Smallholder Technical Efficiency: Controlling for Environmental Production Conditions

By S. Sherlund, Christopher B. Barrett, A. Adesina. 2002

332 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Management Science and Operations Research

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/279d07e0e427bbbd8642d04fbb166617e125cdfa

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

In Management Science and Operations Research

Citations in the corpus

Understanding the agricultural input landscape in Sub-Saharan Africa : recent plot, household, and community-level evidence (2014, unknown): “7 17 Spielman et al. (2011) Malawi 23.”
Impact of land fragmentation on rice producers’ technical efficiency in South-East China (2010, methodology): “[26] tested smallholder technical efficiency, controlling for plot-specific environmental conditions, in Ivory Coast, using 464 traditional rice plots.”
The efficiency of smallholder agriculture in Malawi (2009, background): “…extended the specification of variables affecting efficiency to include environmental and ecological variables because they argue that not to do so results in omitted variable bias, which leads to overestimation of technical inefficiency (see for example Sherlund et al., 2002; Okike et al., 2004).”
Technical Efficiency among Peasant Farmers Participating in Natural Resource Management Programmes in Central America (2009, background): “Despite the magnitude of rural poverty and natural resource deterioration in Central America, and the efforts and financial resources that have been allocated to tackle these problems, technical efficiency (TE) studies in developing country agriculture have consistently ignored the analysis of possi”
Sources of Technical Efficiency among Smallholder Maize Farmers in Southern Malawi (2007, methodology): “The quantity of fertilizer used on some plots was zero, so we used the approach in Sherlund et al. (2002) and equated the natural logarithm of zero to the logarithm of one-tenth of the smallest non-zero value in the sample (which turned out to be 1 kilogram of fertilizer used on the plot).”
On Crop Biodiversity, Risk Exposure, and Food Security in the Highlands of Ethiopia (2009, unknown): “The effects of farm-specific agroecological characteristics are captured by the x’s in equations (8) through the measurements of soil quality, fragmentation, and altitude (Sherlund, Barrett, and Adesina 2002).”
Can Technology Deliver on the Yield Challenge to 2050 (2009, background): “Most studies by economists have ignored these site and seasonal conditions, and therefore tend to overestimate inefficiency (Ali and Byerlee, 1991; Sherlund et al., 2002).”
A Century-Long Perspective on Agricultural Development (2010, background): “An opposing thread of the literature notes the many econometric problems inherent in the technical inefficiency research and demonstrates that, as one begins to control for exogenous, stochastic environmental factors which influence productivity, apparent inefficiency diminishes appreciably and beco”
The Welfare Impacts of Commodity Price Volatility: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia (2013, unknown): “…by its preferences and by the household-specific transactions costs it faces but also by climatic and other environmental fluctuations that affect production (Sherlund et al., 2002), which are largely accounted for by the district-round fixed effect, and by prices and income, for which we control.”