issue for an … evidence that alternative policies affect the pattern of adoption in expected ways. Importantly, we find that the tradable … permit system used during the lead phasedown provided incentives for more efficient technology adoption decisions. Where …

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Re-considering Agri-Environmental Schemes premiums: the impact of fixed costs in sign-up decisions

Barreiro-Hurle, Jesus; Espinosa-Goded, Maria; Dupraz, Pierre - 2008

assure farm profitability investigating the role that fixed costs have on adoption. A farm profit maximizing model is … identify the potential barriers to adoption associated with the presence of fixed compliance costs. A sample of farmers … for explaining adoption decisions. Two different econometric specifications are used to identify the role of fixed costs …

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Farm level adoption decisions of soil and water management technologies in semi-arid Eastern Kenya

Bett, Charles - 2004

In this paper the conceptual framework of individual farmers' adoption decisions of new agricultural technologies is … used to identify factors that influence adoption modified fanya juu terraces in semi-arid eastern Kenya. The adoption … farmers' adoption behaviour. To test intensity of adoption a Torbit model was specified and estimated. Results of logit …

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The Economics of Nested Insurance: The Case of SURE

Cooper, Joseph C.; Sproul, Thomas; Zilberman, David - 2010

evaluate the impact on of SURE on intensification, acreage and adoption. The results suggest that parameters of a government … program like SURE may enhance the adoption and value of crop insurance to the farm sector. A quantitative understanding of the …

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ADOPT: a tool for predicting adoption of agricultural innovations

Kuehne, Geoff; Llewellyn, Rick S.; Pannell, David J.; … - 2011

A wealth of evidence exists about the adoption of new practices and technologies in agriculture but there does not … for estimates of likely extent of adoption and the likely timeframes for project impacts. This paper reports on the … reasoning underpinning the development of ADOPT (Adoption and Diffusion Outcome Prediction Tool). The tool has been designed to …

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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

of access to credit on the adoption of hybrid maize among households that vary in their credit constraints. The data used … estimated using a switching regression in a Double-Hurdle model. Results reveal that while access to credit increases adoption … affect adoption among credit constrained households are different from those that that affect adoption among unconstrained …

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The effect of transaction costs on the decision to replace 'off-the-shelf' software: The role of software diffusion and infusion

Castner, G.; Ferguson, C. - 2000

This study examines the extent to which software diffusion and infusion affect the decision to replace 'off-the-shelf' software, using the example of spreadsheet software. Transaction cost economics motivates the propositions that higher levels of software diffusion and higher levels of software...

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How do practitioners use conceptual modeling in practice?

Davies, I.; Green, P.; Rosemann, M.; Indulska, M.; Gallo, S. - 2006

Much research has been devoted over the years to investigating and advancing the techniques and tools used by analysts when they model. As opposed to what academics, software providers and their resellers promote as should be happening, the aim of this research was to determine whether...

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How Do Parents Raise the Educational Attainment of Future Generations?

Plug, Erik - 2002

The problem with most intergenerational mobility estimates is that unmeasured and inherited abilities prevent us from drawing inferences. In this paper we estimate the intergenerational mobility of schooling and exploit differences between adopted and own birth children to obtain genetically...

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