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Inadequate feed and nutrition are major constraints to livestock production in sub-Saharan Africa. National and international research agencies, including the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), have developed several feed production and utilisation technologies. However, adoption ...


Gebremedhin, BerhanuAhmed, M.M.Ehui, Simeon K.[Determinants of adoption of improved forage technologies in crop-livestock mixed systems: Evidence from the highlands of Ethiopia]Determinants of adoption of improved forage technologies in crop-livestock mixed systems: Evidence from the highlands of Ethiopia

The degree to which prevailing land tenure arrangements constrain agricultural productivity, and the sources of inefficiency associated with land tenure systems in sub-Saharan Africa are unresolved. Using a stochastic frontier production function, this paper examines the economic efficiency and t...


Ahmed, M.M.Gebremedhin, BerhanuBenin, S.E.Ehui, Simeon K.[Measurement and sources of technical efficiency of land tenure contracts in Ethiopia]Measurement and sources of technical efficiency of land tenure contracts in Ethiopia

This study develops and demonstrates procedures for modeling the impact of agricultural technology adoption decisions on consumption and nutrition in a subsistence-farming context. The method is based on expected direct utility maximization (EDUM) formulation and incorporates subsistence quantiti...


Ahmed, M.M.Preckel, P.Baker, T.G.López Pereira, M.[Modeling the impact of technological change on nutrition and marketed surplus]Modeling the impact of technological change on nutrition and marketed surplus

In spite of substantial introduction of new sorghum and millet cultivars in semiarid Sub-Saharan Africa, there has been minimum aggregate impact on yields (FAO and ICRISAT, 1996: The World Sorghum Economies: Facts, Trends and Outlook. FAO, Rome, Italy and ICRISAT, Andhra Pradesh, India) in contra...


Ahmed, M.M.Sanders, J.H.Nell, W.T.[New sorghum and millet cultivar introduction in sub-Saharan Africa: Impacts and research agenda]New sorghum and millet cultivar introduction in sub-Saharan Africa: Impacts and research agenda

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