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A Healthy, Inclusive, and Sustainable Food Systems Approach for India by Singh, Vartika, Das, Prantika, Jha, Chandan, Ghosh, Ranjan Kumar, Stevanovic, Miodrag, Lotze-Campen, Hermann, Popp, Alexander

“…However, livelihoods improve from higher wages and lower economic costs of production. Transformative actions encouraging agricultural labor engagements can potentially increase the share of labor requirements to 73.5% by 2050, compared to 67% in the baseline, thereby enhancing employment opportunities for nine million individuals. …”
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Monitoreo de las plantas de secado by Bode, P.

“…Based on the information collected during project monitoring (amount of cassava sold, sale price, labor costs, profits, no. of beneficiaries and land tenancy, and investment costs), the impact of the project from Aug. 1987 through July 1988 is also analyzed. …”
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CGIAR Research Program on Maize by CGIAR Research Program on Maize

“…This research program aims to double maize productivity by 2050 with essentially no expansion of maize area through more intensive, sustainable, and resilient farming systems that are adapted to climate change and the risings costs of fertilizer, water, and labor, and by introducing the latest seed varieties, precision agriculture techniques, and technologies for smallholder farmers. …”
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The rapid-but from a low base-uptake of agricultural mechanization in Ethiopia: Patterns, implications, and challenges by Berhane, Guush, Dereje, Mekdim, Minten, Bart, Tamru, Seneshaw

“…We note an impressive increase in imports of combine harvesters and of tractors, seemingly associated with the increasing costs of agricultural labor and animal traction, for which agricultural mechanization can substitute. …”
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Investment and productivity in Canadian and U.S. food marketing by Chan-Kang, Connie, Buccola, Steven, Kerkvliet, Joe

“…A restricted cost function model of Canadian and US. food manufacturing shows that productivity growth rates in Canada have remained well below those in the United States for the past decade and a half: At mean factor prices, output, and capital quantities, processing costs would be 22% lower in the U.S. than in Canada. …”
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Opportunities, challenges, and interventions for agriculture 4.0 adoption by Vijayakumar, Shanmugam, Murugaiyan, Varunseelan, Ilakkiya, S., Kumar, Virender, Sundaram, Raman Meenakshi, Kumar, Rapolu Mahender

“…Higher production costs, declining profitability, labor shortages, increasing wages, environmental degradation, and freshwater scarcity are major issues in agriculture. …”
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Manual or motorized postharvest operations of pearl millet in Maradi, Niger: effects on time and energy use, profitability, and farmers' perceptions by Nourou, A.I.M., Garba, M., Grimsby, L.K., Aune, J.B.

“…The pearl millet value chain in Niger, from sowing to the production of millet flour, is mainly done using manual labor. The objective of this study was to compare manual and motorized postharvest operations in pearl millet based on several criteria: output per hour, labor and energy demand, product quality, drudgery (measured by heart rate), profitability, farmers' perceptions of quality and cost of operations, and adoption rates. …”
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Community natural resource management: the case of woodlots in northern Ethiopia by Gebremedhin, Berhanu, Pender, John L., Tesfaye, Girmay

“…The negative effect of market access suggests that higher opportunity costs of labor and/or increased “exit options” undermine collective resource management. …”
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Insights for enhancing gender equity and social inclusion through sustainable intensification of mixed farming systems of Malawi by Homann-Kee Tui, Sabine, Snyder, Katherine A., Chiduwa, Mazvita, Liben, Feyera

“…However, socioeconomic barriers, such as limited surplus for sale, high input costs, and unfavorable markets, restricted profitability especially for resource-poor farmers. …”
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Design, development, and performance evaluation of a power-operated jute fiber extraction machine by Karim, Md. Rejaul, Hoque, Muhammad Arshadul, Chawdhury, Alamgir, Faruk-Ul-Islam, Ahmed, Sharif, EL Sabagh, Ayman, Hossain, Akbar

“…Labor unavailability and increasing labor cost have led to higher jute fiber production cost. …”
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Cities and agricultural development by Steinhuebel-Rasheed, Linda, Christiaensen, Luc, Minten, Bart, Swinnen, Johan, Vandercasteelen, Joachim

