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Efficient and participatory design of scale-appropriate agricultural machinery workshops in developing countries: A case study in Bangladesh por Gregg, Ellerbe Somers, Colton, Jonathan, Matin, Md Abdul, Krupnik, Timothy J.

“…However, increasing seasonal labor scarcity caused by rural out-migration has resulted in growing agricultural labor costs, presenting challenges to cash-constrained smallholder farmers that hire manual labor for land preparation, sowing, harvest and post-harvest operations. …”
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Meeting Ghanaian farmers' demand for a full range of mechanization services por Houssou, Nazaire, Aboagye, Patrick Ohene, Kolavalli, Shashidhara

“…Rising labor costs associated with increased rural-to-urban migration have compelled Ghanaian farmers to increase the use of tractors and other agricultural machines to conduct farming operations in the country (Diao et al. 2014). …”
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Investment and Household Bargaining in Small-scale Farming Households - A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment from Rural Tanzania por Keenan, Michael, Pamuk, Haki, Karanja Ng'ang'a, Stanley, Hella, Joseph Phillip

“…Agricultural investments often carry labor costs and market risks, and spouses negotiate and bargain to settle their conflicting preferences for risk and differing views on individual labor costs. …”
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Covid-19 lockdowns, income distribution, and food security: An analysis for South Africa por Arndt, Channing, Davies, Rob, Gabriel, Sherwin, Harris, Laurence, Makrelov, Konstantin, Robinson, Sherman, Anderson, Lillian

“…Labor with low education levels are much more strongly affected than labor with secondary or tertiary education. …”
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Moving to despair? Migration and well-being in Pakistan por Chen, Joyce, Kosec, Katrina, Mueller, Valerie

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Synopsis: Enhancing smallholder farmers’ profitability through increased crop commercialization in Rwanda por Mugabo, Serge, Warner, James

“…The analysis further identifies that farm households allocate about 80 percent of their total crop input expenditures to fertilizer, seed, and hired labor, while the remaining expenses associated with fixed production costs that are almost exclusively related to land rental costs. …”
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Internal migration and rural service provision in northern Ghana por Wouterse, Fleur Stephanie

“…Taking the possible endogeneity of rural services into account, the evidence suggests that rural service improvements aimed at reducing economic isolation can enhance labor mobility and free up on-farm labor for migration by lowering transaction costs.…”
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Effects of smoking on agricultural productivity por Haque, Samiul, Abedin, Naveen, Fakir, Adnan M. S., Hannan, Rafe, Alam, Rafa

“…Objective: We estimate the effect of primary farmer’s smoking status on the productivity of family labor working in the household’s main agricultural land; Agricultural productivity is measured by value addition per acre, which is the value of output per acre minus the costs of variable non-labor direct inputs (seeds, fertilizers and pesticides) per acre; The primary farmer is the lead decision-maker of allocation of resources for production.…”
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Rice productivity and profitability in Myanmar: Assessment of the 2023 monsoon por Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity

“…Significant changes in input costs for rice cultivation were observed between the two seasons: 3.1 Prices of urea, the most important chemical fertilizer used by rice farmers, decreased by 16 percent. 3.2 Mechanization costs surged by a notable 42 percent, which is concerning, especially in light of escalating rural labor scarcity. …”
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Monitoring the agri-food system in Myanmar: Rice millers – September 2024 survey round por Myanmar Agrifood Program for Strategy and Analysis

“…Rice prices have already risen rapidly over the past three years, raising serious concerns about affordability and food security.  Labor availability is a rising concern and rising costs of labor and fuel together with volatile byproduct markets and other business disruptions have likely contributed to rising milling margins, with a smaller share of rice price increases passed through to producers. …”
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The effects of exposure to air pollution on subjective well-being in China por Zhang, Xin, Chen, Xi, Zhang, Xiaobo

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The linkages between agriculture and malaria: Issues for policy, research, and capacity strengthening por Asenso-Okyere, Kwadwo, Asante, Felix Ankomah, Tarekegn, Jifar, Andam, Kwaw S.

“…It is equally important to know the indirect costs of seeking health care and taking care of children and others who are afflicted by malaria and the relationship of the indirect costs to the farm labor supply and productivity. …”
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Increasing returns and market efficiency in agricultural trade por Fafchamps, Marcel, Gabre-Madhin, Eleni Zaude, Minten, Bart

“…After analyzing margins, costs, and value added, we find little evidence of returns to scale. …”
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Mechanized minimum and notill crop production for research farms por Claassen, S.L.

“…Minimum-tillage, strip-tillage and no-till farming can also save energy and labor costs.…”
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Land constraints and agricultural intensification in Ethiopia: A village-level analysis of high-potential areas por Headey, Derek D., Dereje, Mekdim, Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum

“…We find strong evidence in favor of the Boserupian hypothesis that land-constrained villages typically use significantly more purchased input costs per hectare and more family labor, and achieve higher maize and teff yields and higher gross income per hectare. …”
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Economic valuation of groundwater over-exploitation in the Maghreb por Zaatra, A., Kleftodimos, G., Requier-Desjardins, M., Belhouchette, H.

“…The purpose of this paper is to carry out an economic assessment of the costs of groundwater over-exploitation in the Maghreb. …”
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Social interactions and stigmatized behavior: “Donating” blood plasma in rural China por Chen, Xi, Sahn, David E., Zhang, Xiaobo

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Is Scale-Appropriate Farm Mechanization Gendered? Learning from the Nepal Hills por Gartaula, Hom Nath, Singh, Madhulika, Paudel, Gokul Prasad

“…Gender and farm mechanization is getting attention in the academic and public policy domain as a solution to labor scarcity in the smallholder farming systems, which in recent years, is facing challenges of labor shortage due to male labor outmigration. …”
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Aspekter att beakta för en kostnadseffektiv uppfödning av slaktkvigor : tre fallstudier i nötköttsproduktion por von Braun, Adrian, Tufvesson, Lukas

Community natural resource management: The case of woodlots in northern Ethiopia por Gebremedhin, Berhanu, Pender, J.L., Tesfay, G.

“…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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