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Modernizing smallholder agriculture and achieving food security: An exploration in machinery services and labor reallocation in China

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
This study discusses the modernization of smallholder agriculture in China, where most farms are small, and farms' parcels are fragmented. The study puts forward a framework of agricultural modernization by vertical division of labor and specialized ...
Bao-Ling Zou, Ashok K. Mishra
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FARM LABOR DEMAND: A META-REGRESSION ANALYSIS OF WAGE ELASTICITIES [PDF]

Previous research on farm labor demand is reviewed to empirically explore what has been learned over the past 50 years. Following the example of Hamermesh, studies were differentiated by numerous factors.
Thilmany, Dawn D., Espey, Molly
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Innovative approaches improve farm labor

California Agriculture, 1984
A major educational effort to improve personnel management practices would benefit both workers and ...
J Mamer, R Glover
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The impact of labor force aging on agricultural total factor productivity of farmers in China: implications for food sustainability

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
The rapid aging of the labor force has serious implications for socioeconomic development and poses challenges to food sustainability. Existing studies have focused on the impact of labor force aging on land productivity, but little attention has been ...
Ting Tong, Feng Ye, Qing Zhang, Wen-Mei Liao, Yifei Ding, Yi Liu, Gu-Cheng Li   +6 more
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New Jersey farm labor report 1970

, 1970
Annual farm labor report for the state of New Jersey covering recruitment, economic trends, impact of mechanization, wages, public relations and ...

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How Do Health and Social Insurance Programs Affect the Land and Labor Allocations of Farm Households? Evidence from Taiwan [PDF]

Using a unique dataset of 703,287 farm operators from the Taiwanese Census of Agriculture merged to administrative records from the National Farmers' Health Insurance (FHI) program, we examine the effects of the enrollment in the FHI program on farmers ...
Meyerhoefer, Chad D., Chang, Hung-Hao, Just, David R.   +2 more
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THE RELATION BETWEEN FARM PRODUCTION RISK AND OFF-FARM INCOME [PDF]

This paper presents a model of the farm labor allocation decision based on risk and return characteristics of different activities. It is shown that off-farm employment can play an important role in the diversification of farm family income, implying ...
Kyle, Steven C.
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Effects of Off-Farm Employment on the Eco-Efficiency of Cultivated Land Use: Evidence from the North China Plain

Land
The effective allocation of labor and cultivated land resources to ensure food security is a global concern. Understanding the relationship between rural labor off-farm employment and the eco-efficiency of cultivated land use (ECLU) is critical, yet ...
Peng Zhang, Youxian Li, Xuefeng Yuan, Yonghua Zhao   +3 more
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Labor Market Participation of Chinese Agricultural Households [PDF]

This work is devoted to the analysis of the different labor market participation regimes of Chinese farm households. Using household data over the period 1986-2000 from the province Zhejiang, we apply a multinomial logit model to empirically examine ...
Herzfeld, Thomas, Glauben, Thomas, Wang, Xiaobing   +2 more
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Agricultural Economic Water Productivity Differences across Counties in the Colorado River Basin

Hydrology
This study estimates the relative contribution of different factors to the wide variation in agricultural economic water productivity (EWP) across Colorado River Basin counties.
George B. Frisvold, Jyothsna Atla
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