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Health and environmental effects of adopting an integrated fruit fly management strategy among mango farmers in Kenya 肯尼亚芒果种植者采用果蝇综合管理战略对健康和环境的影响

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African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics-AFJARE Pub Date : 2020-03-30 DOI: 10.53936/afjare.2020.15(1).02

C. M. Mwungu, B. Muriithi, V. Ngeno, H. Affognon, C. Githiomi, G. Diiro, S. Ekesi

引用次数: 7

Does agricultural diversification build economic resilience to drought and flood? Evidence from poor households in Zambia 农业多样化能增强经济对干旱和洪水的抵御能力吗?来自赞比亚贫困家庭的证据

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African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics-AFJARE Pub Date : 2020-03-30 DOI: 10.53936/afjare.2020.15(1).05

S. Chonabayashi, Theepakorn Jithitikulchai, YeQing Qu

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引用次数: 10

Heterogeneous demand for soybean quality 大豆品质需求的异质性

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African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics-AFJARE Pub Date : 2020-03-01 DOI: 10.53936/afjare.2020.15(1).03

Edward Martey, P. Goldsmith

{"title":"Heterogeneous demand for soybean quality","authors":"Edward Martey, P. Goldsmith","doi":"10.53936/afjare.2020.15(1).03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53936/afjare.2020.15(1).03","url":null,"abstract":"Agricultural commercialisation is a critical pathway for economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, the lack of market information may impede this development. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first paper to examine market information and preferences for soybean quality in a developing-world context. We seek to understand the nature of information markets associated with the nascent soybean trade in Sub-Saharan Africa in order to inform the market and policy of previously unknown key marketing information. The research involves a discrete choice experiment with 228 buyers of soybean involving five key soybean quality attributes. The sample represents three distinct classes of buyer/traders: wholesalers, processors and retailers. Traders significantly discount the price of soybean attributes such as off-colour, small grain size, low oil levels and high contamination with foreign material, such as stones. Foreign material ranks highest of the attributes that we examined, in terms of the discount level, at 22%. The study finds significant preference heterogeneity among traders, explained partly by the socioeconomic and trade characteristics of the respondents. We identified three distinct classes of traders per the latent class logit (LCL) results, namely ‘high price discounters’, ‘big bean supporters’, and ‘oil sceptics’. Our findings improve soybean market information, transparency and signalling. This will lead farmers to be more efficient and allow policymakers to understand better how the market actually prices grain at the farm gate.","PeriodicalId":45228,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics-AFJARE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48248029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 5

Labour contracts and performance of cocoa farms in Mbam and Kim in Cameroon 喀麦隆Mbam和Kim可可农场的劳动合同和业绩

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African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics-AFJARE Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.22004/AG.ECON.307623

André Nso Ngang, C. Kamdem, Christian Bernard Kaldjob Mbeh, P. Pédelahore, D. Onana, Joephine Mireille Akoa Etoa

引用次数: 0

Impact of women's share of income on household expenditure in southeast Nigeria. 尼日利亚东南部妇女收入份额对家庭支出的影响。

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African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics-AFJARE Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.22004/AG.ECON.307616

P. Opata, A. Ezeibe, Chukwuma Otum Ume

引用次数: 5

Segmenting the urban market of local rice in Benin: An analysis using the cluster classification method 贝宁当地大米城市市场分割:基于聚类分类方法的分析

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African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics-AFJARE Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.22004/AG.ECON.307612

R. Fiamohe

引用次数: 0

Barriers to trade in Sub-Saharan Africa food markets 撒哈拉以南非洲粮食市场的贸易壁垒

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African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics-AFJARE Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.22004/AG.ECON.284958

Patrick L. Hatzenbuehler

{"title":"Barriers to trade in Sub-Saharan Africa food markets","authors":"Patrick L. Hatzenbuehler","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.284958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.284958","url":null,"abstract":"This continent-wide review of studies on price transmission implemented for the global, regional cross-border, within-country urban and within-country rural market segments provides a broad overview of current conditions in Sub-Saharan Africa food markets and provides insights into how market development varies across regions and crops. The review focuses on barriers to trade, both those related to policy and those related to general market development. Observations in the reviewed studies show that there are several long-run and short-run factors that have inhibited, and currently inhibit, food trade in the analysed markets. The long-run factors are related to general market development, such as imperfect substitutability between imported and domestic produce and infrastructure deficiencies. Short-run factors include intermittent changes in trade and/or tax policy and changes in self-sufficiency status. In only a few cases were no barriers to trade identified, and these were for highly traded foods between markets within countries. Since tradability is an indicator of market development, greater policymaker and donor partner attention is needed to remove barriers to trade, especially for foods that are efficiently produced domestically but do not yet have a welldeveloped domestic or international market.","PeriodicalId":45228,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics-AFJARE","volume":"14 1","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68535200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 4

Seasonality, food prices and dietary choices of vulnerable households: A case study of nutritional resilience in Tanzania 季节性、食品价格和弱势家庭的饮食选择:坦桑尼亚营养恢复力案例研究

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African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics-AFJARE Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.22004/AG.ECON.301042

Achilana Mtingele, D. O’Connor

{"title":"Seasonality, food prices and dietary choices of vulnerable households: A case study of nutritional resilience in Tanzania","authors":"Achilana Mtingele, D. O’Connor","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.301042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.301042","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines how food prices and related seasonality factors affect the dietary choices of low-income farm households in rural Tanzania. The Kishapu and Mvomero districts were selected based on contrasting rainfall patterns, farming practices and economic activities. Data were collected before and after harvest in 2014, using household surveys, focus group discussions, key informant interviews and monthly market-price surveys. A linear-programming solution provides a choice-diet bundle of food items, given model constraints. The cost of the choice diet was compared with household incomes to determine diet affordability. Cheaper, more energy-dense foods lacking other nutrients were consumed at lower budgets in both seasons. Policies and strategies to address problems of the high cost of nutritious foods should be considered to enable low-income households to consume affordable but nutritious diets. Moreover, strategies and interventions that can influence behaviour and promote awareness are important for better household nutrition through a suitably balanced diet of available foods.","PeriodicalId":45228,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics-AFJARE","volume":"14 1","pages":"202-218"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68537241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

Smallholders’ agricultural commercialisation, food crop yield and poverty reduction: Evidence from rural Burkina Faso 小农农业商业化、粮食作物产量和减贫:来自布基纳法索农村的证据

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African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics-AFJARE Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.22004/AG.ECON.284988

S. A. Ouédraogo

引用次数: 4

Farmers’ perceptions of climate change and farm-level adaptation strategies: Evidence from Bassila in Benin 农民对气候变化和农场层面适应战略的看法:来自贝宁Bassila的证据

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African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics-AFJARE Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.284991

Achille A. Diencere

引用次数: 7