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results generally indicate that adoption of cocoa agroforests has significant positive impacts on yield and household income …
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This paper investigates the effects of network based individual social capital on the access of rural households to services. In the context of development economics, an innovative data collection approach is used to determine network based social capital. The approach originates from the field...
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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 …
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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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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 …
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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 …
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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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This 2008 report provides an economic overview of the Canadian agriculture and agri-food system. It is meant to be a multi-purpose reference document to provide: an introduction to the agriculture and agri-food system; a snapshot of structural changes that are occurring throughout the system in...
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This 2011 report provides an economic overview of the Canadian agriculture and agri-food system. It is meant to be a multi-purpose reference document to provide: an introduction to the agriculture and agri-food system; a snapshot of structural changes that are occurring throughout the system in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009004302
Since late 2010 and continuing into 2011, price volatility, in relation to basic agricultural commodities, has occupied center stage on the agendas of decision makers. An additional concern has been uncertainty about a new global economic crisis in the wake of the macroeconomic difficulties...
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