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Awudu Abdulai

Awudu Abdulai

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
54
Citations
12372
World Ranking
1131
National Ranking
36

Overview

Awudu Abdulai is affiliated with Kiel University in Germany. The research work encompasses Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Economics, Econometrics and Finance, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach aligned with agricultural economics and related fields.

The scientific contributions include publications focusing on varied aspects of agriculture, rural development, and financial inclusion, especially in developing countries. Research topics frequently addressed are:

  • Agricultural Innovations and Practices
  • Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
  • Agricultural risk and resilience
  • Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Awudu Abdulai include:

  • "Farmer groups, collective marketing and smallholder farm performance in rural Ghana", 2020, Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies
  • "Adaptation to extreme weather conditions and farm performance in rural Pakistan", 2020, Agricultural Systems
  • "The heterogeneous effects of adoption of climate-smart agriculture on household welfare in Pakistan", 2020, Applied Economics
  • "Mobile money adoption, input use, and farm output among smallholder rice farmers in Ghana", 2021, Agribusiness
  • "Recent Advances in the Analyses of Demand for Agricultural Insurance in Developing and Emerging Countries", 2020, Annual Review of Resource Economics

The frequent publication venues for this research include:

  • Applied Economics
  • Agribusiness
  • Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies
  • Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
  • Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Awudu Abdulai are:

  • Sadick Mohammed
  • Awal Abdul-Rahaman
  • Muhammad Faisal Shahzad
  • Williams Ali
  • Caroline Dubbert

Research subfields engaged with by Awudu Abdulai include:

  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Soil Science
  • Business and International Management
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Additionally, Awudu Abdulai has contributed to academic literature through book publications, including a collaborative work published by Universitätsverlag Kiel | Kiel University Publishing eBooks titled "Festschrift zum 75. Jubiläum der Agrar- und Ernährungswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (1946-2021)" in 2021.

Best Publications

  • The Adoption and Impact of Soil and Water Conservation Technology: An Endogenous Switching Regression Application

    Awudu Abdulai;Wallace Huffman

  • The Impact of Improved Maize Varieties on Poverty in Mexico: A Propensity Score-Matching Approach

    Javier Becerril;Awudu Abdulai

  • Determinants of income diversification amongst rural households in Southern Mali

    Awudu Abdulai;Anna CroleRees

  • The Diffusion of New Agricultural Technologies: The Case of Crossbred-Cow Technology in Tanzania

    Awudu Abdulai;Wallace E. Huffman

  • Spatial price transmission and asymmetry in the Ghanaian maize market

    Awudu Abdulai

  • Does cooperative membership improve household welfare? Evidence from apple farmers in China

    Wanglin Ma;Awudu Abdulai

  • Non-farm work and food security among farm households in Northern Ghana

    Victor Owusu;Awudu Abdulai;Seini Abdul-Rahman

  • The Adoption of Genetically Modified Cotton and Poverty Reduction in Pakistan

    Akhter Ali;Awudu Abdulai

  • Structural Adjustment and Economic Efficiency of Rice Farmers in Northern Ghana

    Awudu Abdulai;Wallace Huffman

  • Land tenure differences and investment in land improvement measures: Theoretical and empirical analyses

    Awudu Abdulai;Victor Owusu;Renan Goetz

  • Using threshold cointegration to estimate asymmetric price transmission in the Swiss pork market

    Awudu Abdulai

  • Determinants of Nonfarm Earnings of Farm-Based Husbands and Wives in Northern Ghana

    Awudu Abdulai;Christopher L. Delgado

  • Agricultural Cooperatives and Investment in Organic Soil Amendments and Chemical Fertilizer in China

    Wanglin Ma;Awudu Abdulai;Renan Goetz

  • Does food aid Really have disincentive effects? New evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

    Awudu Abdulai;Christopher B. Barrett;John Hoddinott

  • A cross-section analysis of household demand for food and nutrients in Tanzania

    Awudu Abdulai;Dominique Aubert

  • Measuring Heterogeneous Preferences for Cattle Traits among Cattle‐Keeping Households in East Africa

    Emily Ouma;Awudu Abdulai;Adam Drucker

  • Does trade openness contribute to food security? A dynamic panel analysis

    Jan Dithmer;Awudu Abdulai

  • Do farmer groups impact on farm yield and efficiency of smallholder farmers? Evidence from rice farmers in northern Ghana

    Awal Abdul-Rahaman;Awudu Abdulai

  • Estimating technical efficiency under unobserved heterogeneity with stochastic frontier models: application to northern German dairy farms

    Awudu Abdulai;Hendrik Tietje

  • Certification and Access to Export Markets: Adoption and Return on Investment of Organic-Certified Pineapple Farming in Ghana

    Linda Kleemann;Awudu Abdulai;Mareike Buss

  • Technical efficiency during economic reform in Nicaragua: evidence from farm household survey data

    Awudu Abdulai;Richard Eberlin

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher B. Barrett
Christopher B. Barrett Cornell University
Wallace E. Huffman
Wallace E. Huffman Iowa State University
Xinshen Diao
Xinshen Diao International Food Policy Research Institute
Peter B. R. Hazell
Peter B. R. Hazell Imperial College London
Michael P. Johnson
Michael P. Johnson Pennsylvania State University
Henner Simianer
Henner Simianer University of Göttingen
Ashok K. Mishra
Ashok K. Mishra Arizona State University
John Hoddinott
John Hoddinott Cornell University
Bekele Shiferaw
Bekele Shiferaw World Bank Group
Markos Tibbo
Markos Tibbo Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

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