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The Value of Accurate Crop Production Forecasts.
Jayne, Thomas S.; Rashid, Shahidur - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2010
Crop production forecasts are widely recognized as an important input into food balance sheets and for anticipating production shortfalls. However, the role of accurate crop production forecasting systems in mitigating food price instability and transitory food insecurity is often...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008741279
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Ex-Post Impacts of Improved Maize Varieties on Poverty in Rural Ethiopia
Zeng, Di; Alwang, Jeffrey; Norton, George; Shiferaw, Bekele - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
A procedure is developed to examine the ex-post impacts of improved maize varieties on poverty in rural Ethiopia. Yield … effects to identify the counterfactual income distribution without improved maize arieties. Poverty impacts are estimated as … the differences in poverty indices computed using observed and counterfactual income distributions. Improved maize …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010916306
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Food Security in Developing Countries
Staatz, John M.; Boughton, Duncan; Donovan, Cynthia - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009
This paper provides a systematic definition of food security, focusing on its different dimensions; examines the nature and magnitude of the different dimensions of food insecurity in developing countries; discusses the difficult tradeoffs that policy makers face in trying to address food...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005000477
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Trends in the Production, Trade, and Consumption of Food-Legume Crops in Sub-Saharan Africa
Akibode, Comlanvi Sitou - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2011
Food legumes in Sub-Saharan Africa play a vital role by being a source of livelihood for millions of people; and offer tremendous potential to contribute to the alleviation of malnutrition among resource-poor farmers. They contribute to the sustainability of cropping systems and soil fertility....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294267
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Smallholder Commercialization Trends as Affected by Land Constraints in Zambia: What Are the Policy Implications?
Hichaambwa, Munguzwe; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2012
In spite of vast expanses of the country’s land currently being uncultivated, there is increasing evidence that a surprisingly high share of rural smallholder households face land constraints that adversely affect their productivity and ability to participate in agricultural supply chains.
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Innovation Systems and Technical Efficiency in Developing-Country Agriculture
Mekonnen, Dawit Kelemework; Spielman, David J.; Fonsah, … - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2012
The paper uses a stochastic frontier analysis of production functions to estimate the level of technical efficiency in agriculture for a panel of 29 developing countries in Africa and Asia between 1994 and 2000. In addition, the paper examines how different components of an agricultural...
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Effectiveness of the bean seed dissemination models implemented under the Bean Technology Dissemination (BTD) Project: Results of key informant interviews in Guatemala, Honduras an...
Reyes, Byron; DeYoung, David; Maredia, Mywish K. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011199699
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Farmer perspective on the use of and demand for seeds of improved bean varieties: Results of beneficiary surveys in Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua
Maredia, Mywish K.; Reyes, Byron; DeYoung, David - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2014
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Technical Efficiency of Resource Conserving Technologies in Rice Wheat Systems: Case of Bihar and Eastern Uttar Pradesh in India
Khong, Tien Dung; Pede, Valerien O.; Sumalde, Zenaida M.; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011
This study aimed to evaluate the technical efficiency of farmers engaged in rice-wheat cropping systems in India using Resource Conserving Technologies (RCTs) such as zero-tillage and direct seeding, under the intervention of the Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia (CSISA) project primarily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021017
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The Outlook for Agriculture and Rural Development in the Americas 2011 -2012
ECLAC; FAO; IICA - Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe …; … - 2011
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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