Abstract:
Maize productivity, measured as the amount of output for a
given input set, is lower than it could be in Malawi due to poor
access to agricultural inputs and environmental depletion
especially declining soil fertility. Malawi is promoting
conservation agriculture in order to reverse the trend. The
overall objective of this study is to determine economic
performance of conservation agriculture in Malawi. The study
will apply a normalized translog yield response model to assess
productivity and a stochastic frontier production model (SFPM)
to assess technical efficiency (TE) of conservation agriculture
(CA). The study has just been initiated.
La productivité du maïs, mesurée comme la quantité à la
production pour un ensemble indiqué des besoins, est inférieure
à ce qu’elle pourrait être au Malawi en raison de difficultés
d’accéder aux intrants agricoles et à la dégradation
environnementale, notamment la baisse de fertilité du sol. Le
Malawi favorise l’agriculture de conservation afin d’inverser
la tendance. L’objectif global de cette étude est de déterminer
la performance économique de l’agriculture de conservation
au Malawi. L’étude appliquera un modèle normalisé de réponse
de rendement « translog » pour évaluer la productivité et un
modèle stochastique de production de frontière (SFPM) pour
évaluer l’efficacité technique (TE) de l’agriculture de
conservation (CA). L’étude a été juste lancée.
Language:
English
Date of publication:
2010
Country:
Region Focus:
Southern Africa
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Collection:
RUFORUM Conferences and Workshops
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Licence conditions:
Open Access
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Printed resource
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Extent:
1547-1550
Notes:
"The 2010 RUFORUM Biennial Conference was the second in the series. The main objective of the Biennial conferences is to provide a platform for agricultural research for development stakeholders in Africa and beyond to actively exchange findings and experiences, while at the same time learning lessons towards improving performance of the agricultural sector and ultimately people’s livelihoods. The biennial conference is RUFORUM’s most comprehensive meeting for the diversity of stakeholers in agriculture. It is especially dedicated to graduate students and their supervisors, grantees in RUFORUM member universities and alumni. It is a platform for peer review, quality control, mentorship, networking and shared learning. This record contains an extended abstract accepted under the theme socio-economics".
