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Mechanization-driven farmland consolidation and farm household labor allocation: Evidence from grain producers in Shandong, China. [PDF]
PLoS ONEMechanization-driven farmland consolidation has become a key component of China's efforts to raise grain productivity and optimize rural labor allocation. We used a survey of 630 grain-producing households in Shandong Province, and combined a Tobit model
Yang Liu +7 more
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California Agriculture, 1986 They provide about a fifth of all farmworkers in ...
S Vaupel, P Martin
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Potential Impacts of a Pandemic on the US Farm Labor Market [PDF]
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2021 Diane Charlton
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Formation of a labor incentive system based on a life cycle model in a pharmaceutical enterprise
Ученые записки Российской академии предпринимательства, 2023 A feature of the activities of pharmaceutical enterprises is the high knowledge intensity of production, complex technological process, long–term implementation of projects.
V. A. Skorobogach
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Understanding and modelling the ambiguous impact of off-farm income on tropical deforestation
Journal of Land Use Science, 2022 Few land-allocation models consider the impact of off-farm income on tropical deforestation. We provide a concept to integrate off-farm income in a mechanistic multiple-objective land-allocation model, while distinguishing between farms with and without ...
Thomas Knoke +2 more
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021 Humanity faces a triple threat of climate change, biodiversity loss, and global food insecurity. In response, increasing the general adaptive capacity of farming systems is essential.
Margiana Petersen-Rockney +19 more
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COVID-19 and California farm labor
California Agriculture, 2020 COVID-19 may accelerate trends in California agriculture toward mechanization and the use of guest-worker programs.
Philip Martin
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Families, Labor and Farms [PDF]
, 2014 The rural worlds in the South have changed dramatically in recent decades. In addition to transformations brought about by globalization (Losch et al. 2012), they have also been affected, from near or far, by the major trends which have taken place in most contemporary societies: demographic transition (in Latin America and Asia), family ...
Ancey, Véronique +1 more
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Pay method affects vineyard pruner performance
California Agriculture, 1992 A new study indicates that vineyard pruners paid on a piece-rate basis tend to work more quickly than those paid by the hour. Pay method had little effect on pruning quality as perceived by growers, although crews paid by the hour did ...
Gregory E. Billikopf, Maxwell Norton
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Workers prefer growers over FLCs
California Agriculture, 1997 Given a choice, crew workers overwhelmingly prefer working for a grower rather than for a farm labor contractor. FLCs generally have a couple of advantages over growers including less of a language barrier and the potential for ...
Gregory Encina Billikopf
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