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	Provedor de dados AgEcon (2) Autor Ater, P.I. (2) Umeh, Joseph Chinedu (2) Asogwa, B.C. (1) Lawal, W.L. (1) Palavra-chave Crop Production/Industries (2) Food Security and Poverty (2) Discriminant Function (1) Food security policy (1) Nigerian cassava farmers (1) Poverty Reduction programme valued output (1) Productivity Analysis (1) Technical efficiency (1) World Bank (1) Mais... Tipo do documento Conference Paper or Presentation (2) Ano 2006 (2) País United States (2) Idioma Inglês (2)		Ordenar por:  Relevância Autor Título Ano Registros recuperados: 2 Primeira ... 1 ... Última Comparative Analysis of the Impact of World Bank Root and Tuber Expansion Programme on Poverty Alleviation of Peri-Urban and Rural Communities in Benue State, Nigeria AgEcon Ater, P.I.; Umeh, Joseph Chinedu; Lawal, W.L.. This study examined in 2005 t he impact of World Bank Expanded Programme for Root and Tuber Production (RTEP) on the poverty alleviation of peri-urban and rural communities in Benue State, Nigeria. It aimed at delineating causal effect disparity in poverty alleviation of two major producer communities. Data were collected from two hundred and eight (208) respondent s randomly drawn from ten (10) typically rural and ten (10) peri-urban communities. Simple descriptive statistics (percentages) and discriminant function analysis were used to analyze the collected data. The discriminant function was fitted on the poverty alleviation score to analyze causal and effect relationship. The study found disparities in valued output, quality of life, income and a... Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation Palavras-chave: World Bank; Poverty Reduction programme valued output; Discriminant Function; Crop Production/Industries; Food Security and Poverty. Ano: 2006 URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25484 Technical Efficiency Analysis of Nigerian Cassava Farmers: A Guide for Food Security Policy AgEcon 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 Registros recuperados: 2 Primeira ... 1 ... Última

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