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FACTORS INFLUENCING LIVELIHOOD DIVERSIFICATION AMONG FARMING HOUSEHOLDS IN EJIGBO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF OSUN STATE, NIGERIA [PDF]
Scientific Papers Series : Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and Rural Development, 2022 The study identified farming households’ livelihood activities and reasons for their multiplication, determined the underlining factors for livelihood diversification, and examined the militating constraints faced.
Olaide AKINTUNDE +3 more
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Bio-based and Applied Economics, 2014 This paper investigates the contribution of different off-farm income sources and Common Agricultural Policy direct payments on income inequality among farm households.
Simone Severini, Antonella Tantari
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Land, 2021 The rural land rental market is playing an increasingly important role in the agricultural transformation period for developing countries, including China, where rural farmland rental is highly context-specific with the implementation of the collective ...
Wenjing Han +3 more
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Advances in Agriculture, 2019 Income diversification by farm households has gained the attention of researchers and policy makers due to its commonness especially in developing countries.
Benjamin Tetteh Anang +1 more
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The distributional effects of agricultural policy reforms in Switzerland
Agricultural Economics (AGRICECON), 2012 This paper analyses the effects of Swiss agricultural policy reforms and the effects of farm income, off-farm income and direct payments on the distribution of the farm household income.
Nadja El Benni +3 more
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Agricultural Economics (AGRICECON), 2023 We examine the determinants of off-farm work in Swiss agriculture between 2003 and 2013. By differentiating between the between-farm effects and the within-farm effects, our model provides new insights into the labour allocation process as compared with ...
Dierk Schmid +2 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia +4 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Rice is the main staple food for more than half of the world's population and the income from rice is an essential source for livelihoods of millions of households. We examine whether direct seed in rice production is an adaptation of rice farmers to rainfall changes and farm labor scarcity.
Manh Hung Do
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Climate Risk Management, 2021 Crop insurance is an important instrument for farmers to cope with climate risks. Yet, also, diversification plays a crucial role. The use of crop insurance and diversification is interrelated.
Ladina Knapp +3 more
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Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková +4 more
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