ABSTRACT: As an essential way to enhance farmers’ self-development ability, off-farm employment plays indispensable role in multidimensional poverty reduction many countries. Employing a survey of 1926 farmers five provinces the Yellow River Basin China, this paper examined multi-dimensional effect and heterogeneous influence different dimensions (modes, levels, distances frequency). The result...

This study analyzed the impact of off-farm earnings on the intensity of adoption of improved maize varieties and the productivity of maize farming in Uganda in the years 2005/06 and 2009/10. Summary statistics show significantly higher adoption intensity and expenditure on purchased inputs among households with off-farm income relative to their counterparts without off-farm income. Households w...

Membership in agricultural cooperatives may influence intra-household decisions regarding the division of household labor. However, linkages between cooperative membership and labor allocation remain unexplored. To fill this gap, we examine impact on off-farm work couples engaged farming, using data collected from 595 banana farmers China. The recursive bivariate probit model endogenous-treatme...

This paper examines the impact of various farm and household characteristics (such as farm size, the off-farm employment status, the farm operator's age and schooling and the number of family members) on the level as well as the dynamics of on-farm diversification. Using linked census data for Upper-Austria from 1980, 1985 and 1990 we provide evidence that smaller farms are more specialised and...

Overall participation in the Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS) in Maharashtra (an Indian state) fell sharply over the period 1980-97. Some of this reduction was due to expansion of irrigation facilities leading to expansion of farm employment. Alongside, expansion of non-farm employment led to a further reduction in the demand for the EGS. Although there was a slight rise in participation in su...