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Cogent Social SciencesAgricultural 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 +1 more
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Crop Insurance Design and On‐Farm Risk Adaptation
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The United States spends billions annually on crop insurance premium subsidies, yet the prevailing distance‐based guarantee design unintentionally rewards risk‐taking by linking subsidies to yield variability. We consider a simple redesign: define guarantees in terms of probability so that coverage reflects a consistent likelihood of indemnity.
Gerald Van Tassell, Alan P. Ker
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AgricultureIncome 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 +4 more
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Structural and economic dynamics in diversified Italian farms
Bio-based and Applied Economics, 2013 Objective of this work is to investigate the structural change and economic dynamics of farms pursuing diversification and differentiation strategies in Italy.
Cristina Salvioni +2 more
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On the Economics of US Agricultural Policy
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper presents an economic analysis of US agricultural policy, building on a modified version of Gardner's efficient redistribution. We argue that agricultural policy is motivated as an attempt to implement an efficient redistribution scheme that redistributes income toward farmers who, as a group, have been adversely affected by ...
Jean‐Paul Chavas
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MENINGKATKAN PENDAPATAN PETANI MELALUI DIFERSIVIKASI TANAMAN HORTIKULTURA DI LAHAN SAWAH IRIGASI
Sepa, 2017 Farmers in the paddy field farming faces some fundamental problems caused by the narrower tenure due to increased population and land inheritance, creation of breakthrough technologies to increase the productivity of rice farming and ...
Tjetjep Nurasa
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Drivers of Precision Agriculture Adoption in Italian Viticulture
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the main drivers influencing the adoption of two types of precision farming technologies in the viticultural sector: Decision Support Systems (DSSs) and Variable Rate Technologies (VRTs). We apply a partial proportional odds model and find that socio‐demographic characteristics are not significant determinants of adoption ...
Olimpia Fontana +3 more
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The Determinants of Farm Income Variability: Evidence From Estonia
German Journal of Agricultural EconomicsFarm 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 +4 more
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How Video‐Based Information Affects Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Drone Services
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Professional service for digital technology like agricultural drones lowers transaction costs and scope thresholds for smallholders. Meanwhile, perceptual adoption barriers remain underexplored. We conduct a two‐stage choice experiment with a randomized video‐based information treatment among 384 Chinese crop farmers to measure its effect on ...
Hua Zhang +4 more
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Farm income analysis of agricultural holdings in Macedonia using FADN methodology
Acta Agriculturae Slovenica, 2008 No consistent farm income data on micro level is available in Macedonia. The FADN methodology, being the only standardised and harmonised farm accountancy system in EU, was applied and tested on a sample of agricultural holdings.
Aleksandra MARTINOVSKA-STOJČESKA +2 more
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