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This article aims at evaluating and analysing the production efficiency of farms (FF) in the locality of Zoetele, South Cameroon. From a sample of 62 FF, we first estimate a model of Data Envelopment Analysis with constant and variable returns to scale, then a censored TOBIT model enabling...
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This study analyzes the impact of the Mid-Term Review (MTR) on the agricultural sector in Schleswig-Holstein, a federal state in Germany. First, a very detailed farm group linear programming model is built to quantify the effects on agricultural production and farm incomes. The production...
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Medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) provide opportunities for developing a variety of safe and cost effective, prophylactic, and curative medicines for a number of maladies. It is estimated that the primary health care of over 80 per cent of the world’s population still depends on plant based...
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The valuation of farmland is a perennial issue for agricultural policy, given its importance in the farm investment portfolio. Despite the significance of farmland values to farmer wealth, prediction remains a difficult task. This study develops a dynamic information measure to examine the...
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) policies to develop, structurally adjust and diversify agriculture, and (2) territorial approaches for policies to create and … the negotiation of the agricultural chapter are summarised: Small-scale family farms. A considerable number of farms are … quite small, with three hectares or less. Few family farms exceed ten hectares. Dairy farms. Dairy production plays an …
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This paper uses Malawian panel data to show the importance of geography and family relationships when studying … tend to be insured further from home than idiosyncratic ones. When viewed from a motivational perspective, family … amongst members of the same family in insuring shocks. Inter-household remittances are closely linked to social networks, with …
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on contribution. The burden of the large family size, household poverty and loan availed by the household is shared by … also largely shared by the urban informally employed women, i.e. they struggle more for family survival. However, number of …
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Abstract. This paper analyzes matching markets where agent types are n-vectors of characteristics--i.e. points in R^n --and agents prefer matches that are closer to them according to a distance metric on this set (horizontal preferences). First, given a few assumptions, I show that in the...
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This paper develops a model of choice between marriage and cohabitation to study the effect of divorce costs on marriage decision. The paired agents are heterogeneous, the utility is non-transferable, and break up and divorce decisions are modeled explicitly as unilateral, that is, it takes the...
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It is usual to formulate policies that react on the consequences, not the causes of family structure. In the design of … toward efficient institutions. The purposes of this paper are: a) to analyse the family trends in past decades; b) to … consider the economic externalities of the family (child rearing and human capital investment; social assistance for the …
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