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AD|ARC (Administrative Data | Agricultural Research Collection): Characteristics of farm households participating in agri-environment schemes in Wales, UK. [PDF]

International Journal of Population Data Science
Objectives • Describe the sociodemographic and farm business characteristics of farming households in Wales that have agri-environment contracts (voluntarily opting-in) without primary farm subsidies (voluntarily opting-out).
Sian Morrison-Rees, Rachael Loftus, Laura Madden, Freya Pryce, Matthew Curds, Paul Caskie   +5 more
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Investigation of the differences in characteristics of Welsh farming households with and without off-farm income [PDF]

International Journal of Population Data Science
Objective To examine the characteristics of farming households that have no off-farm income, and how they compare to farming households containing at least one person employed in a non-farming occupation.
Jenny Thyer, Sian Morrison-Rees, Sean Scully, Paul Caskie   +3 more
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Review on livelihood diversification and food security situations in Ethiopia

Cogent Food & Agriculture, 2021
This review focused on the livelihood diversification and food security situations in Ethiopia. Hence, the objectives of this review were to identify the determinants of rural household livelihood diversification and food security situations, to compile ...
Andualem Kassegn, Ebrahim Endris
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Off-Farm Employment Decisions by Massachusetts Farm Households [PDF]

Northeastern Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 1989
The off-farm labor participation and supply decisions of Massachusetts farm families were estimated in a model which allows for joint decisions. The hypothesis of joint off-farm participation decisions by operators and spouses was rejected. However, there was some evidence that the hours supplied by the farm operator was dependent upon the decision by ...
Lass, Daniel A., Findeis, Jill L., Hallberg, Milton C.   +2 more
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Livelihood strategies and diversification in western tip pastoral areas of Ethiopia

Pastoralism, 2017
The purpose of this study was to identify the livelihood strategies and diversification status in the western tip of Ethiopia, Lare woreda. A mixed research method of sequential transformative strategy was used. Surveys and key informant interviews (KII)
Yilebes Addisu
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Farm typology of smallholders integrated farming systems in Southern Coastal Plains of Kerala, India

Scientific Reports, 2022
Adoption of an integrated farming system (IFS) is essential to achieve food and nutritional security in small and marginal holdings. Assessment of IFS to know the resource availability and socio-economic condition of the farm household, farm typology ...
Anitrosa Innazent, D. Jacob, J. S. Bindhu, Brigit Joseph, K. N. Anith, N. Ravisankar, A. K. Prusty, Venkatesh Paramesh, A. S. Panwar   +8 more
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Farmland Rental Participation, Agricultural Productivity, and Household Income: Evidence from Rural China

Land, 2021
The rural land rental market is playing an increasingly important role in the agricultural transformation period for developing countries, including China, where rural farmland rental is highly context-specific with the implementation of the collective ...
Wenjing Han, Zhengfeng Zhang, Xiaoling Zhang, Li He   +3 more
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Determinants of investments in non‐farm assets by farm households [PDF]

Agricultural Finance Review, 2004
Off‐farm investment decisions of farm households are analyzed. Farm‐level data for a sample of Kansas farms observed from 1994 through 2000 are utilized. A system of censored dependent variable models is estimated to investigate the factors that influence the composition of farm households’ portfolios.
Serra, Teresa, Goodwin, Barry K., Featherstone, Allen M.   +2 more
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TRACTATE ON HOUSEHOLD AND FARM

Ekonomika Poljoprivrede (1979), 2006
In this paper work author continues and expands deliberation on semantic and methodological remarks, dilemmas and controversies regarding concepts of household and farm, as his contribution and incentive to other authors to make their own contributions in order to confirm, improve, increase or disprove the author's and other opinions on concepts of ...
Sevarlic, M. M., Sevarlic, M. M.
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Urbanization and its effects on income diversification of farming households in Adama district, Ethiopia

Cogent Economics & Finance, 2022
Urbanization remains a public policy challenge in developing countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, where fast growth rates have been observed.
Wakitole Dadi, Messay Mulegeta, Negussie Simie   +2 more
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