As cost of living rises and people’s wages / salaries do not cover their basic food and dietary needs, interest in parttime farming has risen. Part-time farming activities are being practiced by different people as a food security strategy from vulnerable households. But these part-time farms have had limited success in providing food/nutrition security, increasing incomes and improving well-be...

Summary Ecological farming, such as organic and low‐input is gaining popularity in the public discourse. One question how this type of farming may impact farm labour from a socio‐economic point view. The article first discusses practices (i.e. with lower reliance on inputs derived fossil fuels) affect economic returns to labour, measured farm’s revenue per hour input, data Farm Accountancy Data...

The word ‘ganyu’ is widely used in Malawi to describe a range of short-term rural labour relationships, the most common of which is piecework weeding or ridging on the fields of other smallholders, or on agricultural estates. Ganyu is a crucial poverty issue in Malawi because: • After own-farm production, ganyu is the most important source of livelihood for most poor households – for some it is...

Focus groups were held with high achieving New Zealand Farmers in four pastoral sectors: sheep, dairy, deer and beef. First, data were gathered regarding the reasons for farmers looking to adopt new technology and strategies for intensification of production. Next, potential technologies for adoption in each sector were identified. Finally, farmers’ views on the likely impact of adoption of pre...

The expansion of sugarcane for biofuels is a highly contentious issue. The growth of sugarcane area has occurred simultaneously with a reduction of dairy production in São Paulo state, the primary production region for sugar and ethanol in Brazil. This paper analyses different dairy farm rationales to continue dairy production in the context of a dramatically expanding sugarcane economy. Combin...

Inter-state migration in search of livelihood is an important feature of the Indian economy. The direction of migration is determined by the direction of the inequality. Rural-urban migration is a mechanism of adjustment by an individual or group to development gaps created between the dynamic industrial sector in urban/peri-urban areas and the more inert agricultural sector in rural areas (Gue...

agriculture is an important engine of growth and poverty reduction in much of africa, nigeria inclusive. but the sector is underperforming in part because women, who are often crucial resource in agriculture and rural economy, face constraints that reduce their productivity. an understanding of these constraints is a prerequisite to devising policies to improve agricultural production and produ...

Present position ‘To state the position of New Zealand food exports in concentrated form, I present Table I , which I believe to be reasonably accurate, showing quantities of food commodities received in Great Britain from New Zealand before the war, and for each year following 1938. Annual fluctuations will be noticed. Tables 2 and 3 give interesting data relating to production in New Zealand ...

There are issues when researchers want to consider homogeneous, with regard to some functional relationship, groups. For example, in representative farm modelling analysts are interested in specifying groups of farms that have the same input/output relationship. This paper proposes to use the underlying functional relationship to derive such groupings. The paper employs finite regression mixtur...