Articles
Using System Dynamics Modelling Approach to Develop Management Tools for Animal Production with Emphasis on Small Ruminants (with L. O. Tedeschi and E. Rich), Small Ruminant Research (2011)
Small ruminants are important assets in several regions of the world. They account for more...
The costs of increased localization for a multiple-product food supply chain: Dairy in the United States (with Miguel I. Gomez and Oliver H. Gao), Food Policy (2011)
There is increased interest in greater localization of food supply chains but little evidence about...
Application of a Simulation Model for Assessing Integration of Smallholder Shifting Cultivation and Sheep Production in Yucatán, Mexico (with David Parsons, Robert W. Blake, Quirine M. Ketterings, Luis Ramírez-Aviles, Jerome H. Cherney, and Danny G. Fox), Agricultural Systems (2011)
Simulation models are effective tools to examine interactions between livestock, cropping systems, households, and natural...
Development and Evaluation of an Integrated Simulation Model for Assessing Smallholder Crop-Livestock Production in Yucatán, Mexico (with David Parsons, Robert W. Blake, Quirine M. Ketterings, Luis Ramírez-Aviles, Danny G. Fox, Luis O. Tedeschi, and Jerome H. Cherney), Agricultural Systems (2011)
Mixed farming systems constitute a large proportion of agricultural production in the tropics, and provide...
Managing Maize Production in Shifting Cultivation Milpa Systems in Yucatan, Through Weed Control and Manure Application (with David Parsons, Luis Ramirez-Aviles, Jerome H. Cherney, Quirine M. Ketterings, and Robert W. Blake), Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment (2009)
Milpa cultivation involving cutting an area of forest, burning, and planting crops has existed in...
Reports
Economics and Policy Context For the Biological Management of Soil Fertility (BMSF) in Ethiopia (with Habtamu T. Kassahun, Dawit Solomon, Amy S. Collick, and Tammo S. Steenhuis), Cornell Soil and Water Lab Publication (2009)
Many developing countries implement programs and policies to increase or maintain soil fertility, with the...
Review of Methods for Modelling Systems Evolution, ILRI Discussion Paper No. 3: Targeting and Innovation (2007)
Acceleration of economic, technological, social, and environmental change challenge decision-makers of various kinds to learn...
US Dairy Product Trade: Modeling Approaches and the Impact of New Product Formulations (with Phillip M. Bishop), Final Report for NRI Grant # 2001-35400-10249 (2004)
Several domestic and international developments increased interest among the US dairy industry in world markets...
Agroindustrialization Through Institutional Innovation: Transactions Costs, Cooperatives and Milk-Market Development in the Ethopian Highlands (with Garth Holloway, Chris Delgado, Steven Staal, and Simeon K. Ehui), MSSD Discussion Paper 35 (1999)
Some small-holders are able to generate reliable and substantial income flows through small-scale dairy production...
Smallholder Dairying under Transactions Costs in East Africa (with Steven Staal and Christopher L. Delgado), MSSD Discussion Paper 9 (1996)
It is argued that dairying is vital to future viability of many small farms in...
Presentations
Modeling Feedback between Economic and Biophysical Systems in Smallholder Agriculture in Kenya: The Crops, Livestock and Soils in Smallholder Economic Systems (CLASSES) Model (with Emma C. Stephens, Christopher B. Barrett, Douglas R. Brown, Johannes Lehmann, David Mbugua, Solomon Ngoze, David Parsons, Alice N. Pell, and Susan J. Riha), Centre for the Study of African Economies Conference 2009: Economic Development in Africa (2009)
We investigate natural resource-based poverty traps using a simulation model of smallholder farms in highland...
Effect of Management Decisions on Farm and Household Outcomes in an Integrated Crop-Livestock Agro-Ecosystem in Yucatan, Mexico (with David Parsons, Jerome H. Cherney, Robert W. Blake, Quirine M. Ketterings, Luis Ramirez-Aviles, and Luis O. Tedeschi), 2007 ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meetings: New Orleans, LA (2007)
Mixed farming systems are defined by Sere and Steinfeld (1996) as those in which more...
Financial Performance Value-Added Dairy Operations in New York, Vermont and Wisconsin (with Mark Stephenson), 2007 American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting: Portland, OR (2007)
Federal, state and local governments have funded various efforts to support value-added agriculture, often implicitly...
The Impact of Market Structure on Agricultural Technology Transfer, Proceedings of the 2004 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation's Training Workshop on Agricultural Technology Transfer and Training: Bandung, Indonesia (2004)
An agribusiness focus has emerged in public discussions as way to enhance agricultural production in...
Dairy Cow Ownership and Child Nutritional Status in Kenya (with Lucy Mwangi, Steven J. Staal, and Philip K. Thornton), 2003 AAEA Annual Meeting: Montréal, Québec, Canada (2003)
This study examines the hypothesis that dairy cow ownership improves child nutritional status. Using household...