Marketing outlets choice is one of the most important farm household decisions to sell their produce and has a great impact on household income. Though the study area has great potential of honey production, the farmers in the study area faced the marketing problem in choice of appropriate honey...

In this paper, we investigate the impact of the integrated urban housing development program on poverty alleviation using household’s consumption expenditure as a proxy. For this, primary household level data were collected from 240 randomly selected households, 120 from participants while 120...

This study estimates technical, allocative and economic efficiencies and identifies their determinants in smallholders' vegetable-dominated mixed farming system of eastern Ethiopia. Technical, allocative and economic efficiencies were estimated by a non-parametric data envelopment analysis...

Marketing outlets choice is one of the most important farm household decisions to sell their produce and has a great impact on household income. Though the study area has great potential of honey production, the farmers in the study area faced the marketing problem in choice of appropriate honey...

This study investigates the enforcement of traditional vegetable marketing contracts between producers and traders in Ethiopia using the general conceptual framework of contract enforcement extended to capture the payment at risk. Empirical results show that despite its imperfections, compliance...

In this paper, we investigate the impact of the integrated urban housing development program on poverty alleviation using household’s consumption expenditure as a proxy. For this, primary household level data were collected from 240 randomly selected households, 120 from participants while 120...

Smallholder farmers search for their product buyers in local spot market transactions. In spot market transactions, farmers will not be assured of ready markets for their production, or face volatile market prices. Similarly malt barley farmers used to face challenges of accessing input, farm...

This study examined the impact of rural out-migration on the poverty of migrant-sending households by applying the new economics labor migration theory as a theoretical framework, and the multinomial endogenous switching regression as an analytical model in southern Ethiopia. Data were gathered...