Search Results - subject:"farm sizes"

Cashew contract farming in Ghana : implications on farm performance and household welfare

Danso-Abbeam, Gideon; Ogundeji, Abiodun Akintunde; … - In: Journal of agribusiness in developing and emerging … 14 (2024) 2, pp. 292-309

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An Economic Study of Small Pigholders in Vietnam: Some Insights Gained and the Scope for Further Research

Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2010

Some relevant background to this research project is provided by outlining selected features of Vietnam’s pig industry. Then the main findings (in the view of the author) from this ACIAR-funded research are presented. These results include (1) natural protection given to Vietnam’s pig...

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The Survival of Small-scale Agricultural Producers in Asia, particularly Vietnam: General Issues Illustrated by Vietnam's Agricultural Sector, especially its Pig Production

Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2009

Economic growth in more developed countries has resulted in farms increasing their scale of production and becoming more specialized in their production. The sizes of farms have tended to increase, agricultural production has become more capital-intensive, and the percentage of the workforce...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530416

Natural Protection from International Competition in the Livestock Industry: Analysis, Examples and Vietnam's Pork Market as a Case

Tisdell, Clement A.; Lapar, Ma. Lucila A.; Staal, Steven J. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2009

In some countries, local agricultural products (particularly livestock products) are shielded from international competition by ‘natural’ factors influencing the purchase of products. These factors include strong local tastes (or preferences) that favour the local product and the absence (or...

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Land constraints and agricultural intensification in Ethiopia : a village-level analysis of high-potential

Headey, Derek; Dereje, Mekdim; Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum - In: Food policy : economics planning and politics of food … 48 (2014), pp. 129-141

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010485121

Land constraints and agricultural intensification in Ethiopia: A village-level analysis of high-potential areas

Headey, Derek; Dereje, Mekdim; Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum - In: Food Policy 48 (2014) C, pp. 129-141

recent household survey of high-potential areas. We first show that farm sizes are generally very small in the Ethiopian … smaller and declining farm sizes are inducing agricultural intensification, and if so, how. We find strong evidence in favor … hectare once family labor costs are accounted for. Moreover, farm sizes are strongly positively correlated with net farm …

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U.S. Farm Numbers, Sizes, and Related Structural Dimensions: Projections to Year 2000

Lin, William W.; Coffman, George; Penn, J. B. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1980

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