Abstract Following the theory of a farm household model, relations between and farmer characteristics, including two different kinds direct payments, their effects on off-farm labour allocation decisions operators were analysed. Swiss accountancy data network (FADN) years 2017, 2018, 2019 for whole sample income groups used to model both participation supply decisions. The results show that div...

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...

I show that cotton price shocks predict lynchings of African Americans in the US South from 1882 to 1930. Specifically, a standard deviation decrease in the cotton price leads to a 0.095 to 0.16 standard deviation increase in lynchings, within a cotton-producing county. Lynchings also predict more black out-migration from 1920 to 1930. Using a simple model, I show that this is consistent with l...

This study estimated the effect of genetic change of live weight (LW) and dry-matter intake capacity (DMIC) on labour income (economic values) in dairy cattle under different production circumstances. Dutch production circumstances in the years 1998 and 2008 were based on different scenarios and varied with respect to product prices, milk output restrictions and environmental legislation. Linea...

Arable systems have to not only provide food for the masses, but they now have to be multifunctional. Thus they need to be managed to preserve the environment, satisfy social preference and provide a living for farmers, which may be conflicting objectives. Because it has the benefit of a common currency, emergy accounting has, therefore been used to assess the economic and environmental ‘health...

Sheep production systems need to become more carbon efficient meet growing public demands on climate change. Some of the ways postulated achieve this is implement new technologies and management strategies such as precision livestock farming (PLF), increased use high genetic merit animals with estimated breeding values through artificial insemination (AI) where practical, prolific breeds. Howev...

The study assessed the role and constraints of youth association in agricultural and rural development in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State, Nigeria. A simple sampling technique was employed to select 100 youth associations used as Sample size for the study. Data were generated using Structured questionnaire and interview schedule. Both descriptive Statistics and mean score were emp...

In today's world the agricultural sector employs half of the world's labour force with an estimated 1.3 billion workers active in agricultural production worldwide. The majority of agricultural workers are found in developing countries. A great majority are small scale farmers. They have been more often victims rather than beneficiaries of the green revolution, the technological development and...

Once-a-day (OAD) milking offers a major opportunity to improve labour output on New Zealand farms. However few full lactation studies have been undertaken to investigate the effect of this strategy on the productivity of the farm system. A trial was established in 2000 to measure the effect of milking frequency and breed in farm systems where stocking rate was adjusted to equalise per hectare f...