Fertilizer Use by Smallholder Households in Northern Ethiopia: Does Risk Aversion Matter?

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This is a chapter in a book entitled "Agricultural Investment and Productivity: Building Sustainability in East Africa" edited by Gunnar Köhlin and Randall Bluffstone, 2011.

Agriculture, Experiments

Soil Conservation and Small Scale Food Production in Highland Ethiopia: A Stochastic Metafrontier Approach

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This is a chapter in a book entitled "Agricultural Investment and Productivity: Building Sustainability in East Africa" edited by Gunnar Köhlin and Randall Bluffstone, 2011.

This chapter aims to contribute to the literature on soil and water conservation (SWC) by decomposing productivity into technology and technical efficiency (TE) effects. A firm is said to be technically inefficient if it produces less output from a given input bundle than the maximum output that can be attained from the input bundle at the current level of technology.

Agriculture, Experiments

Factor Market Imperfections and Rural Land Rental Markets in Northern Ethiopian Highlands

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This is a chapter in a book entitled "The Emergence of Land Markets in Africa Impacts on Poverty, Equity, and Efficiency" edited by Stein Holden, Keijiro Otsuka and Frank Place, 2009.

Agriculture, Experiments, Policy Design

Sustainable and responsible investment in emerging markets: integrating environmental risks in the South African investment industry

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This article analyses the views of South African investment organizations about the likelihood of commodification of environmental
risks in their investment decision-making processes. It is based on an empirical qualitative survey of 22 investment organizations,
which are signatories to the United Nation’s Principles for Responsible Investment.

Experiments

Does Positional Concern Matter in Poor Societies? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Rural Ethiopia

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We investigate attitudes toward positionality among rural farmers in Northern Ethiopia using a survey experiment.

On average, we find very low positional concerns both for income per se and for income from aid projects. The results support the claim that positional concerns are positively correlated with absolute level of income. The implications of our results on implementation of aid projects are discussed.

 

Experiments