This chapter investigates the land management practices used in the highlands of Tigray, northern Ethiopia. The factors influencing them, and their implications for crop production. Several factors commonly hypothesized to have a major impact on land management and agricultural production - inclu...
Pender, J.L.
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Gebremedhin, Berhanu
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[Impacts of policies and technologies in dryland agriculture: Evidence from northern Ethiopia]
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Impacts of policies and technologies in dryland agriculture: Evidence from northern Ethiopia
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Facteurs socio-économiques et accès au crédit des petits producteurs de manioc dans le sud-ouest du Nigeria
L'accès au crédit est un facteur important pour l'augmentation de la productivité agricole. Le modèle " Tobit" a été utilisé pour évaluer les facteurs qui influencent l'intensité de...
Awotide, B.A.
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Abdoulaye, Tahirou
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Alene, A.
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Manyong, Victor M.
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[Socio-economic factors and smallholder cassava farmers' access to credit in south-western Nigeria]
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Socio-economic factors and smallholder cassava farmers' access to credit in south-western Nigeria
Wane, Abdrahmane
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Mballo, A.D.
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[Risk assessment and management to enable access to credit for livestock actors]
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Risk assessment and management to enable access to credit for livestock actors
The purpose of this paper is to investigate how credit access affects the welfare of households and sheds light on how household characteristics influence the decision to take credit and the efficiency in credit use. Design/methodology/approach This study uses data from the fourth round of the Et...
Bocher, T.
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Alemu, B.A.
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Kelbore, Z.G.
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[Does access to credit improve household welfare? Evidence from Ethiopia using endogenous regime switching regression.]
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Does access to credit improve household welfare? Evidence from Ethiopia using endogenous regime switching regression.
Miccolis, A
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Andrade, R.M.T.
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Pacheco, P.
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[Land-use trends and environmental governance policies in Brazil: Paths forward for sustainability]
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Land-use trends and environmental governance policies in Brazil: Paths forward for sustainability
Using the farm as unit of analysis, diagnosis processes aimed at improving production systems are reviewed. Within a country, diagnosis should be conducted at different hierarchical levels: local (interaction between the production system and the input distribution sector, the marketing sector, p...
Se consideran los procesos de diagnostico dirigidos a mejorar sistemas de produccion, utilizando la finca como unidad de analisis. Dentro de un pais, el diagnostico se realiza a diferentes niveles jerarquicos: local (interaccion entre el sistema de produccion y el sector de distribucion de insumo...
Janssen, W.
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[El ambiente socio-economico de la produccion de raices y tuberculos: implicaciones para el diagnostico]
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El ambiente socio-economico de la produccion de raices y tuberculos: implicaciones para el diagnostico
This paper assesses the determinants and effects of credit constraints on the productivity of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Cameroon. Use is made of the Cameroon enterprise survey data collected by the World Bank in 2009 and an endogenous switching regression model. Results show th...
Piabuo, S.M.
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Baye, F.M.
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Tieguhong, J.C.
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[Effects of credit constraints on the productivity of small and medium-sized enterprises in Cameroon]
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Effects of credit constraints on the productivity of small and medium-sized enterprises in Cameroon
The cassava system in Nigeria is developing, with increasing attention to its potential positive outcomes. However, credit access is a major problem in expanding productive activities of the different actors across the value chains of cassava products. This study investigates the extent of access...
Okoruwa, V.O.
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Abass, A.B.
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Akin-Olagunju, O.A.
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Akinola, N.A.
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[Does institution type affect access to finance for cassava actors in Nigeria?]
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Does institution type affect access to finance for cassava actors in Nigeria?
The study establishes the link between agricultural labor productivity and natural resources variables at the national level in Honduras. We show through spatial analysis of productivity and natural resources that the relationship between natural resource conditions and agricultural productivity ...
Barbier, Bruno
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Mejía, O
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Leclerc, G
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[Labor productivity and natural resources: an assessment at the national level in Honduras]
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Labor productivity and natural resources: an assessment at the national level in Honduras