examine the causal effect of agritourism on farm survival. To account for self-selection into agritourism, we use regional … variation in tourism intensity that is exogenous to individual farms. On average, agritourism causally increases survival … policies to facilitate entry into agritourism can therefore be effective in keeping farms in the market. Our analysis shows …

taking up remunerative non-farm employment and identifies the determinants of non-farm income diversification at the farm … structure, migration patterns, attitudes towards and reasons for income diversification into the non-farm sector. Income … diversification indeed has a positive impact on the welfare of the households: A statistically significant increasing trend in incomes …

Using Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA), this paper centered on analysing the impact of Crop Diversification (CD) on … investigated for potential endogeneity in crop diversification. Instrumental Variable (IV) method was employed to correct for … endogeneity in crop diversification. The results of the IV estimation reveal that failing to account for endogeneity in the basic …

Crop diversification is a farm level strategy to augment income, improve food security, and mitigate risks attributable … surveys to study the impact of crop diversification on household welfare, measured by real adult equivalent consumption and … that crop diversification is a welfare enhancing strategy that increases household consumption, food security and dietary …

The main aim of this paper is to analyse the evolution, patterns and models of revenue diversification in Italian … agriculture in different contexts and for different typologies of farms. The analysis is based on the calculation of the inverse …), followed by a multiple regression model to analyse the relationship between the diversification index and other variables, in …

in Washington as they relate to agritourism and direct marketing. We characterize the agritourism entrepreneurship and … determine the extent to which Washington’s agritourism and direct marketing industry attracts local and foreign tourists. We … find that the direct marketing industry in the State is well established but the agritourism activities are still …