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	Provedor de dados AgEcon (2) Autor Okike, Iheanacho (2) Ehui, Simeon K. (1) Spycher, Ben (1) Williams, Timothy O. (1) Palavra-chave Africa (1) Agriculture (1) C21 (1) D4 (1) Farmer (1) Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety (1) Food Security and Poverty (1) Health Economics and Policy (1) Hedonic price model (1) Livestock Production/Industries (1) Livestock markets (1) Market information (1) Millenium Development Goals (1) Q13 (1) Q17 (1) West Africa (1) Mais... Tipo do documento Conference Paper or Presentation (2) Ano 2008 (1) 2006 (1) País United States (2) Idioma Inglês (2)		Ordenar por:  Relevância Autor Título Ano Registros recuperados: 2 Primeira ... 1 ... Última A Hedonic Analysis of Cattle Prices in the Central Corridor of West Africa: Implications for Production and Marketing Decisions AgEcon Williams, Timothy O.; Okike, Iheanacho; Spycher, Ben. Detailed weekly sales transactions data for the period January 2000-June 2001 from three frontier markets in the central corridor of West Africa were analyzed to identify the factors influencing short-run, intra-year cattle prices. The empirical results indicate that in addition to market location and seasonality of supply and sales, market participants show systemic preferences for specific cattle attributes (sex, weight, condition and finish) and are willing to pay premium prices consistent with their preferences. Communicating this information to producers can assist them to tailor their production and marketing decisions to meet market expectations and thereby improve their competitiveness, profitability and intra-regional livestock trade. Innovative... Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation Palavras-chave: Livestock markets; Hedonic price model; Market information; West Africa; Livestock Production/Industries; C21; D4; Q13; Q17. Ano: 2006 URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25423 Foreign Development Assistance to Agriculture and Food Security in Africa in the last Decade: Lessons for Tomorrow AgEcon Ehui, Simeon K.; Okike, Iheanacho. There are well-founded fears that it is unrealistic to expect Africa to achieve the Millennium Development Goal 1 (MDG1) to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger and to halve the proportion of people who suffer hunger by 2015. Recent efforts of African governments to meet the MDG1 have resulted in a number of initiatives including the Comprehensive African Agricultural Development Programme (CAADP) framework that calls for 6% agricultural growth rates, the Maputo Declaration calling for 10% of total public spending to be on agriculture, and the 2006 Abuja Declaration calling for an increase in fertilizer use from 8 – 50 kg/ha by 2015. CAADP estimates that an average investment of US$18 billion/year will be required to trigger sufficient agricultural... Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation Palavras-chave: Africa; Millenium Development Goals; Agriculture; Farmer; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy. Ano: 2008 URL: http://purl.umn.edu/52204 Registros recuperados: 2 Primeira ... 1 ... Última

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