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This study analyses the impact of income inequality on agricultural production among sample of farm households in rural … households in both rural and urban areas. The results also indicated that income inequality is higher in urban than in the rural … areas and that income level, farm size and household size are the factors that contribute to inequality in both rural and …
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This paper investigates the effects of network based individual social capital on the access of rural households to … combination with socially distant ties bridginglink social capital) can potentially improve households’ access to rural services. …
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China’s rural reforms expose farm households to the risk of administrative land reallocation and adjustment. The … official controls on rural labor mobility have been relaxed, the rural labor market has not yet reached the optimal level, and …
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success in agricultural commercialisation, and in relation to rice, drawing on data from a detailed rural panel survey for …
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This paper examines how change in rainfall patterns induces autonomous adaptation of farmers and affects their rice production. Based on recently collected household data from seven provinces in Indonesia, the analysis clearly demonstrate delays in the onset of rainy season and increased...
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More than one third of the population in Africa is still facing undernourishment and malnutrition. While poor and food-insecure people are most often living in unfavourable agricultural zones, such as semi-arid areas, only few studies have assessed the potential of well adapted dryland cereals...
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The potential contributions of new biotechnologies to sustainable food and income security have been the subject of widespread discussions around the turn of the twenty-first century. But distributional issues of which segments of GMO adopters benefit the most have not been given ample...
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and welfare in rural areas in Africa. We develop a game-theory model of supply chains in cash crop agriculture between … the poverty impacts of those changes in the value chains for twelve case studies. We investigate the average impact for … all rural households, the distribution of these impacts for poor vis-à-vis non-poor households, and the differences in …
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Based on a unique farm survey, this article intends to shed new light on the intriguing relationship between administrative land reallocations and the development of land rental markets in China. We find that the two alternative mechanisms of allocating arable land tend to be substitutes where...
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This study adopted Randomized Control Trial to examine the impact of seed voucher system on farming households’ welfare ….91. While the result of the Local Average Treatment Effect (LATE), shows a positive and significant impact of N7928.15 on PCE …
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