This study investigates livestock owners preferences for cattle characteristics in southern Burkina Faso. The most important animal traits were identified using focus group interviews with cattle owners, recommendations ...

Public goals of allocative and distributional efficiency can be assumed only in market-like relationships. The questions that follow are how can, and when should, the public intervene to encourage electronic markets, rather ...

The objectives of this study were to test for separation of agricultural household models and to estimate separable and nonseparable econometric models of maize output supply, yield response to price, acreage demand, ...

Policy changes in the Canadian grain industry and developing hay export market potential are two of the causes prompting many Manitoba farmers to consider the potential of alfalfa hay as a cash crop. This thesis analyses ...

This study presents an economic analysis of the logistics for food security in Zimbabwe. The study emphasizes an economic analysis of maize availability, as maize is the major staple food crop in Zimbabwe. The country has ...

The purpose of this thesis is to develop and estimate dynamic models of cow-calf and feedlot production decisions in Alberta under risk aversion and output price uncertainty. The thesis consists of two studies. The first ...

This study has modelled an alternative approach to systems of supply response by decomposing it into acreage and yield responses for Western Canada grains, using aggregate data across provinces for 1961-1995. This study ...

In Honduras, Central America, aquaculture as practiced by small-scale farmers can be characterized as having experienced mixed success at best. Yields are poor and well below potential yields indicated by field trials. In ...

This study involves comparing the forecasting and trading performance of an ARIMA model and a neural network model. The optimal ARIMA model is selected by choosing the combination of sample size and forecast ahead period ...