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Cost efficiency, Morishima, Allen-Uzawa and cross-price elasticities among Irish potato farmers in Dedza District, Malawi by Assa, M.M., Edriss, A.K., Matchaya, Greenwell C.

“…The highest input substitution existed between labour and fertilizer, followed by seed-fertilizer. …”
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Estimating effects of constraints on food security in Malawi: policy lessons from regressions quantiles by Matchaya, Greenwell C., Chilonda, Pius

“…Education and consumer worker ratio are also important signifying the role that knowledge and labour play in deciding household level food security. …”
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Policy options for market-oriented livestock production by smallholder producers: The Casren Project by Lapar, Ma. Lucila

“…Application to a sample of Philippine smallholders reveals important insights about the competing influences of transactions costs, labour mobility, capital formation and credit use on the market participation and supply decisions. …”
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The global distribution of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever by Messina, J.P., Pigott, D.M., Golding, N., Duda, K.A., Brownstein, J.S., Weiss, Daniel J., Gibson, H., Robinson, Timothy P., Gilbert, M., Wint, G.R.W., Nuttall, P.A., Gething, P.W., Myers, M.F., George, D.B., Hay, S.I.

“…Domestic and wild vertebrates are asymptomatic reservoirs for the virus, putting animal handlers, slaughter-house workers and agricultural labourers at highest risk in endemic areas, with secondary transmission possible through contact with infected blood and other bodily fluids. …”
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Climatic and non-climatic factors influencing changing agricultural practices across different rainfall regimes in South Asia by Bhatta, Gopal Datt, Aggarwal, Pramod K., Kristjanson, Patricia M., Shrivastava, Amit Kumar

“…We find evidence across all sites, irrespective of rainfall and climatic stresses, that market-related forces (such as higher yields and better market opportunity) and resource issues (such as declining fertility, labour shortage and biotic factors) have been a strong driver of changes in farming practices over the last ten years relative to climatic factors. …”
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Renen och nötkreaturet : en jämförelse mellan två olika typer av idisslare by Wahlstedt, Elisabet

“…Herding is an extensive system which requires a significant amount of land and labour and describes the reindeer industry. Cattle are true grass and roughage eaters; they are well adapted to utilising fibre-rich food and therefore a different production system is used for cattle. …”

Mullsådd ur ekonomi- och miljöperspektiv by Holmqvist, Kristofer, Hvalgren, Bengt

“…The purpose with this project has been to investigate if it's an option to use conservation tillage at a farm size of 100 ha with the following crop sequence: • Sugar beets • Winter wheat • Brewer's barley + re-seed • Winter rape/red clover • Winter wheat (winter wheat + mustard in the conservated system) We have compared conventional farming (mouldboard ploughing) with conservation tillage and we have come to the following conclusions: • Less manpower with 0,65 h/ha • Less labour costs with 116 Skr/ha • Less fuel costs with 96 Skr/ha • Machinery savings with 321 Skr/ha • Increased gross margin with 868 Skr/ha From environmental view we have been able to state the following facts: • Less erosion • Increased water quality • Increased soil quality • Decreased use of pesticides when using good crop sequences • Less pesticide in the nature…”
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New insights on efficiency and productivity analysis: Evidence from vegetable-poultry integration in rural Tanzania by Habiyaremye, Naphtal, Tabe-Ojong, Martin P., Ochieng, Justus, Chagamoka, Takemore

“…Specifying the Cobb-Douglas functional form in the stochastic production frontier, we find evidence of the direct impact of farm size, fertilizer quantity, labour cost and seed cost on productivity. While younger farmers are observed with the greatest level of efficiency, male farmers are more technically efficient than their female counterparts. …”
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Maize farmer preferences for intercropping systems to reduce Striga in Malawi by Silberg, T.R., Richardson, R.B., López, M.C.

“…Results indicate that farmers are willing (and in some cases unwilling) to sacrifice different fractions of maize yield for suppression of Striga, labour intensity, soil fertility and intercropped legume yield. …”
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A comparative analysis of gender and youth issues in rice production in North, Central, and South Vietnam by Duyen, Tran Nhat Lam, Rañola, Roberto F., Sander, Björn Ole, Wassmann, Reiner, Nguyen, Dinh Tien, Ngoc, Nong Nguyen Khanh

“…The key challenges of youth engagement include drudgery in farm operations, labour-intensive technologies, low profit, inadequate access to land and credit, and lack of agricultural insurance scheme. …”
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Games as boundary objects: Charting trade-offs in sustainable livestock transformation by Morris, J., Ensor, J.E., Pfeifer, Catherine, Marchant, R., Mulatu, D., Soka, G., Ouédraogo-Koné, S., Wakeyo, M.B., Topi, C.

