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Book Synopsis Migration, local off-farm employment, and agricultural production efficiency by : Yang, Jin
Download or read book Migration, local off-farm employment, and agricultural production efficiency written by Yang, Jin and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper studies the effect of local off-farm employment and migration on rural households technical efficiency of crop production using a five-year panel dataset from more than 2,000 households in five Chinese provinces. While there is not much debate about the positive contribution of migration and local off-farm employment to Chinas economy, there is an increasing concern about the potential negative effects of moving labor away from agriculture on Chinas future food security. This is a critical issue as maintaining self-sufficiency in grain production will be critical for China to feed its huge population in the future. Several papers have studied the impact of migration on production and yield with mixed results. But the impact of migration on technical efficiency is rarely studied. Methodologically, we incorporate the correlated random-effects approach into the standard stochastic production frontier model to control for unobservable that are correlated with migration and off-farm employment decisions and technical efficiency. The most consistent result that emerged from our econometric analysis is that neither migration nor local off-farm employment has a negative effect on the technical efficiency of grain production, which does not support the widespread notion that vast-scale labor migration could negatively affect Chinas future food security.
Book Synopsis Specialization Without Regret by : Michael R. Carter
Download or read book Specialization Without Regret written by Michael R. Carter and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In China, where collectives own farmland but farmers may hold "use rights" to the land, a case can be made for a property rights system with incomplete security of tenure but with strong transfer rights, which permit "specialization without regret"-- so farmers can recoup the value of an investment even if they exit farming.
Book Synopsis Migration from Agriculture by : Donald William Gailey
Download or read book Migration from Agriculture written by Donald William Gailey and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Determinants of the Migration of Labor Out of Agriculture in the United States by : Andrew Paul Barkley
Download or read book The Determinants of the Migration of Labor Out of Agriculture in the United States written by Andrew Paul Barkley and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Agriculture for development in Iraq? Estimating the impacts of achieving the agricultural targets of the national development plan 20132017 on economic growth, incomes, and gender equality by : Al-Haboby, Azhr
Download or read book Agriculture for development in Iraq? Estimating the impacts of achieving the agricultural targets of the national development plan 20132017 on economic growth, incomes, and gender equality written by Al-Haboby, Azhr and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper estimates the potential effects of achieving the agricultural goals set out in Iraqs National Development Plan (NDP) 20132017 using a dynamic computable general equilibrium model. The findings suggest that raising agricultural productivity in accordance with the NDP may more than double average agricultural growth rates and add an average of 0.7 percent each year to economywide gross domestic product during the duration of the plan. As a consequence, the economy not only diversifies into agriculture, but agricultural growth also lifts growth in the food processing and service sectors. Achieving the yield targets for cereals (especially wheat) and for fruits and vegetables will have the largest impact on economic growth and household incomes. Household incomes will rise by an estimated 3.3 percent annually. This increase in household incomes will benefit the poorest households and female-headed urban households the most due to a combination of lower food prices and higher incomes from labor and land. Reaping these benefits from agricultural growth will critically depend on the implementation of policies and investments to ensure that additional agricultural produce can be marketed efficiently domestically and compete with imports.
Book Synopsis Womens individual and joint property ownership by : Doss, Cheryl
Download or read book Womens individual and joint property ownership written by Doss, Cheryl and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasingly, womens property rights are seen as important for both equity and efficiency reasons. While there has been debate in the literature about women are better off with individual rights in contrast to rights jointly with their husband, little empirical work has analyzed this question. In this paper, the relationship of womens individual and joint property ownership and the level of womens input into household decisionmaking is explored with data from India, Mali, Malawi, and Tanzania. In the three African countries, women with individual landownership have greater input into household decisionmaking than women whose landownership is joint; both have more input than women who are not landowners. The relationship with other household decisions is more mixed, as is the relationship between housing and input into household decisionmaking. No similar relationship is found in Orissa, India.
Book Synopsis Harvest Of Confusion by : Philip L Martin
Download or read book Harvest Of Confusion written by Philip L Martin and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended as the first building block to assist in the development of realistic solutions for migrant farmworker issues in the U.S. It analyzes the vast and diverse data and literature which generate the confusion over the number and distribution of farmworkers who work in agriculture.
Book Synopsis Farming Systems and Poverty by : John A. Dixon
Download or read book Farming Systems and Poverty written by John A. Dixon and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A joint FAO and World Bank study which shows how the farming systems approach can be used to identify priorities for the reduction of hunger and poverty in the main farming systems of the six major developing regions of the world.
Book Synopsis How Does Migration Affect Agricultural Labor Productivity? by : Melissa A. Ramirez Rodrigues
Download or read book How Does Migration Affect Agricultural Labor Productivity? written by Melissa A. Ramirez Rodrigues and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSTRACT: Using micro-level agricultural data from the ENHRUM survey, I examine the impact of international labor-out migration on the agricultural production of Mexican rural households. The study evaluates how households reallocate labor and capital resources as consequence of labor out-migration and incorporates a productivity variable to measure the efficiency of this reallocation. Estimating a Heckman Two-Stage model we capture the labor productivity of the household accounting for the selectivity of landholding. The results suggest that international labor-out migration and the formation of social networks have a negative impact on the household labor productivity. Migrant households are less labor productive than households with no migratory experience by 28,655.31 Mexican pesos. It seems that migrant households are not investing enough in capital-intensive resources to compensate for the reduction in labor supply. Changes in the intra-household allocation of labor are not observed. The education level of the household head and spouse, the tenancy status of the land and the location of the household are other factors affecting the labor productivity of the household.
