|
|
|
| Registros recuperados: 1,065 | |
|
| |
|
|
| Bizimana, Claude; Nieuwoudt, W. Lieb; Ferrer, Stuart R.D.. |
| Butare, where this study was conducted, exhibits one of the highest population densities in Rwanda. As a direct result of population growth, most peasants have small fields and land fragmentation is common. The purpose of this article is to examine the effect of land fragmentation on economic efficiency. Regression analysis shows that area operated is primarily determined by the population-land ratio, non-agricultural employment opportunities, ownership certainty and adequate information through agricultural training. Results from a block-recursive regression analysis indicate that the level of net farm income per hectare, which indirectly reflects greater economic efficiency, is determined by the area operated, use of farm information, field extension... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Productivity Analysis. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/9489 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
| Palomares, Rafaela Dios. |
| This study investigated the efficiency and productivity change of a sample of food distribution units (MERCAs) in Spain over the 1.997-1.999 period, applying non-parametric frontier methodology in a sales efficiency framework. We specified a mean sales model composed of two blocks of variables, the production block, and the marketing management block. Then we applied output oriented DEA methodology to perform the efficiency analysis, also taking into account the overall efficiency decomposition into pure and scale efficiency. The Malmquist index was calculated in order to analyse the components of the productivity change. The mean pure sales efficiency index was high, around 0.8, the mean scale index being 0,9. As appears from the results, six food... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Efficiency; Productivity; DEA method; Malmquist index; Food Distribution Unit; Productivity Analysis. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24828 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
| Horobet, Alexandra; Dumitrescu, Sorin; Joldes, Cosmin. |
| The purpose of this paper is to provide an understanding of corporate risk management practices in Romanian companies, by investigating the risk management approaches Romanian companies take. Our main findings are that Romanian managers are not aware of the magnitude of exposure their companies have to various types of risk – hazard, operational, financial and strategic risks, while they are able to manage rather well all these risks, even the ones that have the lowest impact on the business. At the same time, risk management systems employed by Romanian companies are rather inarticulate and based on traditional approaches towards risk management, which might represent by itself a major source of risk, given the complexity of the business environment they... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Corporate risk assessment; Risk management; Romania; Agricultural and Food Policy; Productivity Analysis; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/53574 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
| Chen, Adam Zhuo; Huffman, Wallace E.; Rozelle, Scott. |
| This article examines technical efficiency of the Chinese grain sector using the framework of stochastic production frontier. The results reveal that: the marginal products of labor and fertilizer are much smaller than that of land; human capital and farm-level specialization have positive effect on efficiency, land fragmentation is detrimental to efficiency, and elder farmers are as efficient as younger farmers. We also examine the effects of size, mechanization and geographic location. Simulation results show that significant output gains can be obtained by eliminating land fragmentation, improving rural education and promoting specialization and mechanization. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Crop Production/Industries; Productivity Analysis. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22116 |
| |
|
|
| Fogarasi, Jozsef; Latruffe, Laure. |
| The paper investigates the difference in technical efficiency, productivity and technology between French and Hungarian dairy farms, in 2001 and 2002, using Data Envelopment Analysis with separate and a common frontier. Results indicate that Hungarian farmers are more clustered to their own frontier than French farms are, but French farms are, on the other hand, more scale efficient. Both samples have increased their productivity between both years, with a higher technological change for Hungary. Comparing the technology of both countries reveals that Hungarian farms have a superior technology. Under a common hypothetical technology, Hungarian farms would be the leaders but French farms would nevertheless succeed in increasing their productivity as much as... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Productivity Analysis. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/9432 |
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
| Asogwa, B.C.; Umeh, Joseph Chinedu; Ater, P.I.. |
| This study analyzed relationship between techn ical efficiency and socio-economic variables of cassava farmers in Nigeria. Data were collected from randomly sampled 360 cassava farmers in Nigeria using a structured questionnaire. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics comprising mean, minimum value, maximum value and standard deviation, as well as inferential statistics, which comprised correlation and regression. The findings of the s tudy indicated that a significant relationship exists between technical efficiency and cassava output (0.542), farm income (0.612), processing cost (- 0.414), gari yield (0.608), gross margin (0.483), farming experience (0.278), education (0.699) and extension contact (0.585) of the sampled cassava farmers in... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Technical efficiency; Nigerian cassava farmers; Food security policy; Crop Production/Industries; Food Security and Poverty; Productivity Analysis. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25473 |
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
| Adelaja, Adesoji O.. |
| To examine productivity growth in New Jersey's food-processing sector, this study conducts a joint analysis of total and partial factor productivity indexes. Results indicate growing material intensity, declining labor and capital intensities, and relatively slow material productivity growth. However, due to the high cost share of material inputs, material productivity growth contributed more to total factor productivity growth than did growth in the productivity of any other input. In fact, almost half of the growth in overall productivity is attributed to material productivity growth. Results also suggest that the 1973 decline in total factor productivity was characterized by greater decline in material productivity than in the productivities of... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Productivity Analysis. |
| Ano: 1992 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28852 |
| |
| Registros recuperados: 1,065 | |
|
|
|
