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Climate change scenarios in Zambia: modeling farmers’ adaptation

Agriculture & Food Security, 2022
Background At the center of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) by the United Nations is climate change. Analyzing adaptation processes is fundamental to enhance resilience in the poorest parts of the world.
Charlotte Stadtbäumer, Brigitte Ruesink, Steven Gronau   +2 more
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Childcare for farm families: A key strategy to keep children safe yet largely absent from farm programming

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
Despite long-standing safety recommendations that non-working children be supervised off the worksite by an adult, little is known about farm families' ability to comply. We conducted a review of 92 documents and 36 key informant interviews in three U.S.
Florence Becot, Shoshanah Inwood, Andrea Rissing   +2 more
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Health Care Reform and Farm Women's Off-Farm Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Taiwan

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2010
Do non-wage fringe benefits affect women's off-farm work decisions? We test the impact of the 1995 introduction of universal National Health Insurance (NHI) in Taiwan on off-farm labor force participation (LFP) among farm wives.
Pei-An Liao, J. Edward Taylor
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Determinants of Off-Farm Income among Smallholder Rice Farmers in Northern Ghana: Application of a Double-Hurdle Model

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, Richard W. N. Yeboah   +1 more
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Tax-Deferred Retirement Savings of Farm Households: An Empirical Investigation

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2011
This study examines factors affecting tax-deferred retirement savings among farm households. A double-hurdle model is estimated using 2003 Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS) farm-level national data. Results indicate that demographic factors,
Ashok K. Mishra, Hung-Hao Chang
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Considerations in Work Choices of U.S. Farm Households: The Role of Health Insurance

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2013
Most Americans receive their health insurance through employer-sponsored programs. Because farmers are self-employed, it has not been clear whether persons in farm households are as likely to have health insurance as all U.S. persons.
Mary Clare Ahearn, Hisham El-Osta, Ashok K. Mishra   +2 more
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Determining of Risk Sources and Risk Management Strategies in Dairy Farms: A Case of Çanakkale Province

Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2019
This study was aimed to determine farmers’ risk sources and risk management strategies in dairy cattle farms in Çanakkale Province. Data were obtained from 302 farms selected by stratified random sampling method from dairy farms in Biga and Çan districts
Damla Özsayın
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Coping with the work constraints in crop-livestock farming systems

Annals of Agricultural Sciences, 2017
This research aims to characterize the ways crop-livestock farms adapt themselves to work constraints. A follow-up of work activities was achieved in a sample of 14 family farms.
Mohamed Taher Sraïri, Youssra Ghabiyel
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Labour Diversification and Efficiency Trade-offs in Cassava Production: Evidence from Smallholder Farmers in Nigeria

İstanbul Gelişim Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi
Aim: This study examines the relationship between off-farm work participation and the technical efficiency of smallholder cassava farmers in Nigeria, addressing the trade-offs between labour diversification and on-farm efficiency.
Adewale Olutumise
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Predictors of inoculant-based technology adoption by smallholder soybean farmers in northern Ghana: implications for soil fertility management

Agriculture & Food Security, 2023
Inoculant-based technologies are environmentally friendly and economic ways to improve soil fertility status by incorporating atmospheric nitrogen into root nodules of leguminous crops to increase crop yield. The uptake of inoculant-based technologies by
Benjamin Tetteh Anang, Gilbert Dagunga, Martin Bosompem   +2 more
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