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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Agricultural Household"”.
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The Agricultural Household in Bangladesh: A Disaggregated Empirical Analysis With Particular Emphasis on the Demand for Food Calories
… of consumption behavior of urban and rural households and look for existing differences. Using Todaro's model of expected wages for a migrant worker, we calculate the net benefit derived from rural-urban migration. Under realistic assumptions, we show that the benefit derived from …
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The Rice Economy of Thailand: Supply, Demand and Price
… the rice consumption decisions of rice producing households through an agricultural household model, after recognizing the characteristics of rice households as both producers and consumers. The Cobb-Douglas production function is used for production decisions, while the linear expenditure system …
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Labor productivity, remittance use, and the impact of the poverty alleviation fund program in Nepal
… I estimate the labor productivity of agricultural household because most of the agricultural households in developing countries work in their own farms, it is not possible to observe wages. The first chapter estimates the shadow wage (marginal productivity of labor) of the agricultural …
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Three Essays on the Interactions between Agriculture and the Environment
… between agriculture and the environment: agricultural technology adoption and its environmental impacts (in the first essay), and weather shocks and their impacts on rural households in developing countries (in the second and third essays). The first essay proposes a multimarket …
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Three essays on the adoption and impacts of improved maize varieties in Ethiopia
Public agricultural research has been conducted in Africa for decades and has generated numerous crop technologies, while little is understood on how agricultural research affects the poor and vulnerable groups such as children, and how farmers' perceptions affect their adoption decisions. This …
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The Post-frontier: Land use and social change in the Brazilian Amazon (1992 - 2002)
… and biodiversity. The expansion of the agricultural frontier by small landholder farmers continues to be one of the major drivers of land use change in the Amazon region. Much of the recent research in the Brazilian Amazon has been focused on modeling their behavior in order to prescribe …
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Impact of coordinated asset transfers and asset ownership on poverty reduction, women's empowerment, and child education: evidence from Zambia and Tanzania
… effects on child education. I find that household durables and housing-quality characteristics have the expected positive effects, but agricultural assets have adverse effects on highest grade completed and test scores. I extend the agricultural-household model by explicitly including …
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The Economics of Tobacco Production and Feasible Alternatives in Uganda
… pitfalls, especially in rural contexts where households are dependent on tobacco leaf production. This study focuses on the adjustment strategies open to tobacco-growing households particularly on Article 17 of the FCTC which is a strategic policy guideline that supports economically viable …
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APPLYING HAZARD ANALYSIS CRITICAL CONTROL POINT (HACCP) PRINCIPLES TO MITIGATE AFLATOXIN CONTAMINATION IN MAIZE PRODUCTION IN GHANA
… production risk, and economic losses in Ghana's agricultural sector. This study uses the hazard analysis critical control point (HACCP) principle to estimate the cost and benefit of aflatoxin prevention in maize production. It also identifies critical control points (CCPs) across the maize value …