SUA IR Home
→
College of Economics and Business Studies
→
Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness
→
Articles, Conference and Workshop Papers Collection
→
Browsing Articles, Conference and Workshop Papers Collection by Issue Date

Browsing Articles, Conference and Workshop Papers Collection by Issue Date

Now showing items 1-20 of 133

Gender again -views of female agricultural Extension officers by smallholder farmers in Tanzania

Due, Jean M.; Magayane, Flavianus; Temu, Anna A. (Elsevier Science Ltd, 1997)

Tanzania attempts to have a village extension officer (VEO) in every village; until recent years most of the VEOs were male. Research indicated that male VEOs did not often visit female farmers and male farmers frequently ...
Affecting the adoption of rain water harvesting technologies in western Pare lowlands of Tanzania

Mdoe, N.S.Y.; Hatibu, N.; Mahoo, H.; Gowing, J.; Senkondo, E.M.M (1998)

4,d.oPtion,oj. tech,!ology.is an importantfactor in economic development especia.lly.' in developing fountries~ s.ucc,essful introduction of technologies in d~eloping countries requires an understanding gf .the prioriti~s ...
A Small Push Goes a Long Way: Farmers' Participation in Rainwater Harvesting Technology Development

Lazaro, E.A.; Senkondo, E.M.M.; Bakari, A.; Kishebuka, S.R.; Kajiru, G.J. (1999)

Farmer partieipation in decision making at various phases of project implementation contributes very.highly to project success. The Soil-Water Management Research Programme (SWMRP) has gained valuable experience in the ...
Market liberalisation, vertical integration and price behaviour in Tanzania’s coffee auction

Temu, Anna A.; Winter-Nelson, Alex; Garcia, Philip (Blackwell Publishers, 2001)

Whether market liberalisation can promote agricultural development in Africa depends on how well existing institutions can facilitate trade by private agents. This article assesses the performance of the Tanzania ...
Institutional adjustment and transaction costs: product and inputs markets in the Tanzanian coffee system

Winter-Nelson, Alex; Temu, Anna (Elsevier Science Ltd, 2002)

Commodity market liberalization can improve incentives for production of export crops by reducing the total costs of transforming products through space, form and time, or by reducing the costs of arranging and completing ...
Moving from sectoral to integrated water resources management in Tanzania: the challenges and opportunities

Kadigi, R.M. J. (Sokoine University of Agriculture, 2003)

As in many other countries of Southern Africa, the conventional approach to water resources management in Tanzania has generally suffered from the syndrome of lack of recognition of multi- sectoral water uses and linkages. ...
The impact of market reforms on spatial volatility of maize price in Tanzania

Kilima, T. M.; Chung, C.; Kenkel, P.; Mbiha, E. (Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2004)

The impacts of market reforms on the volatility of agricultural prices in developing countries have not been well understood because economic theory does not provide a concrete basis for predicting the effects of reforms ...
Optimal fertilizer warehousing and distribution systems for farm supply cooperatives

Kenkel, P.; Kilima, F. (NCR-194 Research on Cooperatives, 2004)

Fertilizer sales and appli cation services are important business areas for farm supply cooperatives. These firms account for roughly one-third of the $800M, which U.S. producers paid for fertilizer, lime and soil ...
Impacts of prices and transactions costs on input usage in a liberalizing economy: evidence from Tanzanian coffee growers

Winter-Nelson, Alex; Temu, Anna (2004-06-15)

Despite improvements in production incentives, agricultural output in Africa remained sluggish through the 1990s. Low use of purchased inputs may be part of the cause of persistently low productivity in African agriculture. ...
Adaptive techniques for Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert equation with magnetostriction

Baˇnas∗, L’ubomír (Elsevier, 2005-08-25)

In this paper we propose a time–space adaptive method for micromagnetic problems with magnetostriction. The considered model consists of coupled Maxwell’s, Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert (LLG) and elastodynamic equations. The ...
Are price changes in the world market transmitted to markets in less developed countries? A case study of sugar, cotton, wheat, and rice in Tanzania

