Technology adoption has been seen as key to the development of more productive agriculture in lesser developed countries. But the adoption and adaptation of new agricultural technology occurs at the level of farm families where decisions are made based on perceived risks and ben…
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In the last half century, there has been a remarkable expansion in the rate and scale of dam construction worldwide. Many of these dams have been successful in providing various economic benefits. However, reservoir sedimentation decreases useful capacity of dams, shortens their…
Interactions between climate variability, risk behavior and agricultural policies in Morocco are examined. The analysis employs a series of general equilibrium models that are linked together to account for risk. The model explicitly incorporates the main features of the economy…
The objective of this study is to investigate credit risk mitigating techniques adopted by Bank Perkreditan Rakyats (People Credit Banks) in Indonesia. The study found that BPRs in general use the basic and simple banking practices in order to minimize the administrative cost, a…
The success of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh has shown that it is possible to provide a large number of low income people with financial services using a group lending methodology. As a result, group lending programs funded by international donors have proliferated at a rapid p…
This dissertation uses quantitative methods from applied welfare economics to determine the economic value of environmental assets in agrarian communities of developing countries. The research topic is drawn from the interface of environmental economics and development policy. T…
This study provides (1) a set of growth and yield models and (2) two versions of harvest scheduling models for management of teak plantations in Indonesia. Growth and yield models were based on data collected from permanent plots distributed in Central and East Java. A forest di…
The objective of this study is to examine the factors affecting live cattle basis and determine the impact meat exports and imports have on the wholesale prices of different meat types. Changes in farm programs and tightening cattle feeding margins make risk management an import…
Wheat is Egypt's leading food staple and the country faces water and land constraints. Most of the domestically produced wheat is home-consumed and does not reach the market. Egypt has been the third largest wheat importer in the world and wheat imports are increasing. The Egypt…
This research examines the weak condition of pareto efficiency maintained by the unitary and collective models of the household. Farm production data collected from Senegalese households over a two-year period are used to test whether resources are allocated efficiently across m…
Like many other SSA countries, Somalia's exports performed poorly in the world market especially in the last two decades and lost some of its market shares during these period. Gulaid (1980), noted that Somalia lost some of its banana export market shares in the Italian market d…
Scope and method of study. The purposes of this study are: (1) Determination of Colombian total wheat import demand and effect of seasonality especially from the major exporters such as the United States and Canada. (2) Forecasting the United States total wheat exports to Colomb…
This dissertation describes and analyzes the efficiency of the Ethiopian grain marketing system both before and after market liberalization in 1990. Drawing upon primary and secondary data collected in the field during 1993-1995, Chapter 1 assesses how efficiently spatial trade …
This thesis attempts to trace and analyze food security in Egypt since 1952 in terms of economic and cultural features, particularly focusing on wheat. Famine has been a threatening factor in many developing countries, where a combination of natural and human factors were initia…
The main objectives of this study are to measure the regional competitiveness in the production and processing of oilseeds in Nigeria for efficient budgetary allocations to regions, and to quantify the gains from alternative external trade policies with a view to making an optim…
From the 1970s the Nigerian government shifted its agrarian policies from a focus on peasant-produced and state-marketed cash (export) crop production to mechanization, the concentration of land and food production by highly subsidized elites--mainly serving and retired top mili…
This dissertation uses aggregate production function models to analyze the efficiency of capital, labor and other political and institutional variables determining the economic growth of real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) attributable to the Nigerian agriculture sector, 1966-1985…
This study focuses on Oil Boom and World Glut: The Managerial Policy Impact on Nigerian Development and Agricultural Production. It explores the questions of policies, rural neglect, mismanagement and corruptions. It explained the question of how, despite official rhetoric, the …
Scope and method of study. The general objective is to determine if the COMMEX Malaysia crude palm oil (CPO) futures contract can be used to reduce CPO producers' risk exposure due to cash price fluctuations. The specific objectives are to evaluate the relationship between CPO's…