Sökning: "agricultural household model"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 uppsatser innehållade orden agricultural household model.
1. Social capital as a determinant of farmlevel sustainable land management adoption : a case study of smallholder farmers in Northern Benin
Master-uppsats, SLU/Dept. of EconomicsSammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER
2. Subsistence and semi-subsistence farms in Hungary : role, determinants and directions
Master-uppsats, SLU/Dept. of EconomicsSammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER
3. Off-farm income and technical efficiency of smallholder farmers in Ethiopia : a stochastic frontier analysis
Master-uppsats, SLU/Dept. of EconomicsSammanfattning : As in most developing countries, agricultural production in Ethiopia is dominated by subsistence-based smallholder farmers, whose production and incomes from the sector are constrained by socio-economic, institutional, resource and environmental factors. These factors generally attribute for lower productivity of the sector, which in turn forces farmers to participate in off-farm activities in order to diversify their sources of income. LÄS MER
4. The role of agricultural commercialization for smallholders productivity and food security : an empirical study in rural Ethiopia
Master-uppsats, SLU/Dept. of EconomicsSammanfattning : For the past few decades, continuing economic and demographic change across the world has brought an excess demand for different types of agricultural products. As a result, policy makers and international institutions have been advocating several policy instruments aimed to boost agricultural production and food security. LÄS MER
5. A multi-scale analysis of biofuel-related land acquisitions in Tanzania : with focus on Sweden as an investor
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskapSammanfattning : Spurred on by pressure to find sustainable energy production alternatives to fossil fuels, many industries have been acquiring land in order to plant crops for biofuel production. In Tanzania, biofuel development is in an early stage, and over the last decade, several foreign actors have tried to start up biofuel projects in the country (without success). LÄS MER
