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1 Holden, S. T.; Joseph, L. O. 1991. Farmer participatory research and agroforestry development - A case study from northern Zambia. Agricultural Systems, 36(2):173-189.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H09499)
2 Shiferaw, B.; Holden, S. T.. 1997. A farm household analysis of resource use and conservation decisions of smallholders: An application to highland farmers in Ethiopia. Unpublished discussion paper. Agricultural University of Norway. Department of Economics and Social Sciences. 28p. (Discussion paper, D-03/1997)
Agricultural economics ; Small scale systems ; Farmers ; Labor ; Resource management ; Decision making ; Credit ; Households ; Soil degradation ; Models ; Erosion ; Fertilizers ; Crop production ; Productivity / Ethiopia
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 6007 Record No: H029949)
3 Shiferaw, B.; Holden, S. T.. 1996. Resource degradation and adoption of land conservation technologies by smallholders in the Ethiopian highlands: A study in Andit Tid, North Shewa. Discussion paper D-31/1996, Department of Economics and Social Sciences of the Agricultural University of Norway. 29p.
Models ; Soil conservation ; Soil degradation ; Erosion ; Land management ; Small scale systems ; Technology ; Case studies ; Livestock ; Households ; Farmers / Ethiopia / North Shewa / Andit Tid
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 6016 Record No: H030067)
4 Shiferaw, B.; Holden, S. T.. 1997. Analysis of economic incentives for soil conservation: The case of highland peasant households in Ethiopia. Discussion paper D-09/1997, Department of Economics and Social Sciences of the Agricultural University of Norway. 28p.
Soil degradation ; Soil conservation ; Rural economy ; Policy ; Case studies ; Farms ; Households ; Erosion ; Models ; Labor ; Price policy ; Poverty / Ethiopia
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 6017 Record No: H030068)
5 Shiferaw, B.; Holden, S. T.. 2001. Farm-level benefits to investments for mitigating land degradation: Empirical evidence from Ethiopia. Environment and Development Economics, 6:335-358.
Soil conservation ; Farmers ; Soil degradation ; Erosion ; Cost benefit analysis ; Land management ; Policy / Ethiopia
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 6884 Record No: H034837)
6 Holden, S. T.. 2005. Bioeconomic modelling for natural resource management impact assessment. In Shiferaw, B.; Freeman, H. A.; Swinton, S. M. (Eds.). Natural resources management in agriculture: methods for assessing economic and environmental impacts. Wallingford, UK: CABI. pp.175-196.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 338.1 G000 SHI Record No: H040982)
7 Shiferaw, B.; Holden, S. T.. 2005. Assessing the economic and environmental impacts of conservation technologies: a farm-level bioeconomic modelling approach. In Shiferaw, B.; Freeman, H. A.; Swinton, S. M. (Eds.). Natural resources management in agriculture: methods for assessing economic and environmental impacts. Wallingford, UK: CABI. pp.269-294.
Crop production ; Livestock ; Labor ; Households ; Income ; Erosion ; Models ; Environmental effects / Ethiopia
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 338.1 G000 SHI Record No: H040985)
8 Holden, S. T.; Lofgren, H. 2005. Assessing the impacts of natural resource management policy interventions with a village general equilibrium model. In Shiferaw, B.; Freeman, H. A.; Swinton, S. M. (Eds.). Natural resources management in agriculture: methods for assessing economic and environmental impacts. Wallingford, UK: CABI. pp.295-318.
Natural resources management ; Policy ; Models ; Rural economy ; Villages ; Households ; Land degradation ; Price policy ; Fertilizers / Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 338.1 G000 SHI Record No: H040986)
9 Gebregziabher, Gebrehaweria; Holden, S. T.. 2011. Distress rentals and the land rental market as a safety net: contract choice evidence from Tigray, Ethiopia. Agricultural Economics, 42(Supplement):675-690. [doi: https://doi.org/ 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2011.00551.x]
Food shortages ; Households ; Income ; Models ; Agricultural production ; Sharecropping ; Crop production ; Shock ; Risks ; Rent / Ethiopia / Tigray
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H044264)
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Rural households in the semiarid Northern Ethiopian highlands are net buyers of food. Crop failure due to erratic and unpredictable rainfall occurs frequently and leads to food shortages and income shocks. The renting out of land may be one of the coping responses of households exposed to shocks.We developed a theoretical household model for poor landlord households capturing their contract choice response to downside production shocks. We tested econometrically whether contract choice may depend on poverty, capital constraints, production risk and random shocks. The multinomial logit model estimates show that poor households experiencing random shocks are more likely to choose fixed-rent contracts as a distress response to shocks, suggesting that fixed-rent contracts may be used to meet immediate needs, but at the expense of future incomes. We also found that fixed-rent contracts are preferred when ex ante production risk is low, while sharecropping is more likely where production risk is high. Finally, we found an indication that the choice of a fixed-rent contract as a coping response to shocks comes as a last resort after all other means of coping are exhausted.
10 Gebru, M.; Holden, S. T.; Alfnes, F. 2021. Adoption analysis of agricultural technologies in the semiarid northern Ethiopia: a panel data analysis. Agricultural and Food Economics, 9:12. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40100-021-00184-6]
Agriculture ; Technology ; Semiarid zones ; Cash crops ; Eragrostis tef ; Wheat ; Drought tolerance ; Market access ; Smallholders ; Farmers ; Population ; Rain ; Risk ; Households ; Models / Ethiopia / Tigray
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050330)
https://agrifoodecon.springeropen.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s40100-021-00184-6.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050330.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050330.pdf
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Agricultural technology change is required in developing countries to increase the robustness to climate-related variability, feed a growing population, and create opportunities for market-oriented production. This study investigates technological change in the form of adoption of improved wheat, drought-tolerant teff, and cash crops in the semiarid Tigray region in northern Ethiopia. We analyze three rounds of panel data collected from smallholder farms in 2005/2006, 2009/2010, and 2014/2015 with a total sample of 1269 households. Double-hurdle models are used to assess how the likelihood (first hurdle) and intensity of technology adoption (second hurdle) are affected by demographic, weather, and market factors. The results indicate that few smallholders have adopted the new crops; those that have adopted the crops only plant small shares of their land with the new crops, and that there has been only a small increase in adoption over the 10-year period. Furthermore, we found that high population density is positively associated with the adoption of improved wheat, and previous period’s rainfall is positively associated with the adoption of drought-tolerant teff. The adoption of cash crops is positively associated with landholding size and access to irrigation. The policy implications of these results are that the government should increase the improved wheat diffusion efforts in less dense population areas, make sure that drought-tolerant teff seed is available and affordable after droughts, and promote irrigation infrastructure for production of cash crops.
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