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Book Synopsis The Migration of Farm Labor by : United States. Farm security administration (Department of Agriculture)
Download or read book The Migration of Farm Labor written by United States. Farm security administration (Department of Agriculture) and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Importing Poverty? by : Philip L. Martin
Download or read book Importing Poverty? written by Philip L. Martin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American agriculture employs some 2.5 million workers during a typical year. Three fourths of these farm workers are immigrants, half are unauthorized, and most will leave seasonal farm work within a decade. This book looks at what these statistics mean for farmers, labourers, and rural America.
Book Synopsis An evaluation of the effectiveness of farmland protection policy in China by : Li, Man
Download or read book An evaluation of the effectiveness of farmland protection policy in China written by Li, Man and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost two decades have passed since China first enacted legislation to protect farmland from conversion to nonagricultural use. Yet hundreds of thousands of hectares of agricultural land are still developed to urban area each year, raising the question of whether the legislation is effective in preserving farmland from development. This paper examines the effectiveness of the Basic Farmland Protection Regulation in protecting high-quality farmland from urban development in China in the first decade after it came into effect (1995?2005). The theoretical basis for this study is a spatial urban development model with a splitting equation. The empirical evaluation is conducted with georeferenced, longitudinal data on more than 2,000 counties in the country. Results indicate that the Regulation was effective in preserving farmland with high productivity potential only during the period 1995?2000. There is no evidence of effectiveness of the Regulation in protecting lands with good irrigation conditions or lands more suitable for growing major food grains. Farmland development induces the conversion of non-farmland to crop production. This substitution effect declined from 1986 to 2005 and is therefore less likely to be exaggerated by the enforcement of the dynamic balance strategy.
Book Synopsis Land governance, integrated socio-ecosystem and sustainable development by : Chen Zeng
Download or read book Land governance, integrated socio-ecosystem and sustainable development written by Chen Zeng and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-06-23 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Examining the sense and science behind Ghanas current blanket fertilizer recommendation by : Chapoto, Antony
Download or read book Examining the sense and science behind Ghanas current blanket fertilizer recommendation written by Chapoto, Antony and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper was written to help bolster the case and present visual evidence demonstrating why it is important to seriously consider spatial soil fertility variability in Ghana and to promote area-specific fertilizer recommendations. Using geostatistical analysis of soil samples collected from farmer plots in three districts (Tamale Municipality, Savelugu-Nanton, and West Mamprusi in northern Ghana), the paper analyzes spatial variations in soil fertility. The results clearly show that there are variations in soil pH, organic matter content, and available phosphorous even at the community level, supporting the need for Ghana to seriously consider location-specific fertilizer recommendations.
Book Synopsis Migration, Agriculture and Rural Development by : Michele Nori
Download or read book Migration, Agriculture and Rural Development written by Michele Nori and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access short reader looks into the dynamics which have reshaped rural development and human landscapes in European agriculture and the role of immigrant people. Within this framework it analyses contemporary rural migrations and the emergence of immigrants in relation to the incorporation of agrarian systems into global markets, the European agricultural governance (CAP), and the struggle of local territories as differentiated practices in constant stress between innovation and resilience. It specifically explores the case of immigrant shepherds to describe the reconfiguration of agriculture systems and rural landscapes in Europe following intense immigration and the related provision of skilled labour at a relatively low cost. Being written in a very accessible way, this reader is an interesting read to students, researchers, academics, policy makers, and practitioners.
Book Synopsis The Agricultural Exodus in the Philippines: Are Wage Differentials Driving the Process? by : Mr. Eugenio M Cerutti
Download or read book The Agricultural Exodus in the Philippines: Are Wage Differentials Driving the Process? written by Mr. Eugenio M Cerutti and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2021-08-20 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lagging labor reallocations outside agriculture amid sustained low agricultural productivity have been a key feature in the Philippines over the past 15 years. An analysis of the labor adjustments in and out of agriculture shows that a variety of factors have influenced this process. We find that the widening of wage differentials with non-agricultural sectors, improvements in labor market efficiency, and better transport infrastructure are largely associated with growing outflows of labor from agriculture, whilst the lack of post-primary education and the presence of agricultural clusters hinder such outflows. In contrast to the traditional view that agricultural employment outflows are largely driven by productivity differences and wage differentials, our results emphasize the roles of education as well as transport infrastructure in facilitating labor reallocations from agriculture to non-agriculture.
Book Synopsis The impact of cash and food transfers: Evidence from a randomized intervention in Niger by : Hoddinott, John F.
Download or read book The impact of cash and food transfers: Evidence from a randomized intervention in Niger written by Hoddinott, John F. and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is little rigorous evidence on the comparative impacts of cash and food transfers on food security and food-related outcomes. We assess the relative impacts of receiving cash versus food transfers using a randomized design. Drawing on data collected in eastern Niger, we find that households randomized to receive a food basket experienced larger, positive impacts on measures of food consumption and diet quality than those receiving the cash transfer.