This study examines the role of financial infrastructure in shaping child health outcomes in rural India, with a particular focus on whether access to rural banking mitigates the adverse effects of agricultural income shocks. Using data from the National Family and Health Surveys (NFHS), I...

The Agricultural and Food Policy Center (AFPC) at Texas A&M University develops and maintains data to simulate 91 representative crop, dairy, and livestock operations in major production areas of 30 states. The chief purpose of this analysis is to project the economic viability of those farms by...

This study evaluates the income effects of China’s Major Agricultural Technology Collaborative Extension Program (MATCEP) using CFPS panel data and a Difference-in-Differences model. The purpose of this study is to evaluate how large-scale collaborative agricultural extension affects...

The internet is expanding at a rapid rate, which is true even in rural areas of low- and middle-income countries. The internet affects how people produce and consume food and other goods and services. This may also have implications for incomes and diets in smallholder farm households, where...

The farm-level economic impacts of the FAPRI 2025 Baseline on representative crop and livestock operations are projected in this report, assuming provisions of the 2018 Farm Bill are in effect and continue throughout the 2025-2030 projection period. The current representative farm analysis...

Integrating resilience and vulnerability components is critical in understanding urbanization impacts on farming household livelihood strategies. This study aims to combine methods and concepts of resilience and vulnerability, that are independently analyzed by previous research to grasp...

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has incorporated climate change action and environmental care in addition to traditional goals aimed at enhancing farmers' incomes. However, such a policy is not free from drawbacks and limitations, which limit its internal coherence and external credibility....

This study investigated the impacts of a farmer field school (FFS) programme focused on farm forestry in arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) in Kenya from 2017 to 2020. Specifically, we examined whether this agricultural extension approach enhanced livelihood diversification and reduced...

Intellectual property plays a vital role in industrial competitiveness and economic growth. However, the impact of agricultural intellectual property-particularly geographical indications (GIs)-on farmers' income in developing countries remains underexplored. Using panel data from 278 Chinese...

The distribution and concentration of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) support and its impact on farm income have gained increasing attention in public debate and scientific literature. Previous studies highlighted the highly concentrated nature of direct payments, which represent the bulk of...

This paper investigates the persistence of territorial disparities in agricultural income across Italian macro-regions, with a particular focus on the role of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Drawing on the Italian Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) dataset, this study develops and...

This study finds that the one-period lagged income of China's rice farmers, as measured by net profit, has a significant linear negative impact (inhibitory effect) on rice green total factor productivity (RGTFP), a relationship characterized by two separate singlethreshold effects. Against the...

Farm income is a policy-relevant proxy for farm households' viability. Volatile income levels reduce the well-being of farmers and decrease their incentives to produce, invest, and innovate. This article provides a comprehensive analysis of the associations between agricultural subsidies, farm...

While price premiums incentivise farmers to engage in organic farming, these premiums are frequently insufficient to compensate for lower yields, resulting in no monetary benefits from adopting organic farming. This study goes beyond purely monetary outcomes and investigates how organic farming...

Smallholder banana farmers in Kenya grapple with declining farm productivity and low market prices in a fragmented, broker-dominated market. To address these challenges, the Kenya National Banana Development Strategy advocates for the adoption of contract farming. This research utilizes...

Land restoration programmes are an increasingly popular tool to reduce degradation and increase livelihoods. This study aims to summarize the available evidence on the socioeconomic impacts of interventions aiming to promote land restoration or prevent land degradation, including agroforestry,...

One of the stated goals of the common agricultural policy reforms has been to provide a fairer distribution of payments across and within member states, but little progress has been accomplished, with about 20% of farmers receiving 80% of the total amount of direct payments. This research aims...

To mitigate the socio-economic problems arising from income disparity, a comprehensive view and insights into rural households' behaviors and environment are crucial. This study employs cluster analysis to develop an empirical taxonomy of households' occupations in Thai rural areas and gain...

Homegarden avocado cultivation offers a viable option for smallholder farmers to diversify their sources of income and food. This study examined the contribution of avocado cultivars to household income diversification and food security in the Jewe and Upper Gana kebeles of Central Ethiopia....

The area of the rice harvest in Banten Province in 2021 was 319,558 ha with a production of 1,63 million tons of unhusked rice or with a productivity of 5.1 tons/ha (CBS,2022). The objectives of this study were: 1) to optimize the target of rice and corn production in Banten Province, and 2) to...

The process of implementation of the rural three industries integration in China is still in its initial stage; however, it has essential meaning to achieve the integration of urban and rural resources, development of modern agriculture, and raise of farmers' income. To study the causal...

The role of Middlemen in rural areas is often controversial, mainly because of the positive or negative roles they play in the farmer's livelihood. This paper shows that Middlemen help farmers sell more efficiently, save time identifying dependable purchasers, and provide security because they...

The role of Middlemen in rural areas is often controversial, mainly because of the positive or negative roles they play in the farmer's livelihood. This paper shows that Middlemen help farmers sell more efficiently, save time identifying dependable purchasers, and provide security because they...

Global biofuel production has increased over tenfold since 2000 and numerous biofuel production plants have been built in the Great Plains region. We estimate the impact of biofuel plants on the agricultural economy with county-level data on the number of farm operators, net farm income (NFI),...