The paper discusses the need for high quality agricultural entrepreneurs in the light of wider debates on agribusiness development, and explores these issues empirically through a survey of the entrepreneurial career aspirations of Sri Lankan students from Peradeniya. Aricultural students are more enterprising in their attitudes and aspirations than their local reputation suggests. They neverth...

The 'watch dog' role of the media, the impact of migration processes, health care access for children in developing countries, mitigation of the effects of Global Warming are typical examples of governance issues – issues to be tackled at the base; issues to be solved by creating and implementing effective policy. to pave the road for innovative policy developments in Europe and the world today...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE The quality of life in peri- and post-menopausal women constitutes a serious public health problem. The aim of this observational cross-sectional study was to reveal the influence of the permanent domicile on the quality of life of women in peri- and post-menopausal period, and to establish the influence of employment as a full-time agricultural worker on the quality ...

Throughout mnany less developed economies of the world, especially those of tropical Africa, a curious economic phenomenon is presently taking place. Despite the existence of positive marginal products in agriculture and significant levels of urban unemployment, rural-urban labor migration not only continues to exist, but indeed, appears to be accelerating. Conventional economic models with the...

in recent years, multifunctional agriculture as a new paradigm of agriculture and rural development was introduced to the world. multifunctional indicates that the inclusion of agricultural production functions (food, fiber) and unproductive functions (field of employment and income, strengthening social capital, conservation of biodiversity and genetic enhancement of rural industries, represen...

This study attempts to analyse empirically how economic performance and climate change affect employment in the agriculture sector. The includes seven South Asian countries’ data, excluding Maldives, from 1992 2021 by applying most widely used Panel ARDL that involved pooled mean group (PMG) estimation. In short-run, effect of past year temperature is positive, whereas GDP per capita negatively...

The non-agricultural employment transfer of the rural labor force has fundamentally changed input in China recent decades. A good understanding how off-farm laborers affects agricultural land use is needed. We Driscoll and Kraay standard errors fixed effects model to investigate relationship between laborers’ efficiency based on a panel data 1961 counties China. find that distribution county-le...

abstract using tobit model, this study investigated factors affecting on crop risk frequency of farmers in the north khorasan province. data was collected through interviewing 120 farmers of north khorasan province in 2008. results showed that age, farm ownership and off farm employment affected frequency of risk negatively. non-agricultural activity, participating in a crop supervisory plan an...

From 1962 to 2013, the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC’s) agricultural employment share declined from 82% to 31%. The transfer of workers out of low-productivity agriculture is a fundamental pillar of the PRC’s aspirations to progress and eventually become a high-income economy. We hypothesize that the drivers of this decline have been the increase in income per capita, industrial value added...