Search Results - subject:"Farm households"

The Impact of Small Holder Commercialisation of Organic Crops on Food Consumption Patterns in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Hendriks, Sheryl L.; Msaki, Mark M. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

The impact of smallholder commercialisation on food consumption patterns in a rural community of South Africa was investigated. The consumption patterns, dietary diversity and nutrient intakes of certified and partially certified members of an organic farmers' organisation were compared to data...

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Poverty Targeting, Resource Degradation and Heterogeneous Endowments A Micro-Simulation Analysis of a Less Favored Ethiopian Village

Kuiper, Marijke H.; Ruben, Ruerd - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

Persistent and widespread poverty in less favored areas (LFAs) is attributed to fragile natural resources and poor markets. Limited assets may keep households outside the reach of poverty policies targeted at LFAs. We explore in a stylized manner the role of heterogeneous household assets for...

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Conservation-Compatible Practices and Programs: Who Participates?

Lambert, Dayton M.; Sullivan, Patrick; Claassen, Roger; … - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2006

In recent years, the Federal Government has increased its emphasis on conservation programs that reward good stewardship on working farmland. This report examines the business, operator, and household characteristics of farms that have adopted certain conservation-compatible practices, with and...

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Economic Well-Being of Farm Households

Jones, Carol Adaire; El-Osta, Hisham S.; Green, Robert C. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2006

, incomes of US farm households. Today commodity-based support programs are still prominent, though income and wealth of the … highly variable, but the small set of farm households most at risk for income variability - because farm income represents …

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Estimating the After-Tax Income of Farm Households

Durst, Ron L.; Mishra, Ashok K. - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2006

The Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS) collects information on income of farm households from a variety of … assessing the economic wellbeing of farm households. This measure does not include the effects of income and payroll taxes. As …-being of farm households, allowing it to be compared to new Census measures for nonfarm households and also making it more …

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Typology and income situation of farm households in the Czech republic

Divila, Emil; Doucha, Tomáš - In: Politická ekonomie 2005 (2005) 4, pp. 495-512

Due to the specific corporate structure of the agriculture sector farm households in the Czech Republic comprise not … households headed by employees of agricultural enterprises. Data on the size and structure of farm households according to their … (farm and non-farm) households were taken from the last microcensus and family account statistics. In spite of some …

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Decomposition of Variability in Farm Household Assets and Debt

Mishra, Ashok K.; El-Osta, Hisham S. - In: Journal of Agribusiness 23 (2005) 2

, retirement, and succession of the farm. Households, in general, seek stability growth in wealth and, ideally, income as well. In … the case of wealth, farm households will be better equipped to handle variability once the contributing sources are …

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An Empirical Analysis of Internet Use by U.S. Farmers

Mishra, Ashok K.; Park, Timothy A. - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 34 (2005) 2

farm households. Findings indicate that educational level of the farm operator, farm size, farm diversification, off …

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Feast or flee: Government payments and labor migration from U.S. agriculture

D’Antoni, Jeremy M.; Mishra, Ashok K.; Barkley, Andrew P. - In: Journal of Policy Modeling 34 (2012) 2, pp. 181-192

Government payments have been a part of agriculture since 1933 and at no time has the government stated a policy objective of decreasing the agricultural labor force. The reality of the matter may be considerably different. Using time series data and new econometric techniques, this study finds...

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The Welfare Effects of Farm Household Activity Choices in Post-War Mozambique

Brück, Tilman - 2004

This paper analyses the effects of activity choices on farm household income and consumption in a war-affected developing country. The study uses household survey data from Mozambique and controls for the endogeneity of activity choices with instrumental variables. War-time activity choices...

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