Economic efficiency of smallholder maize producers in western Kenya: a DEA meta-frontier analysis

DOI10.1504/IJOR.2009.023284zbMATH Open1161.90433MaRDI QIDQ1019564FDOQ1019564

Authors: Richard Mulwa, Ali Emrouznejad, Lutta Muhammad 

Publication date: 3 June 2009

Published in: International Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

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zbMATH Keywords

data envelopment analysisDEAeconomic efficiencymeta-frontierKenyacash cropsfood cropsmaize productionsmallholderstobit analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Case-oriented studies in operations research (90B90)

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