Decision making pattern of subsistence farmers in Bulgaria [PDF]
Economic research by and large is dominated by a ‘rationality’ paradigm. Economic decision making within this paradigm is viewed as a maximising procedure.
Plamen Mishev, Philip Kostov
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Governing the intertidal subsistence fisheries in Mozambique: vulnerability, marginalization and policy mismatches case study of the district of Palma (The Province of Cabo Delgado) [PDF]
, 2014 Philosophiae Doctor - PhDSince the earlier 1970s the government of Mozambique has been carrying out legal, political, economic and institutional reforms which are culminating in the establishment of the current fisheries governance systems.
Gervásio, Horácio Francisco
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Subsistence Response to Market Shocks [PDF]
, 2005 Microeconomic models posit that transaction costs isolate subsistence producers from output market shocks. We integrate microeconomic models of many heterogeneous households into a general equilibrium model and show that supply on subsistence farms may ...
Steve Boucher +5 more
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Commercialization and Subsistence in Transaction Agriculture: Empirical Evidence from Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania. [PDF]
Present-day Central and Eastern European agriculture is characterized by a high incidence of small-scale farmers who are not producing for the market. This paper uses household level data from comparative farm surveys in Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary and ...
Noev, Nivelin, Mathijs, Erik
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Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research, 2017 Mixed crop-livestock farms are widely spread in different tropical regions in the world; they contribute to food security, rural development, sustainability and poverty alleviation. The effect of scale on performance of dual purpose (DP) cattle farms was
Jaime Rangel +6 more
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Semi-subsistence farm households and the non-farm rural economy - Perspectives and challenges [PDF]
Semi-subsistence farm households (SFHs) have persevered in Central and Southeastern Europe. An outlook on future perspectives of SFHs asks for reliable information on the phenomenon of SFHs and the impact of policy measures on their development options: (
Curtiss, Jarmila +4 more
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Subsistence Response to Market Shocks [PDF]
, 2017 Micro-economic models posit that transaction costs isolate subsistence producers from output market shocks. We integrate microeconomic models of many heterogeneous households into a general-equilibrium model and show that supply on subsistence farms may ...
Boucher, Steve +2 more
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Individual Subsistence: On a Principle of Economy and Society [PDF]
With this paper the author tries to clarify the terms of “public“ and “private“ with reference to the ideas of Thomas Hobbes and Johann Heinrich von Thünen.
Thieme, Sebastian
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The Economic Role of Nigeria’s Subsistence Agriculture in the Transition Process: Implications for Rural Development [PDF]
This study examined the role of subsistence-oriented agriculture in Nigeria in the 1990s to 2000s. The start out by discussing the diverging economic effects of the growth of subsistence agriculture in Nigeria since the transition process started.
Apata, O.M. +3 more
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Sensitivity of welfare effects estimated by equilibrium displacement model: a biological productivity growth for semi-subsistence crop in Sub-Sahara African market with high transactions costs [PDF]
This paper discusses the application of the equilibrium displacement model (EDM) to estimate ex-ante the welfare effects of biological productivity growth for semi-subsistence crop and its impact on poverty reduction.
Takeshima, Hiroyuki
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