This paper examines the impact of spatial connectivity development on household income growth and non-agriculture labor supply, combining household panel data and village census in Indonesia. Empirical results show that the impacts of the improvement of local road quality in the area (positively...

La configuracion actual de los sistemas agroalimentarios y la evolucion de las caracteristicas de la demanda de alimentos han motivado en los ultimos anos la proliferacion, en diferentes paises, de un conjunto de estrategias que representan una busqueda de alternativas a las formas mas...

This article investigates the impact of nonfarm employment on farm household income and way out of poverty, using farm household data from Brong-Ahafo region of Ghana. A propensity score matching model is used to evaluate the impact participating in both wage and self-employment. Separate...

This paper examines potential of contract farming as a rural development tool by revealing its effect on productivity and income of small holders in tea production in north-western Vietnam. In the present research, three economic analyses are applied. First, the technical efficiency of tea...

El articulo reviso el debate suscitado en torno al Informe 2008 del Banco Mundial didicado especificamente al tema <<Agricultura para el Desarrollo>. El Informe ha tenido considerables repercusiones politicas, contribuyendo a situar la atencion a la agricultura en el centro de la agenda de desarrollo internacional, y ha abierto...</<agricultura>

La intencion del presente texto es contribuir a la reflecion sobre los fenomenos relacionados con la bueva functionalidad del mundo rural y las valoraciones que se realizan desde los medios urbanos. Pretendemos argumentar que el turismo en las zonas rurales se encueritra articulado a las nuevas...

El objetivo de este trabajo es el desarrollo, con la participacion de los grupos de un colectivo. Esta experienca se apoya en una investigacion llevada a cabo con agricultores y responsables profesionales (Proyecto Aquae (4) en la cuenca hidrografica para evaluar el consumo de agua, las perdidas...

This paper deals with the estimation of a random coefficient model. The virtue of this approach is that it considers firm heterogeneity, which conventional SFA models do not. When the model is applied to Polish farms, the results indicate that the conventional random and fixed effect models...

Seasonal wage labour was rarely distinguished from the permanent one in farm-household models although it has sharply increased in developed countries. Therefore, we propose to endogenize the demand for this peculiar labour type and highlight the trade-offs for the various labour combinations on...

Politicians and farm lobbyists frequently use the argument that agricultural policy is necessary to safeguard jobs in agriculture. We explore whether this is true by conducting an econometric ex-post evaluation of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy in the three East German States...