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| Abdoulaye, Tahirou; Sanders, John H.. |
| New technology introduction in this semiarid region of the Sahel is hypothesized to be made more difficult by three price problems in the region. First, staple prices collapse annually at harvest. Secondly, there is a between year price collapse in good and very good years due to the inelastic demand for the principal staple, millet, and the large changes in supply from weather and other stochastic factors. Thirdly, government and NGOs intervene in adverse rainfall years to drive down the price increases. Marketing strategies were proposed for the first two price problems and a public policy change for the third. To analyze this question at the firm level a farm programming model was constructed. Based upon surveying in four countries, including Niger,... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy; Marketing. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28670 |
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| Pender, John L.; Abdoulaye, Tahirou; Ndjeunga, Jupiter; Gerard, Bruno; Edward, Kato. |
| This study investigates the impacts of access to inventory credit (warrantage), input supply shops, fertilizer micro-dosing demonstrations, and other factors on farmers' use of inorganic and organic fertilizer in Niger, and the impacts on crop yields. We find that access to warrantage and input shops and participation in fertilizer micro-dosing demonstrations have increased use of inorganic fertilizer. Access to off-farm employment and ownership of traction animals also contribute to use of inorganic fertilizer. Use of organic fertilizer is less affected by these factors, but is substantially affected by the household's crop mix, access to the plot, ownership of durable assets, labor and land endowments, and participation in farmers' associations. Land... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Crop Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25643 |
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| Olarinde, Luke O.; Binam, Joachim; Abdoulaye, Tahirou; Maman, Nouri; Adekunle, Adewale A.. |
| This paper approaches the soil and water management (SWMGT) adoption estimation from the perspective of the modern evaluation theory. As a result, the analytical procedure adopted for the study follows the Average Treatment Effect (ATE) estimation framework. The data gathered for the analysis are part of the baseline data collected from a sample of 572 households in 20 villages in Maradi (Niger Republic) and katsina (Nigeria). Results show that about 45 percent of the respondents have adopted the soil and water management (SWMGT) practices, out of 398 (70%) households that had knowledge or were aware of the SWMGT options. The joint exposure and adoption rates from three different models have been estimated at 39%. Results for joint exposure and adoption... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/95983 |
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| Abdoulaye, Tahirou; Sanders, John H.. |
| In Niger as in most of semiarid Sub-Saharan Africa the fallow system has become a historic event as a result of increasing population pressure and has not yet been replaced with increased input use due to low product prices. As a result nutrient mining is becoming prevalent and cereals yields declining. So it is necessary to develop marketing and other strategies to increase farmers' incomes from the use of increased inputs for soil fertility especially inorganic fertilizers. In the farm model, two goals (subsistence food storage and harvest income) are first achieved, before maximizing income, in a linear programming framework with various states of nature. This is an alternative way of handling risk based on farmer's actual observed behavior. Hence this... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Marketing. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22207 |
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