Although it may be wholly inappropriate to generalize, the most important resource available to a subsistence household is the total amount of time that its members have available to spend in productive enterprises. In this context, services that minimize the time that it takes to perform product...
Holloway, G.J.
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Ehui, Simeon K.
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[Demand, supply and willingness-to-pay for extension services in an emerging-market setting]
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Demand, supply and willingness-to-pay for extension services in an emerging-market setting
Factors driving the demand for livestock products in the developing countries are primarily population growth, urbanisation and income growth. These factors are expected to continue to fuel the increase in milk and meat consumption in the next millennium, creating a veritable livestock revolution...
Ehui, Simeon K.
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Paulos, Z.
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Lapar, Ma. Lucila
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[Livestock to 2020 in South-East Asia: implications for policies and development strategies]
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Livestock to 2020 in South-East Asia: implications for policies and development strategies
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
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
This paper reviews the empirical evidence on the contribution of livestock to aggregate food supply, farm income, human nutrition, and to the environmental sustainability. It is divided in sections. The first section examines trends in livestock demand and supply and their projections to 2020. Th...
Ehui, Simeon K.
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[A review of the contribution of livestock to food security, poverty alleviation and environmental sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa]
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A review of the contribution of livestock to food security, poverty alleviation and environmental sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa
Livestock production is a major contributor to economic development, both driving economic growth and benefiting from it. As an engine of growth, it provides increased income, employment, food and foreign exchange earnings, as well as better nutrition. As income increases with economic developmen...
This paper discusses the potential impacts of the formation of milk groups on farm households that participate by selling milk, and develops a conceptual framework for assessing those impacts. It then explores the financial and technical performance of four milk groups formed prior to 1997, and t...
Nicholson, C.
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Gebru, G.
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Ehui, Simeon K.
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Shapiro, Barry I.
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Delgado, Christopher L.
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[Producer milk groups in Ethiopia's highlands: A framework for assessing impacts and a review of group performance]
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Producer milk groups in Ethiopia's highlands: A framework for assessing impacts and a review of group performance