Farm Production

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...

On Adaptation to Climate Change and Food Security: a Micro-perspective from Ethiopia

We examine the driving forces behind farmers’ decisions to adapt to climate change, and the impact of adaptation on farmers’ food production. We investigate whether there are differences in the food production functions of farm households that adapted and those that did not adapt. We estimate a simultaneous equations model with endogenous switching to account for the heterogeneity in the decisi...

Lamb production of fall vs spring mating of four fat-tailed iranian breeds of sheep under farm conditions

Farm Households Production Theories: a Review of 'institutional' and 'behavioural' Responses Mariapia Mendola Farm Households Production Theories: a Review of 'institutional' and 'behavioural' Responses*

This paper presents a synthesis of the main theoretical and empirical contributions that analyse production choices of farm households living and operating in developing countries. The review is particularly concerned with recent micro-economic contributions that highlight the trade-off farm households typically face, between full-income risk and expected return, while making production decisio...

Economic and environmental feasibility of a perennial cow dairy farm.

More efficient and economical production systems are needed to improve the sustainability of dairy farms. One concept to consider is using perennial cows. Perennial cows are those that maintain a relatively high milk production for >or=2 yr without going through the typical dry period followed by calving. Farm records show that some cows have produced over 20 kg/d after 4 yr of continuous lacta...

Farm production, market access and dietary diversity in Malawi

OBJECTIVE The association between farm production diversity and dietary diversity in rural smallholder households was recently analysed. Most existing studies build on household-level dietary diversity indicators calculated from 7d food consumption recalls. Herein, this association is revisited with individual-level 24 h recall data. The robustness of the results is tested by comparing househol...