“…Using structured boundary objects elicited trade-offs between household food and animal feed, and between livestock for income, labour, and/ or cultural functions, reflecting the context-specific and subjective evaluations actors make when attempting to plan livelihood changes. …”
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Travel time to livestock markets,dairy markets, input suppliers, livestock service providers, financial credit providers, and water bodies by Fraval, Simon, Mutua, John Y., Notenbaert, An Maria Omer, Thornton, Philip K., Duncan, Alan J.

“…The feasibility of introducing each technology is assessed using proxies for seven attributes: land availability, water availability, labour, capital expenditure, access to inputs, requirement for skill/knowledge and market-pull. …”
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The forest-based farming system: highly diverse, annual and perennial systems under threat by Hauser, Stefan, Norgrove, L., Tollens, E., Nolte, C., Robiglio, Valentina, Gockowski, J.

“…FBFS farmers are highly food secure yet poorly connected to markets and service providers, thus severely cash-constrained and suffering from a lack of financial, medical, educational and social services rendering families vulnerable and cut off from urban employment opportunities. Due to low labour input FBFS achieve relatively low crop yields yet they are productive because of their often high soil fertility; they draw heavily on the natural resource base for relatively low outputs. …”
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Immediate impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on bean value chain in selected countries in sub-Saharan Africa by Nchanji, Eileen Bogweh, Lutomia, Cosmas Kweyu, Chirwa, Rowland, Templer, Noel, Rubyogo, Jean-Claude, Onyango, Patricia

“…Descriptive analysis of data collected from bean farmers, aggregators, processors, bean regional coordinators, and mechanization dealers reveal that COVID-19 and government restrictions had impacted the availability and cost of farm inputs and labour, distribution, and consumption of beans in Eastern and Southern Africa. …”
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Differential household vulnerability to climatic and non-climatic stressors in semi-arid areas of Mali, West Africa by Segnon, Alcade C, Totin, Edmond, Zougmoré, Robert B., Lokossou, Jourdain C., Thompson-Hall, Mary, Ofori, Benjamin O, Achigan-Dako, Enoch G., Gordon, Christopher

“…Findings showed that while drought was the most mentioned climate-related stressor, households were also exposed to a diversity of environmental and socio-economic stressors, including food scarcity, livestock disease, labour unavailability, crop damage, and erratic rainfall patterns. …”
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Determinants of Women's Decision-Making Power in Pest and Disease Management: Evidence From Uganda by Okonya, J., Mudege, Netsayi N., Nyaga, J.N., Jogo, W.

“…We found that farming experience, use of hired labour and membership to a farmers group, were positively associated with woman's autonomy in decision-making during pest and disease management. …”
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Women’s work is never done: Lifting the gendered burden of firewood collection and household energy use in Kenya by Njenga, M., Gitau, J. K., Mendum, R.

“…Income from sale of two timber trees was adequate to meet the cost of labour for pruning trees on-farm and carrying home a year’s supply of firewood for families without members who can do the work. …”
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The dynamics of youth employment and empowerment in agriculture and rural development in South Africa: a scoping review by Geza, W., Ngidi, M. S. C., Slotow, R., Mabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe

“…The findings showed that youth are still facing significant challenges in the demand and supply side of the labour market and lack of inclusivity in policy formulation and implementation, limiting their involvement in agriculture and rural development initiatives. …”
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Oil palm production, income gains, and off-farm employment among independent producers in Cameroon by Tabe-Ojong, Martin Paul Jr., Molua, Ernest L., Nanfouet, Marco Alberto, Mkong, Cynthia J., Kiven, Vanessa, Ntegang, Venant Atem

“…We, therefore, conclude that oil palm production could be a crucial and inclusive profitable venture to increase smallholder incomes and improve livelihoods in rural and forested environments, but significant potentials exist to make the sector more profitable, less labour-intensive and environmentally-friendly in native production zones.…”
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Household economics of cocoa agroforestry: costs and benefits by Boadi, S.A., Bosselmann, A.S., Owusu, K., Asare, R., Olwig, M.F.

“…Comparing low and medium tree diversity systems, we find that income from cocoa beans, timber and fruit trees are higher and labour costs are lower in plots with medium diversity, while insecticide costs are lower on low-diversity plots. …”
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