In Australia, farm injury is associated with many hazards in differing production systems; farm injury is a high risk for the population that lives and works in rural settings, settings that are often isolated—physically and socially. The prevention of farm injury requires a multifaceted collaboration on the part of a number of key stakeholder agencies and the employment of contemporary public ...

This study examines the effect of non-farm labour participation on poverty reduction in rural Mauritania. Farm households with more land and livestock participate to a greater extent activities compared smaller or cattle. We poverty's relationship terms incidence as well intensity severity poverty. The is first highlight contribution non-agricultural sector areas apply probit, propensity score ...

An important objective of National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGP) is to create durable community asset and private asset which can enhance agricultural production as well profitability of the farmers through increasing their Gross Cropped area. It can also help the farm households to generate few extra incomes through seeking employment in this programme. An investigation is here ...

BACKGROUND Hispanic immigrant workers dominate California's hired farm workforce. Little is known about their health status; even less is known about those lacking employment authorization. METHODS The California Agricultural Workers Health Survey (CAWHS) was a statewide cross-sectional household survey conducted in 1999. Six hundred fifty-four workers completed in-person interviews, comprehe...

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) releases estimates of total non-farm business payroll employment changes every month. These estimates have significant impact on US economic policy and financial market decision makers. However these estimates are produced based only on "preliminary" Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey results, final estimates are release two months later. In thi...

Q fever, caused by Coxiella burnetii, is a recognized occupational infection in persons who have regular contact with ruminants. We determined C. burnetii seroprevalence in residents living or working on dairy cattle farms with ≥50 adult cows and identified risk factors for seropositivity. Serum samples from farm residents, including employees, were tested for C. burnetii IgG and IgM; seropreva...

The following paper advocates an active rural employment policy in order to reduce rural poverty in the development countries and initiate a sustainable development process. The permanent large increases in the population call for a significant number of employment and income opportunities. As the agricultural sector’s capacity to provide employment is limited, the only alternative is the rural...

to investigate factors affecting the adoption of conservation tillage systems, the tillage methods utilized by wheat producers in the central darab county are categorized into conventional, reduced-tillage and no tillage systems. for this purpose, multinomial logit model approach using the stata software was applied to the data set collected by random cluster sampling method. the explanatory va...

Diversity in rural incomes Although the agricultural sector has tended to receive most policy attention in rural areas, the rural poor derive their income from multiple sources – even in relatively undiversified economies. Notwithstanding problems with data reliability and comparability, there is growing evidence that, in sub-Saharan Africa, rural households commonly depend on non-farm sources ...