A translog stochastic production fronter was used to analyse the technical efficiency of small farmers using improved maize production technology in Western Ethiopia. The study estimated a mean technical efficiency for the entire sample of 76%, indicating that a significant potential for gains fr...
Alene, A.
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Hassan, R.M.
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[Determinants of farmlevel technical efficiency among adopters of improved maize production technology in Western Ethiopia]
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Determinants of farmlevel technical efficiency among adopters of improved maize production technology in Western Ethiopia
The question of whether the intended gains in food production from new varieties have actually been realized by poor farmers has received little or no attention in the literature. This paper used a stochastic frontier efficiency decomposition methodology to derive the technical, allocative and ec...
Alene, A.
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[Unexploited food production potentials of new varieties: evidence from hybrid maize production in western Ethiopia]
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Unexploited food production potentials of new varieties: evidence from hybrid maize production in western Ethiopia
This study investigates the impact of improved maize varieties on household food security in eastern Zambia using household survey data from a sample of over 800 rural households. Since treatment effect estimates are often prone to misspecification in either the treatment or outcome equation, we ...
Manda, J.
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Gardebroek, C.
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Kuntashula, E.
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Alene, A.
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[Impact of improved maize varieties on food security in eastern Zambia: a doubly robust analysis]
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Impact of improved maize varieties on food security in eastern Zambia: a doubly robust analysis
Using household survey data from a sample of 810 households, this paper analyses the determinants of children’s nutritional status and evaluates the impacts of improved maize varieties on child malnutrition in eastern Zambia. The paper uses an endogenous switching regression technique, combined w...
Manda, J.
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Gardebroek, C.
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Khonje, M.G.
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Alene, A.
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Mutenje, M.
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Kassie, M.
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[Determinants of child nutritional status in the eastern province of Zambia: the role of improved maize varieties]
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Determinants of child nutritional status in the eastern province of Zambia: the role of improved maize varieties
Striga hermonthica (del) Benth is threatening rural livelihoods in western Kenya where maize is the major food and cash crop. Vulnerability analysis was conducted on a sample of 802 households in eight districts of Nyanza and Western provinces. Farmers perceived Striga as the major cause of pover...
Manyong, Victor M.
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Alene, A.
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Odhiambo, G.D.
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Mignouna, H.D.
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Bokanga, M.
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Omanya, G.
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Nindi, S.J.
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[Livelihood strategies of resource poor farmers in strigainfested areas of western Kenya]
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Livelihood strategies of resource poor farmers in strigainfested areas of western Kenya