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Factors affecting variability in farm and off‐farm income [PDF]
Agricultural Finance Review, 2011 PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the factors affecting the relative variability in farm and off‐farm income for Canadian farm operators.Design/methodology/approachVariability of farm and off‐farm income is analyzed using a dataset of 17,000 farm operators from 2001 to 2006.
Alfons Weersink
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The influence of off-farm work on farm income among smallholder farm households in northern Ghana
Cogent Economics & Finance, 2023 Income diversification is an essential livelihood strategy among small-scale farmers in low-income countries. Through income diversification, farmers can potentially invest off-farm earnings into their farm business to enhance productivity and income ...
Benjamin Tetteh Anang +1 more
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Impact of off-farm income on food security and nutrition in Nigeria [PDF]
Food Policy, 2010 Abstract While the poverty implications of off-farm income have been analyzed in different developing countries, much less is known about the impact of off-farm income on household food security and nutrition. Here, this research gap is addressed by using farm survey data from Nigeria.
Matin Qaim
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Investigation of the differences in characteristics of Welsh farming households with and without off-farm income [PDF]
International Journal of Population Data ScienceObjective To examine the characteristics of farming households that have no off-farm income, and how they compare to farming households containing at least one person employed in a non-farming occupation.
Jenny Thyer +3 more
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What may determine off-farm income? A review [PDF]
Agricultural Economics (AGRICECON), 2017 Farming is treated as one of the riskiest businesses. Political decisions, especially these related to the agricultural sector, may be treated as of a great importance. As a consequence, farm owners seek to diversify their sources of income and run other
Radosław PASTUSIAK +3 more
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Farm Household Income and On- and Off-Farm Diversification [PDF]
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2005 The paper analyzes the relationship between off-farm labor allocation and on-farm enterprise diversification as farm household income stabilization strategies with census data from the federal state of Upper Austria, Austria. The results suggest that both on-farm diversification and off-farm labor allocation are related to farm and household ...
McNamara, Kevin T., Weiss, Christoph R.
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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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The off-farm income and organic food expenditure nexus: Empirical evidence from rural Ghana
Cogent Food & Agriculture, 2023 This study uses evidence gathered from survey responses from 572 rural households in Ghana to examine the link between organic expenditure and off-farm income.
Martinson Ankrah Twumasi +4 more
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Effect of Farm Income and Off-Farm Wage Variability on Off-Farm Labor Supply [PDF]
Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2002 This study models the effects of variability in farm income and off-farm wages on farm operators' labor allocation decisions. A simple theoretical model is employed to develop hypotheses, which are then tested empirically. Variability in farm income and off-farm wages is predicted to have a positive and negative effect, respectively, on off-farm hours ...
Mishra, Ashok K., Holthausen, Duncan M.
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A NOTE ON OFF‐FARM INCOME OF FARM FAMILIES IN AUSTRALIA* [PDF]
Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1977 Past studies of the farm sector have concentrated on the use of farm based resources in the farm context alone. Changes in the economic environment have widened the opportunities available to these resources and have thus tended to make this narrow definition of the farm firm less relevant.
Tubman, Wendy, Tubman, Wendy
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