Kilima, F. T. M. (IIIS, 2006)

This paper investigates the extent to which world market price changes are transmitted through changes in border prices into local producer prices for four agricultural product markets in Tanzania: sugar, cotton, wheat ...
Drawing on collective arrangements and social networks: a coping strategy for the poor households in the great Ruaha catchment, Tanzania

Kadigi, Reuben M. J.; Mdoe, N.S.Y.; Mahoo, H.F.; Ashimogo, G.C.; Tumbo, S. (SUA, 2007)

Access to water and land resources underpins the socio-economic fabric of many societies in the Southern Africa region, which is characterized broadly as underdeveloped with widespread food insecurity, exacerbated by ...
Effects of food safety standards on the livelihoods of actors in the nile perch value chain in Tanzania

Kadigi, Reuben M. J.; Mdoe, Ntengua S.Y.; Senkondo, Ephraim; Mpenda, Zena (Copenhagen, 2007)

Exports of non-traditional products from developing to developed countries have increased rapidly over the past two decades. However, one of the major challenges facing developing countries in seeking to maintain and ...
The spice industry in Tanzania: general profile, supply chain structure, and food standards compliance issues

Akyoo, A.; Lazaro, E. (Danish Institute for International Studies, DIIS, 2007)

The fall in the agricultural sector’s contribution to Tanzanian export earnings since the early 1990s has increased attention toward new crops with the potential of supplementing the country’s traditional export crops. ...
Rapid appraisal of policies &institutional frameworks for agricultural water management

Unknown author ((IMAWESA), 2007-11)

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The purpose of the country study was to investigate how policies or institutional frameworks affected or would have affected agricultural water management (AWM) programmes or projects between 1985 ...
Institutional capacity for standards conformity assessment: a case study on spices in Tanzania

Akyoo, A.; Lazaro, E. (Copenhagen 2008 Danish Institute for International Studies, DIIS, 2008)

Local capacity for standards conformity assessment is an important component in accessing export markets. In theory, it will lead to lowered compliance costs on the part of local exporters. Moreover, it may provide local ...
An accounting method-based cost-benefit analysis of conformity to certified organic standards for spices in Tanzania

Akyoo, A.; Lazaro, E. (Copenhagen 2008 Danish Institute for International Studies, DIIS, 2008)

Certified organic farming has emerged as a market channel providing participating African small- holders with access to high value markets in the EU. The benefits may include not only a guaranteed produce market, but ...
The capacity of on-farm research in reducing poverty: Experiences from twenty seven projects in Tanzania

Tarimo, A. J. P.; Johnsen, F. H.; Nchimbi-Msolla, S.; Mbaga, S.; Kilima, F. T. M.; Sesabo, J.; Abdallah, J. M.; Iranga, G. (Tanzania J.Agric.Sc, 2008)

Poverty can be categorized into income poverty and non-income poverty. At the smallscale Jarmers level income poverty results Jrom low productivity oj agricultural enterprises. hence low sales oj products. On the other ...
Sustainability standards and coffee exports from Tanzania

Lazaro, E. A.; Makindara, J.; Kilima, T. M. (DIIS · DANISH INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, 2008)

One of the key trends characterizing agro-food trade in the last two decades has been the increas-ing complexity of public and private standards that are applied to imports into developed coun-tries. This paper aims to ...
Consumer preferences for quality characteristics along the cowpea value chain in Nigeria, Ghana and Mali

Mishili, Fulgence Joseph; Fulton, Joan; Shehu, Musa; Kushwaha, Saket; Marfo, Kofi; Jamal, Mustafa; Kergna, Alpha; Lowenberg-DeBoer, J. (Wiley InterScience, 2009)

The production and trade of cowpea is a growing business in West Africa. But a better understanding of consumer preferences is essential to market development. The objective of the study was to determine the impact of ...

Browsing Articles, Conference and Workshop Papers Collection by Issue Date

Browsing Articles, Conference and Workshop Papers Collection by Issue Date

Search SUA IR

Browse

All of SUA IR

This Collection

My Account