Analysis of Farm Household Debt by Farm Type

Producer and farm characteristics, type of product, location: determinants of on-farm and off-farm direct sales by farmers

The Conservation Reserve Program, Off-Farm Work, and Farm Household Technical Efficiencies

Using data from a national survey of farm households in the United States, this paper examines the effects of farm households’ decisions to participate in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) and to work off the farm on the technical efficiency of farm household production. After controlling for the self selection bias in estimating the multiple output-oriented distance functions, results sho...

An Econometric Application of the Theory of the Farm-household*

Employing LL iobbDouglas specification for the production function and a modified iinear expenditure system, the paper presents an econometric model of household production, consumption and labor supply behaviour for a semi-commercial farm with a competitive labor market. The model, estimated from p.l,-iary, cross-sectional, Malaysian data, is used :o analyse the impact of migration, output pri...

Labor supply, income, and welfare of the farm household

Article history: Received 14 January 2011 Received in revised form 9 March 2012 Accepted 11 March 2012 Available online 28 March 2012 JEL classification: D1 J2 Q1

Climate smart agriculture, farm household typologies and food security

One of the great challenges in agricultural development and sustainable intensification is the assurance of social equity in food security oriented interventions. Development practitioners, researchers, and policy makers alike could benefit from prior insight into what interventions or environmental shocks might differentially affect farmers' food security status, in order to move towards more ...