Essays about: "Smallholders"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 76 essays containing the word Smallholders.

  1. 21. Sustainability evaluation : challenges smallholding coffee farmers confronting in Colombia

    University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för naturvetenskap och teknik

    Author : Ida Stolt Althén; [2019]
    Keywords : Sustainable agriculture; Smallholders; Coffee; SAFA; Participatory evaluation;

    Abstract : Smallholding coffee farmers in Colombia face many obstacles to satisfy their needs due to a changed climate, a low coffee price and the lack of saved financial capital, that in turns creates a vulnerability to unpredictable events. An increased sustainability in those smallholding systems could therefore be crucial. READ MORE

  3. 22. Agricultural Agglomeration Infrastructure and Agricultural market integration for emergent farmers

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Nikolaj Tetzlaff; [2019]
    Keywords : Spatial Economics; Infrastructure; Economic Development; Agricultural Transformation; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This thesis seeks to explain constraining effects of distance to markets on agricultural smallholder’s ability to commercialise, using Zambia as a case. Despite a growing consensus that inaccessible markets constrain the development of broad-based agricultural growth, creating socio-economic regional disparities, the exact nature by which distance and market access interact with agricultural producers remains under-examined. READ MORE

  4. 23. Whole farm technical efficiency : the case of Ethiopian smallholders: time-variant stochastic frontier model

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

    Author : Astewale Bimr Melaku; [2018]
    Keywords : smallholder farmers; technical efficiency; time-variant; Ethiopia;

    Abstract : This study uses a time-varying random-effects stochastic frontier model to estimate level of whole farm technical efficiency using 3,465 observations of sample smallholder farmers located in Tigray, Amhara, Oromia, and Southern Nation and Nationalities (SNNP) regions of Ethiopia. A baseline econometric analysis has been done by employing Corrected Ordinary Least Square (COLS) and cross-section data models prior to the panel data model analysis as a robustness check. READ MORE

  5. 24. The Role of the National Institutional Framework for Land Tenure on Contract-Farming Public-Private Partnerships in Malawi: a Case Study of Two Sugarcane Outgrower Schemes

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Eleanor Grace Annie Hinde; [2017]
    Keywords : contract farming; public-private partnerships; outgrower schemes; inclusivity; land tenure policy; agricultural development initiatives; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Public-private partnerships (PPPs) as a form of contract farming are increasing in number across Sub-Saharan Africa; providing a potential solution to the threat of food insecurity and stimulant of economic growth. Yet, the perceived extent to which the operations of contract-farming PPPs include original smallholders – inclusivity - is often questioned. READ MORE

  6. 25. Liberalising into poverty? : a GTAP analysis of the SADC EPA

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

    Author : Tatjana Döbeling; [2017]
    Keywords : Economic Partnership Agreement; SADC; Southern Africa; GTAP; state budget; current account; regional trade; infant industry; agriculture; subsistence farming;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to test the concerns about the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the EU and six southern African countries, based on a policy simulation with the GTAP-Model. As with other EPAs, opponents worried about the state budgets, the current accounts, the regional trade, the agricultural sector and the industry. READ MORE