@article{Ahmed:177006,
      recid = {177006},
      author = {Ahmed, Mohamed A. M. and Preckel, Paul V. and Baker,  Timothy G. and Lopez-Pereira, Miguel},
      title = {Modeling the impact of technological change on nutrition  and marketed surplus},
      journal = {Agricultural Economics: The Journal of the International  Association of Agricultural Economists},
      address = {2001-06},
      number = {968-2016-75356},
      pages = {16},
      year = {2001},
      abstract = {This study develops and demonstrates procedures for  modeling the impact of agricultural technology adoption  decisions
on consumption and nutrition in a  subsistence-farming context. The method is based on  expected direct utility maximization
(EDUM) formulation and  incorporates subsistence quantities for broad aggregates of  protein, calories, and other consumption
goods. The method  is applied to a hillside farming system of southern  Honduras where new sorghum cultivars and erosion
control  techniques are being introduced.
The expected direct  utility maximization model allows the estimation of the  effects of new technology on consumption and
marketed  surplus in situations where marginal values of products  vary by state of nature and are affected by consumption  and
production choices. The introduction of the new  technologies in southern Honduras results in improved  nutrition and substantial
increases in marketed surplus.  These effects are due to simultaneous changes in output and  consumption patterns. This work
extends the subject of  household modeling to problems with risk, and thus  complements prior work in both the integrated analysis
of  production/consumption decisions and stochastic decision  analysis.© 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/177006},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.177006},
}