Cropland abandonment is driven by various mechanisms and best viewed from multiple perspectives to suggest targeted policy changes which may change the status quo of abandonment. Here, we systematically analyze characteristics its driving different farming households (pure, part-time, non-farm) in three topographic regions Poyang Lake region using a binary logistic regression model. Results sho...

Although a myriad of research illustrates the safety issues related to farm fatalities in youth populations, very little empirical evidence exists to describe farm fatalities to non-working youth and youth under 16 years of age. Research such as that conducted by Myers and Adekoya (2001) and Castillo et al. (1999) utilize surveillance systems such as the National Traumatic Occupational Fataliti...

Statistics on the machinery performance are essential for farm managers to make better decisions. In this paper, the performance of all machineries in five sequential operations, namely bed forming, stone separation, planting, spraying and harvesting in the potato production system, were investigated during one growing season. In order to analyse and decompose the recorded GPS data into various...

The higher intensity of labor observed in many agroecological farming systems has been little studied by the scientific community, especially terms work organization. Narrative interview research concerning 34 farmers six French farm machinery cooperatives, on basis styles framework, allows us to highlight a specific style conducive transition. Farmers members these cooperatives have developed ...

Abstract This paper explores farmer’s experiences of crime and their attitudes towards prevention in one rural hinterland. Farmer’s about safety present a dichotomy: fear victimisation was relatively high, yet few participants reported having been victimised, there perception that agricultural high Ireland but low locality. Feelings insecurity were partly influenced by the closure Garda station...

The agricultural machinery service (AMS) market enables China to rapidly realize mechanization on the basis of smallholder farmers. Academics generally believe that has created a model matches small-scale farmers with large-scale machinery. However, in recent years, transformation AMS from prosperity decline been under-analyzed. This paper used farm and supplier survey data North Plain estimate...

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Recent research on the impact of institutions su¤ers from historical, theoretical, and methodological problems. The historical issue is whether the initially poorer countries became wealthier, as Acemoglou, Johnson, and Robinson (2002) would have us believe. The theoretical question is whether the institutions that should matter are those that protect property rights or those that coordindate i...