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Frontiers in Sustainable Food SystemsIntroductionRural households in developing countries increasingly combine farm and non-farm livelihood activities to reduce income risk, improve resilience, and enhance household welfare.
Ayodeji Kehinde +8 more
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.A distributed wireless sensing framework enables noninvasive monitoring of plant salinity stress through leaf reflectance measurements acquired with portable optical sensors. The collected data are processed using TinyML‐based neural network models deployed at the edge, enabling accurate, real‐time, and low‐cost classification of salinity levels, while
Ali Ahmad +4 more
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AN ANALYSIS OF TAX-DEFERRED RETIREMENT SAVINGS OF FARM HOUSEHOLDS [PDF]
The retiring farmer generally tries to balance the desire to keep the farm intact as a going concern with the need for a secure assets portfolio to finance retirement.
Mishra, Ashok K., Morehart, Mitchell J.
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Survey data on livelihood assets, activities and outcomes of smallholder farm households in China's Loess Plateau. [PDF]
Data Brief, 2021 Li Q.
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Tropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems, 2020 Background: Mexico has having since 1940 governmental programs to increase maize productivity without fully achieve their objectives, and one of the critics has been don´t consider the heterogeneity of Mexican farm households cultivating it and their ...
Ernesto Adair Zepeda Villarreal +3 more
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Farm profits, prices and household behavior
Journal of Development EconomicsThe agricultural household model, in which decisions about production and consumption are made simultaneously, lies at the heart of many models of development. Empirically modelling these simultaneous choices is not straightforward. The vast majority of empirical studies assume that farm-households behave as if markets are complete: in that case ...
Daniel LaFave, Evan Peet, Duncan Thomas
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Act (REA), enacted in 2000 and subsequently amended, subsidized national renewable energy production with fixed feed‐in tariffs for renewable energy sources (RE) from wind, solar, and biogas. Empirical studies suggest that the policy was creating windfall effects for landowners and attribute farmland use ...
Lars Isenhardt +6 more
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Our general interest is in global trade loss from livestock pathogens, specifically exports. We adopt a causal inference approach that considers animal disease outbreaks over time as non‐staggered binary treatments with the potential for switching in (infection) and out of treatment (recovery) within the sample period. The outcome evolution of
Mohammad Maksudur Rahman +1 more
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The role of rural off-farm employment in agricultural development among farm households in low-income countries: Evidence from Zimbabwe [PDF]
This study examines the widely held view that earnings from rural wage employment can help farm households overcome constraints on farm investments.
Chikwama, Cornilius
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen +5 more
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