Accurate assessment of farmers' credit constraint condition is important in order to understand the circumstances under which credit would have its greatest impact. In this study a switching regression model was used to determine the impact of credit on smallholder dairy farms in the East African...
Freeman, H.A.
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Ehui, Simeon K.
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Jabbar, M.A.
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[Credit constraints and smallholder dairy production in the East African highlands: Application of a switching regression model]
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Credit constraints and smallholder dairy production in the East African highlands: Application of a switching regression model
Poverty, low crop and animal productivity and large scale resource degradation are major problems in the agriculture sector in the East African highlands. Among others, integration of forage legumes in cereal based cropping systems has been proposed as a promising strategy to improve the sustaina...
Kassie, M.
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Jabbar, M.A.
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Kassa, B.
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Mohamed-Saleem, M.A.
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[Benefits of integration of cereals and forage legumes with and without crossbred cows in mixed farms - an ex ante analysis for highland Ethiopia]
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Benefits of integration of cereals and forage legumes with and without crossbred cows in mixed farms - an ex ante analysis for highland Ethiopia
Past attempts to alleviate the problems of poor farmers engaged in mixed-crop-livestock production have generally focussed on the design and diffusion of new technologies targeted on specific components of the agroecosystem. Unfortunately, such piece-meal efforts have had little impact in the dev...
Li Pun, H.H.
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Baumgaertner, J.U.
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Greiling, J.
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Gopalan, H.
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Jabbar, M.A.
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Mares, V.
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McDermott, John J.
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Odiit, M.
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Mohamed-Saleem, M.A.
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[Linking natural resources, agriculture and human health: case studies from East Africa]
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Linking natural resources, agriculture and human health: case studies from East Africa
The paper first discusses the need for moving from disciplinary to transdisciplinary research in addressing problems of human development and environmental management. Then the experience of a research project in highland Ethiopia is described. This started with disciplinary research and componen...
Jabbar, M.A.
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Mohamed-Saleem, M.A.
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Li-Pun, H.
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[Towards transdisciplinarity in technology and resource management research: A project in Ethiopia]
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Towards transdisciplinarity in technology and resource management research: A project in Ethiopia
This paper reviews recent research, first to present a picture of coming trends in livestock product consumption and production in developing countries, in general, and second to derive some of the market implications of these for smallholders in the highlands. Evidence is also presented concerni...
Staal, Steven J.
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Jabbar, M.A.
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[Markets and livestock in the coming decades: Implications for smallholder highland producers]
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Markets and livestock in the coming decades: Implications for smallholder highland producers
A survey of 131 livestock traders in 38 markets in the highlands of Ethiopia provided information on trader behaviour and transactions costs. The livestock market is characterized by non-standardized products and lack of information in the public domain about supply, demand and prices. Consequent...
Jabbar, M.A.
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Benin, S.E.
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[Trade behaviour and transactions costs in live animal marketing in Ethiopian highland markets]
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Trade behaviour and transactions costs in live animal marketing in Ethiopian highland markets
A Geographic Information Systems (GIS) - based analysis of livestock population dynamics in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region conducted by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development) and the International Livestock Re...
Tulachan, P.M.
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Jabbar, M.A.
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Mohamed-Saleem, M.A.
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[An overview of smallholder dairy farming in mixed mountain farming systems of the HKH: Issues and priorities]
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An overview of smallholder dairy farming in mixed mountain farming systems of the HKH: Issues and priorities
Previous farm-level studies have shown that adopting improved feeding and management strategies improves livestock productivity and, in particular, increases the milk production and income of resource poor smallholder mixed-crop and livestock farmers. This paper analyses the impact of the introdu...
Ahmed, M.M.
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Jabbar, M.A.
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Ehui, Simeon K.
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[Household level economic and nutritional impacts of market-oriented dairy production in the Ethiopian highlands]
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Household level economic and nutritional impacts of market-oriented dairy production in the Ethiopian highlands
Ayele, G.
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Jabbar, M.A.
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Zerfu, E.
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[Diffussion and adoption of Vertisols technology package in highland Ethiopia]
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Diffussion and adoption of Vertisols technology package in highland Ethiopia
The paper first discusses the need for moving from disciplinary to transdisciplinary research in addressing problems of human Development and environmental management. Then the experience of a research project in highland Ethiopia that started with disciplinary research and component technologies...
Jabbar, M.A.
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Mohamed-Saleem, M.A.
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Li Pun, H.H.
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[From component technology to integrated resource management: Evolution toward trandisciplinary research in a project in Ethiopia]
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From component technology to integrated resource management: Evolution toward trandisciplinary research in a project in Ethiopia