Socio-economic, pedological and climate determinants of producers’ technical efficiency in Mali

This paper uses data from the National Surveys‟ data from the Living Standards Measurement Study and the Integrated Surveys on Agriculture for Mali of 2014 to analyze socio-economic, pedological and climate determinants of producers‟ technical efficiency in Mali. To do so, a stochastic production frontier was estimated for each crop category and the full sample.