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non-farm employment participation increased at a declining rate with age among farmers and that university education …
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Agricultural workers move in and out of agriculture frequently. Migration between types of jobs takes relatively little … to jobs outside of agriculture is more limited than that of their male counterparts. Predictions made when the 1986 … Immigration Reform and Control Act was passed that granting people amnesty would induce most of them to leave agriculture were …
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The reaction of labor markets to economic reforms is an important indicator of the progress of transition. Because of diminished government support and the breakup of state and collective enterprises, labor market adjustments in the transition economies have been particularly severe in the...
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Policy analysts and government agencies promote a particular form of what they term water quality trading as a means to address the most vexing obstacle to meeting water quality standards: reducing nutrient pollutants from agricultural nonpoint sources. However, agricultural nonpoint sources’...
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household- and individual-level determinants of improved nutrition. In addition to agriculture, intrahousehold equity, behavior … provides a detailed review, from an economic perspective, on the multisectoral pathways through which agriculture influences …
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country smallholder agriculture, index-based agricultural insurance has offered the promise of overcoming the hurdles of …
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then turns to developing countries, covering the following topics: farmers' adoption of AI, how AI affects their decision … to invest in risky assets, and the extent to which AI helps farmers smooth income and consumption. We conclude with …
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2015 and 2016 rural household survey data, the present paper examines the factors that influence small farmers' decision to … become large‐scale farmers. The empirical regression results suggest that the decision to become a large‐scale farmer is …‐grain farmers. These results imply that policy tools should target these factors and the appropriate group of small‐scale farmers …
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The financial performance of 240 farms in a drought‐affected agricultural region of Australia is analysed. The decadal study period included some years of widespread drought, as well as years with only subregional droughts or no drought. Some droughts created larger adverse financial impacts...
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A model of interlinked credit-product contracts between small farmers and large farmers when the small farmer faces …
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