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Assessing Rural Women Food Producers Capacity to Adopt Modern ICTs – A case Study of the Mfantsiman District of Ghana
Sampong, D.D.; Egyir, Irene Susana; Yaw, Osei-Asare - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2008
food producers in the Mfantsiman District of Ghana. Simple descriptive statistics and econometric models were employed in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068383
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Gender, Food Security and Livelihoods: The Case of Plan Ghana And Sissala
Bediako, J.A.; Debrah, Kofi - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2008
placed communities selected to ensure an even coverage of Plan Ghana activities in the Sissala West District of Ghana. Data …
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Estimation of the Determinants of Credit Demand by Farmers and Supply by Rural Banks in Ghana’s Upper East Region
Akudugu, M. A. - In: Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development 02 (2012) 02
by farmers and supply by Rural Banks in the Upper East Region of Ghana. Semi-structured questionnaire complimented by key … supply of it by Rural Banks in Ghana‟s Upper East Region are determined by socio-economic and politico-cultural factors. It … is recommended that government; the Bank of Ghana and the Rural Banks themselves should develop strategies that aim at …
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Adoption intensity of soil and water conservation practices by smallholders: evidence from Northern Ghana
Nkegbe, Paul Kwame; Shankar, Bhavani - In: Bio-based and Applied Economics Journal (2014) 2
Soil and water conservation practices are being promoted in Ghana as a way of sustainably managing the environment to … producers in Northern Ghana. Count data models are used for the analysis. The empirical results show that access to information …
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Regional Economic Implications of Water Allocation and Reliability
Harris, Simon; Doak, Murray; Ford, Stuart; Bywater, Tony; … - 2005
The understanding of how allocation decisions can maximise the economic returns to the community from water for irrigation has received little attention, but is a significant issue for regional councils, those interested in water allocation policy development, and for irrigated farmers. There is...
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The Relationship Between Wildfire and Welfare
Kaval, Pamela; Loomis, John B. - 2005
We used the well-being evaluation method, a technique for measuring individual utility, to study how people in the wildland urban interface of Colorado (USA) felt about their lives before and after two wildfire scenarios. Variables such as age, family size, fire frequency, and house value were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443715
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Policy and Institutional effects on market participation by smallholder rice farmers: case studies in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger
Toure, Ali; Bamba, Ibrahim; Diagne, Aliou; Harouna, Kore; … - 2008
Rice sector contributes significantly to secure households with regard to their food needs but also to the creation of employments and income generation. The sector development and its evolution over the years have been marked by various policies and approaches. These development stages of the...
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Production Contracts and Farm Business Growth and Survival
Key, Nigel D. - 2010
In recent decades there has been a substantial increase in the scale of production and the use of production contracts in the hog sector. This paper explores empirically whether these two phenomena are related by examining whether the use of production contracts has allowed finish hog operations...
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Modelling Waikato Farm Nitrogen Discharges for Policy Analysis
Ramilan, Thiagarajah; Scrimgeour, Frank G. - 2005
This study describes the development of bio economic models examining the economic and water quality impact of various proposed policy options in the Upper Waikato catchment. In the first phase nitrogen emissions are determined for representative farming systems using the Overseer nutrient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446323
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Live and Feeder Cattle Options Markets: Returns, Risk, and Volatility Forecasting
Brittain, Lee; Garcia, Philip; Irwin, Scott H. - 2009
The paper examines empirical returns from holding thirty- and ninety-day call and put positions,and the forecasting performance of implied volatility in the live and feeder cattle optionsmarkets. In both markets, implied volatility is an upwardly biased and inefficient predictor ofrealized...
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