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Trade-offs between nature and people in Ethiopia's protected areas demonstrate challenges in translating global conservation targets into national realities. [PDF]

open access: yesNat Ecol Evol
Jago S   +15 more
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Household and Collective in Vietnamese Agriculture

Journal of Contemporary Asia, 1985
The dramatic failure of the ‘Northern model’ applied to southern agriculture in the late seventies brought into sharp focus the debate on the progress of collective farming in the North. Pressures for change in the ‘Northern model’ itself cannot be ascribed wholly to the unsuitability of collective farms for southern conditions — a number of problems ...
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Gender, Agricultural Production, and the Theory of the Household

Journal of Political Economy, 1996
Virtually all models of the household assume that the allocation of resources is Pareto efficient. Within many African households, agricultural production occurs on many plots controlled by different members of the household. Pareto efficiency implies that factors should be allocated efficiently across these plots.
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Wage – labour activities by agricultural households in Nicaragua

Journal of Development Studies, 2005
This article considers wage – labour activities by agricultural households in Nicaragua. It analyses the role of: (1) comparative advantage as determined by individual and household characteristics; and (2) agricultural conditions and market imperfections, in shaping wage – labour supply.
Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj   +1 more
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Labor complementarities and health in the agricultural household [PDF]

open access: possible, 2011
Models of the agricultural household have traditionally relied on assumptions regarding the complementarity or substitutability of family labor inputs. We show how data on time allocations, health shocks and corresponding treatment choices can be used to test these assumptions.
Achyuta Adhvaryu, Anant Nyshadham
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Agrarian change, agricultural modernization and the modelling of agricultural households in Tibet

Agricultural Systems, 2013
Powerful forces of agrarian change are at work in western China while the government has stepped up efforts to " modernize" agriculture. Major components of the modernization process are to disseminate improved crop and livestock breeds and adjust changing agricultural structures including a shift from staple food crops to more specialized crop ...
Brown, Colin, Waldron, Scott
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