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Potential Impacts of a Pandemic on the US Farm Labor Market. [PDF]
An outbreak of COVID‐19 among farmworkers could have significant impacts on the workers, agricultural producers, and the consumers. Farmers are implementing new labor management practices to slow the spread of the virus among workers.
Charlton D, Castillo M.
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They provide about a fifth of all farmworkers in ...
S Vaupel, P Martin
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Mechanization-driven farmland consolidation and farm household labor allocation: Evidence from grain producers in Shandong, China. [PDF]
Mechanization-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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Public Health Insurance, Non-Farm Labor Supply, and Farmers' Income: Evidence from New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme. [PDF]
The major source of income of Chinese farmers is non-farm income, especially wages and salaries. Based on the economics theory of health and healthcare, their non-farm labor supply behavior could be affected by health insurance policies.
Liu J, Lu Y, Xu Q, Yang Q.
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Formation of a labor incentive system based on a life cycle model in a pharmaceutical enterprise
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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This paper examined organic fertilizer adoption and its effects on two household food security indicators and gender-based farm labor use among smallholder farmers in Northern Ghana.
Bunbom Edward Daadi, U. Latacz-Lohmann
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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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Understanding and modelling the ambiguous impact of off-farm income on tropical deforestation
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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COVID-19 and California farm labor
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]
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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