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Coping with food and nutrition insecurity in Zimbabwe: does household head gender matter?
Abstract On the basis of a large-scale nationally representative sample of household data from five pooled cross-section surveys conducted by …
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Performance, behaviour and organization of maize trading in Malawi
Industry structure and social capital could affect traders, market performance and distribution of economic resources such as food. This study …
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Correcting for sample selection in stochastic frontier analysis: insights from rice farmers in Northern Ghana
This study employs stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) correcting for sample selection bias, to determine technical efficiency (TE) and technology gap …
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Analysis of households food insecurity and its coping mechanisms in Western Ethiopia
This study analyzed households’ food insecurity and its determinants along with the coping mechanisms opted against food insecurity and shortage …
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Shocks in food availability and intra-household resources allocation: evidence on children nutrition outcomes in Ethiopia
This paper examines the intra-gender nutrition outcome both with and without the presence of household level shock using Living Standards …
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Promoting ecosystem-friendly irrigation farm management practices for sustainable livelihoods in Africa: the Ghanaian experience
The contribution of farming to food security, nutrition, employment and poverty alleviation in Africa cannot be overemphasised. This paper analysed …
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Effect of marine protected areas and macroeconomic environment on meat consumption in SEAFO countries
Livestock production and consumption of meat are significant contributors to today’s most serious environmental problems and global warming. This paper …
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Impact of dairy hubs on smallholder welfare: empirical evidence from Kenya
This paper identifies the factors that affect farmers’ decision to participate in a dairy hub. It also examines the impacts …
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Impact of off-farm activities on technical efficiency: evidence from maize producers of eastern Ethiopia
This article analyzes the impact of participation in off-farm activities on technical efficiency of maize production in eastern Ethiopia. We …
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Assessing the role of market integration in the consumption of traditional foods in Benin: a joint price instability coefficient and diet composition approach
Globalization-driven food trade policies and the transformations of food regimes have led to modernizing food habits and the growing substitution …
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Gender differences in willingness to pay for capital-intensive agricultural technologies: the case of fish solar tent dryers in Malawi
Gender differences in fish processors’ willingness to pay for a group-owned fish solar tent dryer (FSTD) are being assessed by …
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Determinants of honey producer market outlet choice in Chena District, southern Ethiopia: a multivariate probit regression analysis
Marketing outlets choice is one of the most important farm household decisions to sell their produce and has a great …
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Consumption intensity of leafy African indigenous vegetables: towards enhancing nutritional security in rural and urban dwellers in Kenya
Estimation of consumption intensity of African indigenous vegetables (AIVs) is important to understand how their utilization can be enhanced at …
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Predicting minimum tillage adoption among smallholder farmers using micro-level and policy variables
Minimum tillage combined with mulching (MTM) is critical to conservation agriculture, yet its use by smallholder farmers raises challenging questions …
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The impact of agricultural cooperatives membership on the wellbeing of smallholder farmers: empirical evidence from eastern Ethiopia
This study evaluated the impact of agricultural cooperative membership on the wellbeing of smallholder farmers using cross-sectional data collected from …
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Effects of local institutions on the adoption of agroforestry innovations: evidence of farmer managed natural regeneration and its implications for rural livelihoods in the Sahel
The present study aims at (1) assessing how the existing local formal and informal institutions affect farmer managed natural regeneration …