The mterrelat10nsh1p between off-farm employment and land use intensity among small farmers was examined. A farm survey of 3,333 farm households and secondary data from Korea were used for the empmcal analysis. A simultaneous equations model that contamed both quahtative and continuous...

This paper attempts to analyze quantitatively the link between food aid and surplus production in the maJOr food aid donor countnes. Simple regression models were estimated for wheat, coarse grams, and nee using data for 1962-82, depending on the commodity and donor. Carryover stocks and world...

An analysis of the staple grain economies of ten African countries shows that declining per capita food production has not been offset by mcreased imports. The impact ofweathervanation, pa1ticularly drought, has been severe, reducing annual product10n by as much as 50 percent at times. Pohcies...

Integrated development programmes were implemented m many Latin American countries m the 1970s m response to the failures of industrialization policies to allevtate poverty. A massive integrated rural development programme in Brazil's Northeast is assessed with respect to its production,...

This paper examiens the efficiency of labour allocation and the productivity of labour by gender between and within farms and nonfarm enterprises on Thai farms. Cobb-Douglas production functions are estimated for both types of enterprises, using disaggregated data. The estimated parameters of...

Through a series of economic development plans launched since 1953, Taiwan's economy has been transformed from bemgpredommantly agricultural to having industry as the leadmg sector. Throughout that process, farmers faced more and more uncertamt1es. Instead of an increase m farm size due to the...

This paper outlines the decline of egg and pigmeat production in Northern Ireland during 1972-82 and examines the factors that appear to have caused that decline. The extend to which it was due to European Community (EC) membership or other independent influences is assessed. The consequences of...

This study estimates the respective comparative advantage of the production of five crops in Taiwan and investigates how government policies have influenced their production and trade. Rice, soyabeans, and maize cannot be produced economically because their domestic resource costs are higher...

This study refers to the agricultural growth patter in the more and less developed regions of peninsular India during 1955/56-1978/79. The effective use of factor analysis for planning appropriate strategies is empirically demonstrated. The main feature of the study is the use of factor analysis...

Widely accepted views among technical personnel and particularly developmnent programme administrators are that the explanation of widespread range of degradation in pastoral areas lies in the problem of common property (whereby private benefits from putting additional livestock on the range...