Factors affecting the technical efficiency among smallholder farmers in the slash and burn agriculture zone of Cameroon

Food Policy

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 531-545

  Binam, Joachim Nyemeck ^a   Tonyè, Jean ^a   Wandji, Njankoua ^b   Nyambi, Gwendoline ^a   Akoa, Mireille ^a  

^a IRAD   (Cameroon)

^b Humid Forest Ecoregional Center   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

Slash and burn agriculture; Stochastic frontiers; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

CROP PRODUCTION; MONOCULTURE; SHIFTING CULTIVATION; SMALLHOLDER; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY;

AFRICA; CAMEROON; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA; WORLD;

ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 8844244807     PISSN: 03069192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2004.07.013     Document Type: Article

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