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Thriving against the odds through positive deviant behavior: technology adoption and entrepreneurship among dairy farmers in Addis Ababa and Oromia in Ethiopia. [PDF]
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Off-farm employment and agricultural specialization in China
China Economic Review, 2017Abstract While it is well known that China's off farm labor market is emerging rapidly, less is known about the effect of movement off the farm on the farming practices of those that have continued to farm. The overall goal of this paper is to analyze the effects of changes in China's off farm employment on one aspect of the performance of China's ...
Xiaobing Wang +2 more
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OFF-FARM EMPLOYMENT IN SOUTHERN SHAN STATE [PDF]
, 2019 This research highlight presents key features of off-farm employment in Myanmar’s Southern Shan State. Analysis is based on the Shan Household Agriculture and Rural Economy Survey (SHARES), which collected detailed information on livelihoods and agriculture from 1562 households in nine townships.
Zin Wai Aung +7 more
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Water savings through off‐farm employment?
China Agricultural Economic Review, 2010PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to gain more insight into the relationship between off‐farm employment of rural households and water‐saving investments and irrigation water use in rural China.Design/methodology/approachData from a survey held among 317 households in Minle County, Zhangye City, Gansu Province, covering the year 2007, are used for a ...
Wachong Castro, V. +3 more
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Farmers and Their Search for Off-Farm Employment
1989Labor force analysts predict that as many as 300,000 farmers may leave farming by the turn of the century while many others will take supplemental off-farm jobs to enable them to remain in farming. However, many farmers will have difficulty competing for nonfarm jobs because they are generally older and have less education than others in the local ...
Parker, Timothy S. +3 more
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Mechanization, Off-Farm Employment and Agriculture
1990Mechanization of agriculture has proceeded more rapidly in the Middle East and North Africa than in any of the other major areas of the developing world during the past 15 years (Binswanger 1986). Such technological change has been the response to both market forces and government policies.
Alan Richards, Ahmed Ramezani
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Rural Off-Farm Employment and Food Security Policies in Honduras
2000Agricultural development policies in Honduras focused for a long time on issues of rural production and commercialization. Since the beginning of the land reform process in 1972, most attention has been dedicated to the redistribution of national land and the allocation of ample credit resources in order to stabilize the rural population in the ...
Ruben, R., Clemens, H.
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A Multi‐State Study of Off‐Farm Employment
Home Economics Research Journal, 1988The scope, development, and implementation of a multi‐state study on the im pact of farm wives' employment on family functioning and economic productivity are described. The procedures used in questionnaire development, sampling, and data collection are reported, along with information on item and unit non‐response.
Patricia J. Wozniak +2 more
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Trade as Off-Farm Employment in Central Java
Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, 1991During the past two decades off-farm and other non-agricultural employment has increased rapidly in rural Java mainly due to an increase infernale employment in petty trade. After a discussion of various definitions and hypotheses on the growth of off-farm employment and trade it is concluded that the growth in petty trade is not a sign of economic ...
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