Essays about: "farm household model"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 essays containing the words farm household model.

1. 1. Does the Single Farm Payment associate with different types of farm income? : a study on how the SFP affect various incomes from farming

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

   Author : Charlott Häggman Othzén; [2020]
   Keywords : CAP; economics; farming income; SFP;

   Abstract : This paper investigates the impacts the Single Farm Payment has on farming household incomes, business income and service income. The aim of the study is to see whether the Single farm payment has any correlation with the various incomes. READ MORE

3. 2. Why People Are Moving Out of Agriculture: Micro-Evidence from Uganda and Ethiopia

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Jasmin Bina; [2020]
   Keywords : Rural Non-Farm Economy; Ethiopia; Uganda; Push Factors; Pull Factors; Capacity Factors; Multinomial Logit Model; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : This paper studies the determinants shaping the likelihood of being active in the non-farm sector in the rural economies of Sub-Saharan Africa. More specifically, the push, pull and capacity factors for a cross-sectional sample of rural Uganda and Ethiopia are explored. READ MORE

4. 3. Analysis of production risk and technical efficiency amongst smallholder livestock farmers in Botswana

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

   Author : Boitshepo Chube; [2019]
   Keywords : production risk; technical inefficiency; smallholder farmers; Botswana;

   Abstract : Achieving full efficiency is what every farmer desires to attain however due to constraints that they are faced with this is usually not possible. This study uses cross-section data to identify the shocks or risks that Botswana’s smallholder livestock producers are exposed to as well as their coping strategies. READ MORE

5. 4. Social capital as a determinant of farmlevel sustainable land management adoption : a case study of smallholder farmers in Northern Benin

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

   Author : Olivia Riemer; [2018]
   Keywords : sustainable land management; social capital; agricultural technology adoption; principal component analysis; ordered probit model; benin;

   Abstract : In many developing countries high rates of farmland degradation contribute to the low performance of smallholder agriculture and pose serious policy challenges. Despite promotion efforts by government and non-governmental organizations adoption of improved agricultural production technologies remains low in Sub-Saharan Africa. READ MORE

6. 5. Subsistence and semi-subsistence farms in Hungary : role, determinants and directions

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

   Author : Melinda Süveg; [2015]
   Keywords : farm household model; Hungary; ; subsistence; ; semi-subsistence; imperfect market; seemingly unrelated regressions; transaction cost;

   Abstract : This study aimed to define and characterise subsistence and semi-subsistence farms (SSFs) in the Hungarian context, with particular attention given to identifying the determinants of their production, labour allocation and market participation decisions. In order to reveal the determining factors of Hungarian SSFs’ market participation and sales decisions for goods and labour, the thesis identified the household’s seven simultaneous decision equations and econometrically estimated them using a 2013 cross-sectional dataset of Hungarian SSFs and the seemingly unrelated regressions (SUR) framework. READ MORE