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Discover SustainabilityThe Ethiopian economy relies heavily on agriculture, but the sector faces significant challenges, including dependence on rain-fed farming, fragmented landholdings, low adoption of modern technologies, and vulnerability to climate shocks.
Sura Degefu
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Income Diversification of Farm Households: Relevance and Determinants in Germany [PDF]
During recent years, the number of farms able to generate satisfactory income from agricultural production has continuously decreased in advanced economies.
Glauben, Thomas +4 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT EU member states have exhibited varying rates of apple production growth. Technical efficiency (TE) estimation is suitable for identifying best‐practice farm performance. This study examined whether the development of the apple sector in Germany, Italy, and Poland was influenced by production efficiency, access to technology, as well as ...
Anika Muder, Jakub Staniszewski
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DETERMINANTS OF INCOME DIVERSIFICATION IN INDONESIAN ISLAMIC BANKS: AN ARDL APPROACH
I-Economics: A Research Journal on Islamic EconomicsThe increasing competition and evolving regulatory landscape in the Islamic banking sector have prompted banks to diversify their income sources beyond traditional financing activities.
Muhammad Deni Putra +2 more
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Boda-bodas rule: Non-agricultural activities and their inequality implications in Western Kenya [PDF]
Diversification into non-agricultural activities in rural areas can be broadly classified as either survival-led or opportunity-led. The existence of these two types of non-agricultural activities implies a U-shaped relationship between the share of ...
Lay, Jann +2 more
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Location, Agricultural Risk, and Farm Income Diversification [PDF]
Geographical Analysis, 1983 Prices of agricultural products are notoriously subject to sizable, but unpredictable, annual fluctuations. Farm incomes consequently have a similar year-to-year instability. In the absence of government insurance or stabilization programs, farmers are left to themselves to devise methods of reducing fluctuations in their incomes to acceptable levels ...
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Farmers markets provide a direct‐to‐consumer marketing path for farmers and small businesses, facilitating customer discovery and product refinement. This paper explores farmers markets as a business incubator, with a focus on beginning vendors and resilience to a shock, namely, COVID‐19 market restrictions.
Mallory L. Rahe +2 more
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Diversification strategies and their impact on farm performance
Apstract: Applied Studies in Agribusiness and Commerce, 2013 The objective of this study is to identify factors determining the economic performance of agricultural holdings in Italy, with specific attention to the impact of the adoption of on-farm diversification strategies, namely income diversification and ...
Cristina Salvioni, Lara Fontanella
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HETEROGENEOUS CONSTRAINTS, INCENTIVES AND INCOME DIVERSIFICATION STRATEGIES IN RURAL AFRICA [PDF]
A burgeoning recent literature emphasizes "livelihood" diversification among smallholder populations (Chambers and Conway 1992, Davies 1993, Ellis 1998, Bryceson 1999, Ellis 2000, Little et al. 2001).
Barrett, Christopher B. +3 more
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Income diversification in Zimbabwe : welfare implications from urban and rural areas [PDF]
The author examines, taking into account the urban-rural divides, the changes and welfare implications of income diversification in Zimbabwe following macroeconomic policy changes and droughts of the early 1990s. Data from two comparable national income,
Ersado, Lire
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