| dc.description.abstract | The changing weather patterns and seasonal shifts are negatively impacting agricultural
ecosystems and compromising the benefits from production of agricultural goods and services. Such
impacts include reduced farm returns, reduced household incomes, increase in poverty levels, and
reduction in farm productivity and efficiency. Using three waves of panel data, this study applies a
monotonic translog stochastic frontier (SFA) to assess the overall farm efficiency and the influence of
climatic factors, agro-ecological factors, and household factors on farm level efficiency. From the
results, farming households are, on average, 63% efficient and could expand output by about 37% and
still use the same level of inputs. However, this will be determined by a number of exogenous
determinants such as climatic, agro-ecological, and household factors. Climatic factors such as rainfall
and temperature decrease and increase inefficiency, respectively. The quasi-fixed factors of education
and household size decrease and increase inefficiency, respectively, while age of the household head
decreases inefficiency. | sv |
