This research proposes the hypothesis that societies with long histories of agriculture have less equality in gender …. This evidence reveals a significant negative relationship between years of agriculture history and female labor force … home; (2) transition to cereal agriculture requires time consuming processing, and this would tend to be an activity …

In this paper we examine more closely the factors associated with production inefficiency in China’s agriculture. The … large percentage of the rural labor force engaged in agriculture tend to be less efficient, and suggests that nurturing and … promoting growth of non-primary agriculture may lead to more efficient use of labor resources in agriculture …

theoretical curiosity. Wealthy farmers have higher levels of output per hectare because they use more labor per hectare. Insurance …

contractual arrangement between a pollutee - a bottler of mineral water, Vittel - and several polluting farmers. We analyze the …

In this article we adapt Burtless and Hausman's (1978) methodology in order to estimate farmers' demand for irrigation … observed and unobserved technological heterogeneity among farmers. Employing micro panel data documenting irrigation levels and … prices in 185 Israeli agricultural communities in the period 1992-1997, we estimate water demand elasticity at -0.3 in the …

individual farmers' decisions to control elephants is provided. Government policies to assist farmers in coping with the elephant … pest problem are assessed. Appropriate compensation schemes for farmers are seen as potentially more effective for …

Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa discriminated against agriculture to promote industry after independence. The … domestic terms of trade were turned against agriculture by the price fixing of monopoly marketing boards. This policy was … rationing of imported inputs to industry. The region got the worst of both worlds - stagnation in both agriculture and industry …

over space and time, and thereby to obtain new evidence on changes in inputs, outputs, and productivity in U.S. agriculture …. The measures change significantly when we use state-specific rather than national prices and when we allow for changes in …