Sustainable agricultural practices (SAPs) that lead to an increase in productivity are central to the acceleration of economic growth; this will alleviate poverty and help to overcome the recurrent food shortages that affect millions of households in Africa. However, the adoption rates of SAPs re...
Hailemariam T
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Kassie, Menale
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Shiferaw, Bekele
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[On the joint estimation of multiple adoption decisions: the case of sustainable agricultural technologies and practices in Ethiopia]
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On the joint estimation of multiple adoption decisions: the case of sustainable agricultural technologies and practices in Ethiopia
The paper contributes to an understanding of the determinants of food security with a bias on the link between gender of household head and food security using detailed farm household and plot level survey data from 30 divisions in rural Kenya. Both parametric and non-parametric econometric techn...
Kassie, Menale
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Ndiritu SW
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Shiferaw, Bekele
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[Determinants of Food Security in Kenya, a Gender Perspective]
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Determinants of Food Security in Kenya, a Gender Perspective
Crop residue use for soil mulch and animal feed are the two major competing purposes and the basic
source of fundamental challenge in conservation agriculture (CA) where residue retention on farm plots is
one of the three CA principles. Using survey data from Kenya and applying bivariate ordered ...
Jaleta, Moti
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Kassie, Menale
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Shiferaw, Bekele
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[Tradeoffs in Crop Residue Utilization in Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems and Implications for Conservation Agriculture and Sustainable Land Management]
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Tradeoffs in Crop Residue Utilization in Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems and Implications for Conservation Agriculture and Sustainable Land Management
Soaring international food and energy prices and the resulting volatility in markets is alarming many African policy makers. The domestic production of wheat in many countries suffers from lack of policy support and donor neglect resulting from the perception that Africa cannot competitively prod...
Shiferaw, Bekele
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Negassa A
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Koo, Jawoo
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Wood J
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Sonder, Kai
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Braun, J.A.
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Payne T
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[Future of Wheat Production in Sub-Saharan Africa: Analyses of the Expanding Gap between Supply and Demand and Economic Profitability of Domestic Production]
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Future of Wheat Production in Sub-Saharan Africa: Analyses of the Expanding Gap between Supply and Demand and Economic Profitability of Domestic Production
Soil fertility depletion is considered one of the main biophysical limiting factors for increasing per capita food production for smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa. The adoption and diffusion of sustainable agricultural practices (SAPs), as a way to tackle this challenge, has become an im...
Kassie, Menale
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Jaleta, Moti
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Shiferaw, Bekele
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Mmbando, F.
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Mekuria M
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[Interdependence in Farmer Technology Adoption Decisions in Smallholder Systems: Joint Estimation of Investments in Sustainable Agricultural Practices in Rural Tanzania]
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Interdependence in Farmer Technology Adoption Decisions in Smallholder Systems: Joint Estimation of Investments in Sustainable Agricultural Practices in Rural Tanzania