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Book Chapter 2013-11-01

Autor: Ayele, Getaneh K. Nicholson, C. Collick, A.S. Tilahun, Seifu A. Steenhuis, Tammo S.

This study uses Tobit and Logit models to examine the impacts of selected small-scale irrigation schemes in the Lake Tana basin of Ethiopia on household income and the likelihood of poverty, respectively. Data for these analyses were collected from a sample of 180 households. Households using any...

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Ayele, Getaneh K. ,  Nicholson, C. ,  Collick, A.S. ,  Tilahun, Seifu A. ,  Steenhuis, Tammo S. ,  [Impact of small-scale irrigation schemes on household income and the likelihood of poverty in the Lake Tana basin of Ethiopia] ,  Impact of small-scale irrigation schemes on household income and the likelihood of poverty in the Lake Tana basin of Ethiopia
Journal Article 2007

Autor: Randolph, Thomas F. Schelling, E. Grace, Delia Nicholson, C. Leroy, J.L. Cole, D.C. Demment, M.W. Omore, Amos O. Zinsstag, Jakob Ruel, M.

Livestock keeping is critical for many of the poor in the developing world, often contributing to multiple livelihood objectives and offering pathways out of poverty. Livestock keeping also affects an indispensable asset of the poor, their human capital, through its impact on their own nutrition ...

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Randolph, Thomas F. ,  Schelling, E. ,  Grace, Delia ,  Nicholson, C. ,  Leroy, J.L. ,  Cole, D.C. ,  Demment, M.W. ,  Omore, Amos O. ,  Zinsstag, Jakob ,  Ruel, M. ,  [Role of livestock in human nutrition and health for poverty reduction in developing countries] ,  Role of livestock in human nutrition and health for poverty reduction in developing countries
Conference Paper 2003-07-27

Autor: Nicholson, C. Mwangi, L. Staal, Steven J. Thornton, Philip K.

This study examines the hypothesis that dairy cow ownership improves child nutritional status. Using household data from coastal and highland Kenya, three econometric model formulations are estimated. Positive impacts on chronic malnutrition are observed for coastal Kenya. No negative effects on ...

Enlace original: https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/2658

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Nicholson, C. ,  Mwangi, L. ,  Staal, Steven J. ,  Thornton, Philip K. ,  [Dairy cow ownership and child nutritional status in Kenya] ,  Dairy cow ownership and child nutritional status in Kenya
Journal Article 2004

Autor: Nicholson, C. Thornton, Philip K. Muinga, R.W.

This study uses heteroskedastic Tobit and Censored Least Absolute Deviations models to examine the impacts of dairy cow ownership on selected outcomes for a sample of 184 households in coastal Kenya. The outcomes examined include gross household cash income, gross non-agricultural income, consump...

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Nicholson, C. ,  Thornton, Philip K. ,  Muinga, R.W. ,  [Household-level impacts of dairy cow ownership in coastal Kenya] ,  Household-level impacts of dairy cow ownership in coastal Kenya
Working Paper 2000

Autor: Holloway, G.J. Nicholson, C. Delgado, Christopher L. Staal, Steven J. Ehui, Simeon K.

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...

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Holloway, G.J. ,  Nicholson, C. ,  Delgado, Christopher L. ,  Staal, Steven J. ,  Ehui, Simeon K. ,  [How to make a milk market: A case study from the Ethiopian highlands] ,  How to make a milk market: A case study from the Ethiopian highlands
Journal Article 2000

Autor: Holloway, G.J. Nicholson, C. Delgado, Christopher L. Staal, Steven J. Ehui, Simeon K.

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...

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Holloway, G.J. ,  Nicholson, C. ,  Delgado, Christopher L. ,  Staal, Steven J. ,  Ehui, Simeon K. ,  [Agroindustrialization through institutional innovation. Transaction costs, cooperatives and milk-market development in the East-African highlands] ,  Agroindustrialization through institutional innovation. Transaction costs, cooperatives and milk-market development in the East-African highlands
Journal Article 2004-07-15

Autor: Holloway, G.J. Nicholson, C. Delgado, Christopher L. Staal, Steven J. Ehui, Simeon K.

Fixed transactions costs that prohibit exchange engender bias in supply analysis due to censoring of the sample observations. The associated bias in conventional regression procedures applied to censored data and the construction of robust methods for mitigating bias have been preoccupations of a...

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Holloway, G.J. ,  Nicholson, C. ,  Delgado, Christopher L. ,  Staal, Steven J. ,  Ehui, Simeon K. ,  [A revised Tobit procedure for mitigating bias in the presence of non-zero censoring with an application to milk-market participation in the Ethiopian highlands.] ,  A revised Tobit procedure for mitigating bias in the presence of non-zero censoring with an application to milk-market participation in the Ethiopian highlands.
Journal Article 1997

Autor: Staal, Steven J. Delgado, Christopher L. Nicholson, C.

It is argued that dairying is vital to future viability of many small farms in East Africa and that high transactions costs for dairy production and marketing limit participation by asset- and information-poor smalholders. Case studies from Kenya and Ethiopia illustrate the role of dairy cooperat...

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Staal, Steven J. ,  Delgado, Christopher L. ,  Nicholson, C. ,  [Smallholder dairying under transactions costs in East Africa] ,  Smallholder dairying under transactions costs in East Africa

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