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Productivity, transport costs and subsistence agriculture
Journal of Development Economics, 2014Abstract A defining feature of many poor economies is the large fraction of workers engaged in subsistence agriculture. We develop a multi-sector multi-region model of a poor economy in which it is costly to transport goods across regions in order to study this outcome.
Douglas Gollin, Richard Rogerson
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Production Risk in a Subsistence Agriculture
The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2013AbstractPurpose: In this article we illustrate the importance of understanding the risk profiles of new technologies, in addition to the changes in productivity, to be able to determine strategies for agricultural development.Design/methodology/approach: The analysis is based on data obtained from a 2002 survey of subsistence farmers in the Kilimanjaro
A. G. Guttormsen, K. H. Roll
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The Persistence of Subsistence Agriculture
2006The story told by The Persistence of Subsistence Agriculture begins 8,000 years ago as humans began using the land and weather to provide themselves with food, housing, and clothing. Productive farmers took care of most daily needs within the small conservative world in which they lived.
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FRONTIER AGRICULTURE: SUBSISTENCE OR COMMERCIAL?
Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 1977(1977). FRONTIER AGRICULTURE: SUBSISTENCE OR COMMERCIAL? Annals of the Association of American Geographers: Vol. 67, No. 3, pp. 463-464.
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NEMATODE MANAGEMENT IN SUSTAINABLE AND SUBSISTENCE AGRICULTURE
Annual Review of Phytopathology, 1996▪ Abstract In small-scale, subsistence agriculture in the tropics and the subtropics, traditional farming practices have evolved that provide a sustainable means of reducing the incidence and damage caused by pests including nematodes. Other newer, cultural and low-input practices can also be successfully introduced in small-scale farming.
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Staple crops in subsistence agriculture
1982Research on subsistence agriculture, staple crops and pests of staple crops have generally been neglected by researchers in New Guinea. This could also apply to many other tropical countries. Byrne (1973) ascribes this neglect to: “(a) The attitude that the traditional bush fallow system, which has evolved over many hundreds of years, is difficult to ...
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“Subsistence Agriculture”: Analytical Problems and Alternative Concepts
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1968AbstractThis article argues that the concept of “subsistence agriculture”—widely encountered and long used in the literature—is not meaningful enough to be analytically useful as usually employed and should be abandoned. Particularly important for policy is the fact that use of the term “subsistence agriculture” leads to implicitly treating all small ...
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Subsistence Agriculture: Concepts and Scope
2017The problem of modernizing subsistence agriculture cuts across disciplinary boundaries. "Subsistence production" and "subsistence levels of living" provided less difficulty than "subsistence agriculture," "subsistence economy," and "subsistence farmer." Of all these concepts, the definition of "subsistence farmer" and/or "peasant" created the greatest ...
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Subsistence Agriculture and Economic Development.
Economica, 1972P. Ingham Ayre, Clifton R. Wharton
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