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The role of livelihood diversification strategies in the total household income in Takusa Woreda, Amhara Region, Ethiopia

Cogent Social Sciences
Agricultural income alone is insufficient to meet basic amenities for smallholder farm households, and livelihood diversification strategies are a must in vulnerable and challenging environments to improve household income.
Negusie Abuhay Mengistu, Reta Hailu Belda   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Integrating Perennial Groundcover in Corn and Soybean Acres: Impacts on U.S. Agriculture

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainable agricultural practices such as cover cropping can improve soil health, water quality, and carbon sequestration, yet U.S. adoption remains limited due to economic and operational barriers. We evaluate market and economic impacts of integrating perennial groundcover into U.S.
Sagar Dahal, Amani Elobeid, John Crespi
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing Government Subsidies for Reducing Pesticide Use: A Meta‐Analysis

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the efforts being made by governments to reduce pesticide use, subsidies are an important instrument to encourage farmers to adopt more sustainable practices. Yet, their effectiveness remains uncertain due to diverse designs and contexts.
Gaëlle Leduc, Douadia Bougherara, Thi Thanh Mai Ha, Laure Latruffe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Has the Household Old-Age Burden Affected Farm Household Incomes? Evidence from a Survey of Chinese Farm Households

Agriculture
Income increase is an important way to achieve comprehensive human development and to escape from poverty, and the growing aging problem in rural China poses a challenge to farm household income increase.
Hongwei Lu, Mingjie Gao, Guojing Li, Tingting Li, Qiyou Luo   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ex‐Ante Assessment of Farm Resilience to Institutional Shocks: A Modeling Approach

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using the agent‐based model SWISSland, we simulate farm‐level responses and interactions under two institutional shocks: tariff reductions and direct payment reductions. Using a framework we developed, we assess resilience capacities, resilience attributes, and the provision of private and public goods, following the shock.
Nadja El Benni, Gabriele Mack
wiley   +1 more source

The Determinants of Farm Income Variability: Evidence From Estonia

German Journal of Agricultural Economics
Farm income is a policy-relevant proxy for farm households' viability. Volatile income levels reduce the well-being of farmers and decrease their incentives to produce, invest, and innovate.
Olha Aleksandrova, Hossein Azadi, Rando Värnik, Maire Nurmet, Ants-Hannes Viira   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Complementary or Competitive? Emerging Interactions Between Restoration and Protection in the Conservation Reserve Program

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The USDA's Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) delivers environmental benefits to society by enrolling cropland and grasslands to reestablish or safeguard long‐term vegetative cover. In recent years, the CRP has dramatically increased grassland enrollment while cropland enrollment has been in steady decline. This paper uses descriptive analysis,
Wesley Zebrowski, Tyler Lark, Rich Iovanna   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A study of changes in rent payment and their impact on net income on fieldcrops farms in Bulgaria [PDF]

ARPHA Proceedings
The last two decades have seen an increase in rent payments from tenant farms. High rent prices are affecting farm profits and net income. More resources are leaving the farm to compensate for rented farmland, which reduces profits and slows down farm ...
Damyan Kirechev
doaj   +3 more sources

INEQUALITIES IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME IN THE HOUSEHOLDS OF FARMERS IN POLAND [PDF]

Annals of the Polish Association of Agricultural and Agribusiness Economists, 2019
The purpose of the study was to identify and assess the level of income inequality in farm households. The research methods applied were literature studies and analysis of statistical data provided by the Central Statistical Office for the period 2012 ...
Małgorzata Raczkowska, Kinga Gruziel
doaj   +1 more source

Expanded Farm Safety Net Payments Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) strengthens the agricultural risk coverage (ARC) and price loss coverage (PLC) programs by aligning program parameters more closely with recent market dynamics and allows for an expansion in program acres. This study projects the increases in ARC‐County and PLC payments for corn, soybeans, and wheat under
Oranuch Wongpiyabovorn, Tayatorn Pongspikul, Alejandro Plastina, Anup Paudel, Chandan Bhattarai, Jennifer Ifft   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source