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ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the effects of petroleum exports and agrarian reform on rural area labour markets in the 1970s in Ecuador - discusses agrarian structure, land tenure, absorption of family labour in family farms and agricultural employment across farm size categories, rural...
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National average statistics related to farm production mask the diversity in the Nation's 2 million farms and the people who operate them. Farms in the United States differ not only by size (sales and acres) and type of production, but also by organizational characteristics (land ownership,...
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The study examined constraints influencing farmers' access to credit and the effect that credit has on maize productivity, using the endogenous switching regression approach with survey data collected from 595 maize farmers in the Ashanti and BrongAhafo Regions of Ghana. The study revealed that...
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ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on rural area poverty trends in El Salvador in the 1960s and 1970s - covers agricultural income of peasant farmers in relation to farm size and attributes its decline to underemployment, rural migration, decreased land ownership, land tenure changes, scarcity of...
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ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the agrarian structure and rural area poverty in Honduras - describes role of the banana plantations in the evolution of the agricultural sector; examines trends in farm size, land tenure, land utilization, crop yields, agricultural employment on large and small...
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Agriculture’s potential to reduce poverty at household level is explored for rainfed crop production in Africa and …. Crop production could be a pathway from poverty where smallholders are able to increase farm size or where markets … stimulate crop diversification, commercialisation and increased farm profitability. For most smallholders, however, small farm …
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Highland Ethiopia is one of the most densely populated regions of Africa and has long been associated with both Malthusian disasters and Boserupian agricultural intensification. This paper explores the race between these two countervailing forces, with the goal of informing two important policy...
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Trotz der vielfach betonten Bedeutung von Diversifikationsstrategien vor dem Hintergrund zunehmender Liberalisierung vieler Agrarmärkte existieren nur wenige empirische Arbeiten zum Zusammenhang zwischen Diversifikation und dem Erfolg landwirtschaftlicher Unternehmen. Der vorliegende Beitrag...
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smallholder incomes. However, commercial farming remains limited among smallholders in many places. This paper uses interviews …-oriented smallholders may emerge, significant smallholder land will remain in less productive uses for some time. … with Bulgarian smallholders to analyze the decision-making process related to land use. Land holders differ in their goals …
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Smallholders in the global South are confronted with new opportunities and risks emanating from globalized markets of …, and third constraints smallholders face as out-growers. Addressing these issues can contribute to a more sustainable …
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