Agricultural Transformation in Africa: Contemporary Issues, Empirics, and Policies
In: Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development Series
Intro -- Contents -- Editor and Contributors -- The Introduction: Pandemic Preparedness and A-Platonic Policies for Transforming Africa's Agri-food Systems -- 1 Introduction and Background -- 1.1 The Book Roadmap -- References -- Technical Efficiency and Poultry Farming in Nigeria -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Theoretical Framework -- 2.1 Cobb-Douglas Production Function -- 2.2 Empirical Review -- 3 Methodology -- 3.1 The Study Area -- 3.2 Population, Sampling Procedure, and Data Collection -- 3.3 Variable Specification/Model Specification -- 4 Results and Discussion -- 5 Conclusion and Policy Implications -- References -- Economics of Sesame Marketing in Nigeria -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Methodology -- 2.1 The Study Area -- 2.2 Population, Sampling Procedure, and Data Collection -- 3 Variable Specification/Model Specification -- 3.1 Binary Logistic Regression Mode -- 4 Results and Discussion -- 4.1 Factors Influencing Market Participation of Sesame Farmers in Benue State, Nigeria -- 4.2 Constraints to Market Participation Faced by Sesame Producers -- 4.3 Marketing Margin (Market Conduct) -- 4.4 Marketing Efficiency (Market Performance) -- 4.5 Market Structure -- 5 Conclusion and Policy Implications -- References -- Analysis of Smallholder Maize Farmer's Technical Efficiency and Farm Management Practices in the West Region of Cameroon -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Theoretical Framework -- 3 Empirical Literature -- 4 Methodology -- 5 Specification of the Technical Efficiency Model -- 6 Specification of Profitability -- 7 Results and Discussion -- 8 Profitability of Maize Producers -- 9 Farm Management Practices in the West Region of Cameroon -- 10 Conclusion and Policy Implications -- References -- Structure, Conduct, and Performance of Tomato Retailers in Abeokuta South, Ogun State, Nigeria -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Methodology.