Based on analysis of credit supply in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria, it is shown that public credit institutions do not have sufficient funds to meet the demand for livestock credit and cannot mobilize savings from their clients or other commercial sources for one reason or another. In addi...
Jabbar, M.A.
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Ehui, Simeon K.
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Kaufmann, Ralph R. von
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[Supply and demand for livestock credit in sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons for designing new credit schemes]
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Supply and demand for livestock credit in sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons for designing new credit schemes
Some smallholders are able to generate reliable and substantial income flows through small-scale dairy production for the local market; for others, a set of unique transactions costs hinders participation. Co-operative selling institutions are potential catalysts for mitigating these costs, stimu...
Holloway, G.J.
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Nicholson, C.
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Delgado, Christopher L.
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Staal, Steven J.
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Ehui, Simeon K.
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[How to make a milk market: A case study from the Ethiopian highlands]
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How to make a milk market: A case study from the Ethiopian highlands
Some small-holders are able to generate reliable and substantial income flows through small-scale dairy production for the local market; for others, a set of unique transaction costs hinders participation. Cooperative selling institutions are potential catalysts for mitigating these costs, stimul...
Holloway, G.J.
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Nicholson, C.
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Delgado, Christopher L.
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Staal, Steven J.
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Ehui, Simeon K.
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[Agroindustrialization through institutional innovation. Transaction costs, cooperatives and milk-market development in the East-African highlands]
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Agroindustrialization through institutional innovation. Transaction costs, cooperatives and milk-market development in the East-African highlands
Prior to 1975, agriculture in Ethiopia was organized largely under feudalistic/imperial arrangements, The Ethiopian military government (1974-1991) issued the Land Reform Proclamation in 1975 which nationalized and redistributed most of the agricultural land among rural households. Land redistrib...
Omiti, J.M.
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Parton, K.A.
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Ehui, Simeon K.
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Sinden, J.A.
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[Some policy implications of the resurfacing of rural factor markets following agrarian de-collectivization in Ethiopia]
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Some policy implications of the resurfacing of rural factor markets following agrarian de-collectivization in Ethiopia
Data augmentation is a powerful technique for estimating models with latent or missing data, but applications in agricultural economics have thus far been few. This paper showcases the technique in an application to data on milk market participation in the Ethiopian highlands. There, a key impedi...
Holloway, G.J.
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Dorfman, J.H
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Ehui, Simeon K.
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[Tobit estimation with unknown point of censoring with an application to milk-market participation in the Ethiopian highlands]
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Tobit estimation with unknown point of censoring with an application to milk-market participation in the Ethiopian highlands
Since 1975, agricultural land tenure arrangements in Ethiopia have changed from a feudal system, to a socialist model with semi-collectivist villages and, from 1991, to a small-holder system based on private (freehold) ownershiBy surveying a random sample of 94 households in the Ethiopian highlan...
Omiti, J.M.
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Parton, K.A.
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Sinden, J.A.
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Ehui, Simeon K.
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[Monitoring changes in land-use practices following agrarian de-collectivisation in Ethiopia]
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Monitoring changes in land-use practices following agrarian de-collectivisation in Ethiopia
Benin, S.E.
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Gebremedhin, Berhanu
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Smale, M.
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Pender, J.L.
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Ehui, Simeon K.
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[Determinants of cereal diversity in communities and on household farms of the northern Ethiopian highlands]
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Determinants of cereal diversity in communities and on household farms of the northern Ethiopian highlands
Nin Pratt, A.
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Lapar, Ma. Lucila
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Ehui, Simeon K.
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[Globalization, trade liberalization and poverty alleviation in Southeast Asia: the case of the livestock sector in Vietnam]
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Globalization, trade liberalization and poverty alleviation in Southeast Asia: the case of the livestock sector in Vietnam
Concerns about the generation of greenhouse gases, biodiversity loss, overgrazing and desertification of dry lands and the maintainance of soil and water quality are increasing as human populations grow. This paper discusses what the role livestock can contribute to these problems. Studies showed...