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Social roles of farmwomen: The case of Croatia

open access: yesAgricultural Economics (AGRICECON), 2011
The article is based on a field research on family farms in Croatia. On a sample of 350 farmwomen their social roles were analysed. The keys of the gender division of typical feminine tasks such as household tasks, family care tasks and the position in ...
Anita Silvana ILAK PERŠURIĆ
doaj   +1 more source

REVITALIZING FAMILY FARM AGRICULTURE [PDF]

open access: yes
Agricultural and Food Policy,
Frederick, A.L. (Roy)
core   +1 more source

Ban Glyphosate—Does It Affect the Swedish Farmers' Willingness to Grow Cover Crops?

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The cultivation of cover crops is one of the new Eco‐scheme practices introduced in Sweden. This study examines how the design of policy attributes of these schemes influences farmers' willingness to grow cover crops on arable land, with particular focus on the potential impact of a glyphosate ban.
Vivian Wei Huang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do Tax Incentives for Farmland Leases Increase Farm Supply? Evidence From Iowa's Beginning Farmer Tax Credit

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent decades, agriculture has become increasingly concentrated through horizontal mergers and acquisitions via corporate entities, and policy makers are concerned this will be exacerbated by the aging population of farm operators. To reduce market concentration in agriculture, many states have enacted policies to entice new prospective ...
Justin M. Ross   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Peasant families and farm size in Fascist Italy

open access: yesGenus
This article looks at the key factors affecting the connection between peasant family size and farm size in Italy in 1930–1931. The association between farm size and family size was analyzed using a new dataset merging data drawn from both the Population
Alessio Fornasin   +2 more
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PEKERJAAN LUAR USAHATANI (KASUS RUMAH TANGGA PETANI GUREM DI JAWA)

open access: yesAgro Ekonomi, 2016
Small farmer's household never deppend on on-farm income, they must to get other income sources by allocating their family labour as must as possible.
Ken Suratiyah
doaj   +1 more source

Innovation in Family Farms: The Roles of the Market, the Family, and Farm Performance

open access: yesJournal of Small Business Strategy, 2022
Most farms are struggling with aggravating economic, social and ecological conditions. If family farms want to survive in the long run, they need to develop innovation strategies. In line with the resource-based view, this paper argues that market orientation and multiple family generations in management are valuable resources of a family farm, which ...
openaire   +1 more source

SUCCESSION IN FAMILY FARM BUSINESS: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM THE U.S. FARM SECTOR [PDF]

open access: yes
Survival of many family farms is dependent on successful intergenerational transfer. Given the importance of succession in the farm sector, the purpose of this paper is to examine factors that are likely to influence succession decisions on U.S.
El-Osta, Hisham S.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Why Didn't I Get a Payout? Understanding Farmer Choices, Index Insurance, and Basis Risk

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Index insurance, while heralded as a potential solution to alleviate poverty and food insecurity among agricultural households, has its own set of challenges, notably basis risk. Basis risk is the discrepancy between the insurance payout and losses incurred, posing a significant deterrent to the adoption of index insurance.
S. Lucille Blakeley   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Forage quality on family farms in Croatia: hay quality monitoring over the two winter feeding seasons of dairy cows

open access: yesMljekarstvo, 2005
The aim of the applied research project:“Forage evaluation by NIR spectroscopy” was to monitor the nutritive value of grass silage, corn silage and hay on family farms in Croatia over 6-month feeding in each of the two investigation years (from November ...
Marina Vranić   +6 more
doaj   +2 more sources

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