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Small farms : changing structures and roles in economic development
Braun, Joachim von; Mirzabaev, Alisher - 2015
Small farms are the largest employment and small business group among the poor. Their businesses use mostly labor and local resources and face local constraints, but at the same time, they are affected by increasingly complex national and global economic changes, which lead to shifts in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011349430
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Small Farms : Changing Structures and Roles in Economic Development
von Braun, Joachim - 2015
Small farms are the largest employment and small business group among the poor. Their businesses use mostly labor and local resources and face local constraints, but at the same time, they are affected by increasingly complex national and global economic changes, which lead to shifts in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013880
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Evaluating nutrition and health impacts of agricultural innovations
Qaim, Matin - 2014
details of these agriculture-nutrition-health linkages are not yet well understood. While there is a broad literature on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010430772
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Typhoon and agricultural production portfolio : empirical evidence for a developing economy
Thi Xuyen Tran - 2021
In this paper, we investigate whether and how households adjust their agricultural practices such as cultivation and livestock to adapt to a severe typhoon.We, therefore, make use of a natural experiment coming from the strong typhoon Ketsana in 2009. We apply the difference-in-differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012544516
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Entrepreneurship and the reallocation of African farmers
Naudé, Wim - 2015
African agriculture's importance for sustainable development is well appreciated. Indeed, recent years have seen a … physical resources across occupations and space, and without which agriculture and industrial development, and hence structural … agriculture and focus on the literature on entrepreneurship in Africa's structural transformation. I present a conceptual model to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388301
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Cross-country comparison of farm size distribution
Bokuševa, Raušan; Kimura, Shingo - 2016
This report summarises selected measures of the farm size distribution for fourteen OECD countries: Canada, Estonia, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom (England) and the United States over the period 1995-2010. The farm size...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580286
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Structural change and farm labour adjustments in a dualistic farm structure : a simulation study for the region Nitra in southwest Slovakia
Schnicke, Hauke; Happe, Kathrin; Sahrbacher, Christoph - 2007
wären, kurz- bis mittelfristig in diesem verbleiben und den Strukturwandel hemmen beziehungsweise verlangsamen …. -- Landwirtschaftliche Beschäftigung ; Strukturwandel ; Agentenbasierte Modellierung ; Politikanalyse …
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The Changing Structure of Production : Argentine Agriculture 1988-2002
Gallacher, Marcos - 2010
attempts to explain small firm survival in Argentine agriculture in the 1988-2002 period. The evidence suggests that labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147326
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Changing Farm Size Distributions and Agricultural Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Jayne, T S; Wineman, Ayala; Chamberlin, Jordan; … - 2021
widely viewed that African agriculture is dominated by small-scale farms, we show that medium-scale farms of 5 to 100 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013322020
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Financial development, globalization, and structural transformation in developing countries
Avoumatsodo, Komla - 2023
Rodrik (2016) pointed out that late industrializing countries are experiencing a lower peak at lower income levels in the manufacturing employment share hump-shaped path. The present study develops a theoretical model to analyze the dynamics of industrialization and deindustrialization in...
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