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Factors Influencing Farmers’ Decision for Adopting Improved Kounouz Variety and Feed Blocks in Tunisia
Despite the high potential of agricultural innovative technologies, the adoption rate by the small farmers in the context of livestock-barley systems in Tunisia is very slow. This paper aims to understand the main factors ...
Impact des Technologies de l’Information et de Communication sur le Développement de l’Agriculture en Tunisie
This French PPT presentation outline the key findings and results from the end-line survey conducted in the frame of the ICT2Scale Project "Access to E-learning and Cell Phone Based Services to Strengthen Extension Services ...
Stochastic Production Frontiers and Decomposition of Output Growth: The Case of Citrus-Growing Farms in Tunisia
The aim of this paper is to investigate the relative contribution of technical efficiency, technological change and increased input use to the output growth of the Tunisian citrus growing farms using a stochastic frontier ...
Towards an innovative olive oil value chain in Beni Khedeche area, Governorate of Medenine, South East of Tunisia
This article defines processes of the olive oil value chain (OVC) in the Governorate of Medenine, south-east of Tunisia. Based on semi structure interviews and participatory multi stakeholders workshops associating main ...
Efficiency of Crop–Livestock Production Systems Under Conservation Agriculture: Scope for sustainable system transformation to Achieving Food Security in Rain-Fed Drylands of Tunisia
The objective of this study is to evaluate the technical efficiency of farmers engaged in mixed crop–livestock systems under conservation agriculture (CLCA) in Tunisian rainfed areas who are using Resource-Conserving ...
Factors Affecting the Adoption of Innovative Technologies by Livestock Farmers in Arid Area of Tunisia
Despite the efforts to promote adoption of innovative technologies (IT) by the Government and international development projects, the adoption rate among farmers has always been low in Tunisia. This paper aims to investigate ...
Towards an innovative olive oil value chain: Options for inclusive development in South-Eastern Tunisia
The objective of this paper is to analyse the olive oil value chain (OVC) in the Governorate of Medenine
(south-east of Tunisia) and the relationships between its main operators for an effective involvement and better ...
How Investment in RD&E Offset the Negative Impact of Climate Change on the Tunisian Agricultural Productivity Sector
The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of research, development extension (RD&E) and climate change (measured in terms of change in rainfall) on the productivity growth of agriculture in Tunisia during the period ...
Innovation platform, farmers’ organization and market to empower small farmers benefit from an autochthonous meat sheep value chain under low input production systems
Regional development in Tunisian livestock has been based mainly on segments rather than on an integrated system approach and a value chains concept. Even though efforts were made to improve production, livestock productivity ...
Efficiency Change, Technological Progress and Sources of Long Term Agricultural Productivity Growth in Selected MENA Countries
We investigate the factors that affect total factor productivity growth in MENA countries. To this end, we start first by examining levels and trends in agricultural outputs and productivity growth using Torqnovist Indexes ...