Purpose – The paper aims to propose a modified multi‐activity data envelopment analysis (MDEA) to provide information on the efficiency performance of farmers' cooperatives with inputs shared among several closely‐related activities. Design/methodology/approach – The directional distance...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to address a local separability character partly identified by non‐farm participation behaviors in the context of multiple market imperfections. Design/methodology/approach – The paper develops a model to analyze agricultural household's non‐farm...

Purpose – The recent high food price and volatility, as well as economic recession, have reversed the last decade's progress in reducing hunger and poverty. This aim of this paper is to conduct a factor and sequential typology analysis to identify groups of countries categorized according to...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to assess the impact of land rights and tenure types on farmers' investment behavior in Chinese collective forests, using household survey data from Fujian Province. Design/methodology/approach – In this study, the authors conducted a household survey...

Purpose – This paper therefore aims at systematically estimating the agricultural trade induced farm employment effects in China. Design/methodology/approach – Using detailed agricultural trade and production data during 1994‐2009, the authors estimate the “labor contents” of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the extent of aging in the agricultural labor force and its effect on farm production in a province of China. Design/methodology/approach – The analysis uses panel data for the years 2004 through 2008 from a representative sample of farm...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the current state of knowledge on the economic performance of genetically modified (GM) cotton worldwide based on a wide range of data and source from available literature, and second to assess yield gain and economic...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of public investment in agricultural R&D and extension on broadacre farming productivity in Australia. Design/methodology/approach – An autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) regression model is applied to estimate the...