Indicators of poverty in western Kenya show high poverty levels. The area has low dairy developme... more Indicators of poverty in western Kenya show high poverty levels. The area has low dairy development yet the potential for dairy development is quite high. Dairy farming has the potential to reduce poverty by increasing incomes and reducing unemployment. This paper reports factor interrelationships in dairy adoption with a view to understanding factors that influence adoption. The binary probit model
En la UE se ha estimado que los costes de la congesti�n representan el 2% de su PIB y que el cost... more En la UE se ha estimado que los costes de la congesti�n representan el 2% de su PIB y que el coste de la poluci�n del aire y ruido supera el 0,6% del PIB, siendo alrededor del 90% de los mismos ocasionados por el transporte terrestre. Ante este hecho y el continuo aumento de la demanda del transporte privado frente al p�blico para los desplazamientos, muchos abogan por una conjunci�n de medidas tanto restrictivas como alternativas al uso del coche. Dentro de las primeras se encuentra el establecimiento de un peaje o una tarifa por el uso de las carreteras, medida que aunque desde el punto de vista de la Teor�a Econ�mica es la manera m�s eficiente para corregir el fallo de mercado que supone la congesti�n, desde la visi�n de pol�ticos y del p�blico no goza de gran aceptaci�n. En este trabajo se pretende hacer una simulaci�n de los efectos que tendr�a sobre el bienestar social de la implantaci�n de una medida de este tipo en la Bah�a de C�diz. In the European Union it has been estimat...
Objective: Despite policy and development focus promoting dairy intensification, dairy management... more Objective: Despite policy and development focus promoting dairy intensification, dairy management in Uganda still exhibits a continuum stretching from intensive to extensive systems. The purpose of this study was to examine farmers' risk attitudes and its effects on enterprise choices and resource use under different dairy intensification systems. Methodology and results: Longitudinal data were obtained from 14 cattle farms drawn
Better dairy production could reduce poverty and improve nutrition in western Kenya, but the requ... more Better dairy production could reduce poverty and improve nutrition in western Kenya, but the requisite technologies have not been widely adopted. This study collected dairy cow attributes from 630 households to evaluate what factors influence smallholder farmers to adopt technologies. Conjoint analysis was used to compute the marginal rate of substitution between attributes, marginal willingness to pay, and marginal willingness
This study was motivated by the realisation that although public and civil society projects inter... more This study was motivated by the realisation that although public and civil society projects interventions emphasize dairy intensification, dairy producers adopt systems that exhibit a continuum of intensification stretching from extensive to intensive levels. De-intensification of zero grazing, downgrading of herds in other grazing systems and adoption of extensive or intensive systems on farmers' own accord have been observed. The purpose of this study was to examine enterprise choices and resource allocation in different dairy systems under traditional (observed) and optimum (profit driven) scenarios. Longitudinal data used was obtained from 14 representative farms for zero grazed, tethered, herded, semi-intensive and fenced dairy systems in Masaka, Mbarara and Jinja districts. Observed and profit driven farm plans were assessed by whole-farm modeling using Linear Programming net farm benefit maximization. Results obtained show that net farm benefits were significantly higher ...
The major role played by informal milk markets in Kenya and the benefits to those associated with... more The major role played by informal milk markets in Kenya and the benefits to those associated with it are now widely acknowledged. The benefits include higher prices for farmers, income generation for the market agents and convenient delivery and lower prices for poor consumers. However, in spite of these benefits, regulations governing informal marketing of milk continue to be unfavourable
Indicators of poverty in western Kenya show high poverty levels. The area has low dairy developme... more Indicators of poverty in western Kenya show high poverty levels. The area has low dairy development yet the potential for dairy development is quite high. Dairy farming has the potential to reduce poverty by increasing incomes and reducing unemployment. This paper reports factor interrelationships in dairy adoption with a view to understanding factors that influence adoption. The binary probit model
En la UE se ha estimado que los costes de la congesti�n representan el 2% de su PIB y que el cost... more En la UE se ha estimado que los costes de la congesti�n representan el 2% de su PIB y que el coste de la poluci�n del aire y ruido supera el 0,6% del PIB, siendo alrededor del 90% de los mismos ocasionados por el transporte terrestre. Ante este hecho y el continuo aumento de la demanda del transporte privado frente al p�blico para los desplazamientos, muchos abogan por una conjunci�n de medidas tanto restrictivas como alternativas al uso del coche. Dentro de las primeras se encuentra el establecimiento de un peaje o una tarifa por el uso de las carreteras, medida que aunque desde el punto de vista de la Teor�a Econ�mica es la manera m�s eficiente para corregir el fallo de mercado que supone la congesti�n, desde la visi�n de pol�ticos y del p�blico no goza de gran aceptaci�n. En este trabajo se pretende hacer una simulaci�n de los efectos que tendr�a sobre el bienestar social de la implantaci�n de una medida de este tipo en la Bah�a de C�diz. In the European Union it has been estimat...
Objective: Despite policy and development focus promoting dairy intensification, dairy management... more Objective: Despite policy and development focus promoting dairy intensification, dairy management in Uganda still exhibits a continuum stretching from intensive to extensive systems. The purpose of this study was to examine farmers' risk attitudes and its effects on enterprise choices and resource use under different dairy intensification systems. Methodology and results: Longitudinal data were obtained from 14 cattle farms drawn
Better dairy production could reduce poverty and improve nutrition in western Kenya, but the requ... more Better dairy production could reduce poverty and improve nutrition in western Kenya, but the requisite technologies have not been widely adopted. This study collected dairy cow attributes from 630 households to evaluate what factors influence smallholder farmers to adopt technologies. Conjoint analysis was used to compute the marginal rate of substitution between attributes, marginal willingness to pay, and marginal willingness
This study was motivated by the realisation that although public and civil society projects inter... more This study was motivated by the realisation that although public and civil society projects interventions emphasize dairy intensification, dairy producers adopt systems that exhibit a continuum of intensification stretching from extensive to intensive levels. De-intensification of zero grazing, downgrading of herds in other grazing systems and adoption of extensive or intensive systems on farmers' own accord have been observed. The purpose of this study was to examine enterprise choices and resource allocation in different dairy systems under traditional (observed) and optimum (profit driven) scenarios. Longitudinal data used was obtained from 14 representative farms for zero grazed, tethered, herded, semi-intensive and fenced dairy systems in Masaka, Mbarara and Jinja districts. Observed and profit driven farm plans were assessed by whole-farm modeling using Linear Programming net farm benefit maximization. Results obtained show that net farm benefits were significantly higher ...
The major role played by informal milk markets in Kenya and the benefits to those associated with... more The major role played by informal milk markets in Kenya and the benefits to those associated with it are now widely acknowledged. The benefits include higher prices for farmers, income generation for the market agents and convenient delivery and lower prices for poor consumers. However, in spite of these benefits, regulations governing informal marketing of milk continue to be unfavourable
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