“…Third, the expansion of urban nonfarm labor markets is shifting labor away from farms, with uncertain consequences for agricultural development. …”
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Farmer-participatory evaluation of mechanized dry direct-seeding technology for rice in northeastern Thailand by Sansen, Kanlaya, Wongboon, Waraporn, Jairin, Jirapong, Kato, Yoichiro

“…Rice technologies that are designed to reduce risks due to climate variations, improve productivity, or overcome labor scarcity are important in tropical Asia. The objective of this study was to evaluate mechanized options for dry direct-seeding of rice in terms of the productivity and production costs in rainfed lowlands. …”
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Adapted conservation agriculture practices can increase energy productivity and lower yield-scaled greenhouse gas emissions in coastal Bangladesh by Krupnik, Timothy J., Hossain, Mohammed Khaled, Timsina, Jagadish, Gathala, Mahesh Kumar, Sapkota, Tek Bahadur, Yasmin, Samina, Shahjahan, Md., Hossain, Farhad, Kurishi, Alanuzzaman, Miah, Azahar Al, Saidur Rahman, B.M., McDonald, Andrew J.

“…In these environments, farmers are increasingly interested in growing a second crop to meet food security and income generation objectives in rotation following the predominant monsoon season rice crop, though labor, energy costs, and investment constraints limit their ability to do so. …”
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Value addition and farmers: Evidence from coffee in Ethiopia by Tamru, Seneshaw, Minten, Bart

“…The reasons seemingly are twofold. First, labor productivity in producing red cherries, which wet mills require, is lower than for natural coffee, reducing incentives for adoption, especially for those farmers with higher opportunity costs of labor. …”
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Agricultural intensification in Ghana: Evaluating the optimist’s case for a Green Revolution by Nin-Pratt, Alejandro, McBride, Linden

“…Overall, we do not find evidence of Asian-style Green Revolution agricultural intensification in Ghana; in fact, we find no correlation between population density and input intensity. We also find that labor costs still play a major role in Ghanaian agricultural development in limiting the adoption of labor-intensive technologies even in relatively high population density areas.…”
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Exploration of economic and environmental impacts of crop diversification in the northwestern IGP of India by Singh, L. K., Bijarniya, Deepak, Prajapat, Kailash, Jat, H. S., Choudhary, Madhu, Sharma, P. C., Kalvania, K. C., Yadav, R. K., Jat, M. L., Krupnik, Timothy J., Gathala, Mahesh K.

“…The energy-intensive rice-wheat system in the northwestern Indo-Gangetic Plain (NWIGP) significantly increases production costs and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, driven by chemical fertilizers, fossil fuels for intensive tillage, irrigation, and high labor use. …”
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Cassava starch processing at small scale in North Vietnam by Da, Guillaume, Dufour, D.L., Marouzé, Claude, Thanh, ML, Maréchal, Pierre-André

“…Production capacity, water consumption, electrical requirements and capital-labor costs per tonne of starch (12% moisture) were also reported. …”
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The economics of small-scale household pig production in Vietnam: Survey results, analysis and assessment by Que, N.N., Lapar, Ma. Lucila, Tisdell, C.A., Toan, N.N.

“…In assessing the economics of household pig production, it is important to take into account the opportunity costs of the resources used in this production. Given the current stage of Vietnam’s economic transition, the opportunity cost of the labor employed in household production seems to be low. …”
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The role of agriculture in saving the rain forest by Vosti, Stephen A.

“…In short, what is called for is a portfolio of agricultural, extractive, and nonagricultural activities that involve technological innovation designed for higher productivity of land and labor. These activities must translate into higher profitability for the farmer at lower cost to the environment and must be compatible with the constrained resource position of the small farmer.…”
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CGIAR Research Proposal 3.2: Maize: Global Alliance for Improving Food Security and the Livelihoods of the Resource-poor in the Developing World by International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

“…The strategy is designed to ensure that publicly-funded international agricultural research helps most effectively to double the productivity of maize-based farming systems, making them more resilient and sustainable and significantly increasing farmers’ income and livelihood opportunities, without using more land and as climates change and fertilizer, water, and labor costs rise. The strategy will support and greatly strengthen the efforts of national governments, the private sector, international, regional and local organizations, and farming communities, creating or capitalizing on synergies and building on the different skills, knowledge, and resources of the community that designed the strategy. …”
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