BACKGROUND HIV/AIDS has led to increased mortality and morbidity, negatively impacting adult labour especially in HIV/AIDS burdened Sub-Saharan Africa. There has been some exploration of the effects of HIV/AIDS on paid child labour, but little empirical work on children's non-paid child work. This paper provides quantitative evidence of how child and household-level factors affect children's in...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the association of farm exposure and the development of ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV). METHODS One hundred eighty-nine well defined patients with AAV (n = 119 with granulomatosis with polyangiitis [GPA], n = 48 with microscopic polyangiitis [MPA], n = 22 patients with eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis [EGPA]) and 190 controls (n = 119 patients with rheu...

This paper contributes to the assessment of China’s rural labor markets, while paying attention to whether these markets are developing in a manner conducive to the nation’s modernization. According to our household survey, we find that the rapid increase in off-farm employment has continued and accelerated during the late 1990s. Our analysis shows that migration has become the most prevalent o...

We study incentives for information sharing among agricultural intermediaries in imperfectly competitive markets for farm output. Information sharing always increases expected grower and total surplus, but may reduce expected intermediary profits. Even when expected profits increase with information sharing, intermediary firms face a Prisoner’s Dilemma where it is privately rational to withhold...

intergenerational succession aims at the renewal of family farm and addresses the problem of increasing aged population of principal farm owners. this study assessed poultry farm characteristics and poultry farmers’ perception of farm succession planning in southwest nigeria. a multistage sampling procedure was used in selecting poultry farmers in oyo and osun states.  data were analyzed using ...

This work proposes an innovative control technique for improving the contribution to the grid frequency regulation provided by a set of wind power generators belonging to a wind farm. Models of individual generators and of the conventional grid primary frequency control are developed and used for designing a model predictive controller. A proper estimation algorithm is also introduced in order ...

A study is presented which assesses agricultural production in a Purchase Land area over a seven-year period and tries to identify certain socio-psychological and other variables which might be acting as constraints on farming behavior in terms of change. A survey was conducted of the whole population of 198 resident farm families; it included six questionnaires. Subjects covered included agric...

The main purpose of this study was to assess participation of rural women in goat rearing. Pakulla union under Sonatola upazila of Bogra district in Bangladesh was the locale of the study. All the rural goat rearing farm family women heads of Pakulla union constituted the population of the study. Data were collected from a sample of 100 women heads selected randomly during15 December 2008 to 14...