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Agricultural Households in Mountain Areas in Pre- and Post-accession Slovenia

Revija za Geografijo, 2010
This paper analyses structural changes in agriculture and agricultural households in the mountainous areas of the Gorenjska region in Slovenia. The focus is on agricultural multifunctional roles, agricultural and agricultural households’ structural ...
Štefan Bojnec, Kristina Knific
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Cereal production practices and technical efficiency among farm households in major “teff” growing mixed farming areas of Ethiopia: A stochastic meta-frontier approach

Cogent Economics & Finance, 2022
This study examined the effects of research-based recommended cereal production practices on the technical efficiency of farm households based on household-level data generated from questionnaire surveys, focus group discussions, and key informant ...
Fisseha Zegeye Birhanu, Abrham Seyoum Tsehay, Dawit Alemu Bimerew   +2 more
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Consumption inequality between farm and non-farm households in rural Vietnam [PDF]

Journal of Asian Business and Economic Studies
Purpose – This study aims to analyse the consumption inequality between farm and non-farm households in rural Vietnam, using the data from the 2016 Vietnam household living standards survey.
Thong Le Pham, Nghiem Tan Le, Nhi Nhat Phuong Ho, Thanh Cong Le   +3 more
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Does food security exist among farm households? Evidence from Ghana

Agriculture & Food Security, 2022
Background Food security exists when households have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food at all times that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.
Patricia Pinamang Acheampong, Elvis Agyei Obeng, Monica Opoku, Lydia Brobbey, Bernard Sakyiamah   +4 more
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Farming Systems, Food Security and Farmers' Awareness of Ecosystem Services in Inland Valleys: A Study From Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2022
Inland valleys (IVs) in West African countries have increasingly been used for crop production, including rice cultivation. Though it is widely assumed that IVs have a high potential to contribute to food security of West African countries, a ...
Tesfahun Alemayehu, Guy Marius Assogba, Silke Gabbert, Ken E. Giller, James Hammond, Aminou Arouna, Elliott Ronald Dossou-Yovo, Gerrie W. J. van de Ven   +7 more
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Rural livelihood vulnerabilities, contributing factors and coping strategies in Takusa Woreda, North Western Ethiopia

Cogent Social Sciences, 2022
In Ethiopia, rural livelihoods are commonly subjected to diverse social, economic, institutional and natural-induced vulnerabilities, which affect the welfare state of households in rural hemisphere.
Negusie Abuhay Mengistu
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Health Care Reform and Farm Women's Off-Farm Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Taiwan

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2010
Do non-wage fringe benefits affect women's off-farm work decisions? We test the impact of the 1995 introduction of universal National Health Insurance (NHI) in Taiwan on off-farm labor force participation (LFP) among farm wives.
Pei-An Liao, J. Edward Taylor
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A Gender based Economic Analysis of Yam Production among Resource Poor Farm Households in Kwara State, Nigeria

Agricultura Tropica et Subtropica, 2015
The study carries out a gender based economic analysis of yam production among resource poor farm households in Kwara State with implication for poverty reduction in the state.
Olorunsanya Eniola Oluwatoyin
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Determinants of farm households’ participation in fish production in Southwest Ethiopia

Cogent Food & Agriculture, 2020
In Ethiopia, the fishery sector plays an important role to improve food security, employment creation, income generation and poverty reduction. Despite the economic importance of fish farming at the household and national level, farm households have paid
Birara Endalew, Melese Zeleke, Workneh Yenewa, Zemen Ayalew   +3 more
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THE DIVERSITY LIVELIHOOD OF CORN FARMER HOUSEHOLDS: EVIDENCE FROM TRANSMIGRATION PROGRAM OF GORONTALO PROVINCE, INDONESIA

Agric
The corn farmer households examined in this study participated in the dryland transmigration program to enhance welfare by furnishing livelihood capital to poor farmer households.
Amelia Murtisari, Ichlasia Ainul Fitri, Theresa Dwi Kurnia   +2 more
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