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Collaboration For Improved Soil And Water Management In Eastern And Southern Africa, Charles S. Wortmann
Collaboration For Improved Soil And Water Management In Eastern And Southern Africa, Charles S. Wortmann
INTSORMIL Presentations
INTSORMIL Technical Focal Areas:
Enhancing productivity and livelihood in marginal areas
Soil and water management
Integrated pest management
Mitigating post-harvest losses
Nutrition and health
Food quality, processing and safety
Broadening market access
Increasing income
Breeding, biotechnology, and biodiversity
Health And Growth: Causality Through Education, Rui Huang, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, E. Wesley Peterson
Health And Growth: Causality Through Education, Rui Huang, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, E. Wesley Peterson
Department of Agricultural Economics: Faculty Publications
Purpose--The paper theoretically and empirically investigates the impact on human capital investment decisions and income growth of lowered life expectancy as a result of HIV/AIDS and other diseases. Design/methodology/approach--The theoretical model is a three-period overlapping generations model where individuals go through three stages in their life, namely, young, adult and old. The model extends existing theoretical models by allowing the probability of premature death to differ for individuals at different life stage, and by allowing for stochastic technological advances. The empirical investigation focuses on the effect of HIV/AIDS on life expectancy and on the role of health on educational investments …
Agricultural Resources Available To Women Of Arusha, Tanzania, Travis Barnett
Agricultural Resources Available To Women Of Arusha, Tanzania, Travis Barnett
Agribusiness
Paper includes prior research and background about gender inequality and a woman's role in African society. Research documents agriculturally related resources available to women living in Arusha, Tanzania. Research documents agricultural, educational and financial resources provided by Non Government Organizations (NGO's) and Farm Systems Research (FSR) headquarters. Also includes documentation of societal and geographical resources, such as crop production and market locations and times within the Arusha region.
Estimating Hypothetical Bias In Economically Emergent Africa: A Generic Public Good Experiment, Arthur J. Caplan, David Aadland, Anthony Macharia
Estimating Hypothetical Bias In Economically Emergent Africa: A Generic Public Good Experiment, Arthur J. Caplan, David Aadland, Anthony Macharia
Applied Economics Faculty Publications
This paper reports results from a contingent valuation based public good experiment conducted in the African nation of Botswana. In a sample of university students, we find evidence that stated willingness to contribute to a public good in a hypothetical setting is higher than actual contribution levels. However, results from regression analysis suggest that this is true only in the second round of the experiment, when participants making actual contributions have learned to significantly lower their contribution levels. As globalization expands markets, and economies such as Botswana's continue to modernize, there is a growing need to understand how hypothetical bias …