Women Headed Households in Agriculture
The year is 2018, and we are walking through thick, wet clay, without any terra firma of the kindwe are accustomed to.We are trying to access one of the hundreds of chars—sandy, low-lying river islands located where the Ganga, known locally as the Hooghly River, meets the Bay of Bengal.
Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, Itishree Pattnaik
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Agricultural policies, agricultural production and rural households’ welfare in Ethiopia [PDF]
AbstractThe paper employs the computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of the Oromia region of Ethiopia to assess the macroeconomic impacts of agricultural policy on agricultural growth and rural households’ social welfare. The analysis is based on social accounting matrix (SAM) of Oromia region. This Oromia SAM is employed as a framework to estimate
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Agricultural Mechanization Patterns in Nigeria: Insights from Farm Household Typology and Agricultural Household Model Simulation [PDF]
Anecdotal evidence indicates labor costs for farming in Nigeria are rising while levels of mechanization remain low. Information is scarce regarding the types of farm households that use mechanization in Nigeria and the potential demand for mechanization services among farmers.
Takeshima, Hiroyuki +2 more
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Agricultural Commercialisation and Nutrition in Smallholder Farm Households [PDF]
AbstractCommercialisation of smallholder agriculture is important for rural economic growth. While previous studies have analysed effects of commercialisation on productivity and income, implications for farm household nutrition have received much less attention.
Ogutu, Sylvester Ochieng +2 more
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Agricultural Profits and Farm Household Wealth [PDF]
Recent decades (especially since 1973) have been an era of decreasing production profits that threaten the survival of many midand small-sized American farms (Blank 2003). Normally, the survival of a firm depends on its profitability, both in absolute and relative terms.
Steven C. Blank +3 more
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Welfare dynamics of innovations among agricultural households in Ghana: Implication for poverty reduction. [PDF]
Onumah JA, Osei RD, Martey E, Asante FA.
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Separation Hypothesis Tests in the Agricultural Household Model
In an agricultural household model, farmers’ production decisions can be either separated or nonseparated from preferences. Since previous studies on agricultural household behavior and policy effects have shown that the model with separation yields different results than the model with nonseparation, it is important to have a test to identify the ...
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Socio-economic factors associated with open defecation among agricultural households: a cross-sectional study in Haiti. [PDF]
Paul B.
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Technical efficiency among agricultural households and determinants of food security in East Java, Indonesia. [PDF]
Hakim R, Haryanto T, Sari DW.
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Agricultural policies and agricultural household behavior
Cet article de synthèse présente un cadre d'analyse basé sur le modèle néoclassique du ménage agricole, producteur et consommateur, qui permet d'expliquer la structure de la demande de travail des exploitations agricoles françaises et la structure de l'offre de travail des ménages agricoles français. i.
Benjamin, Catherine, Guyomard, Herve
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