Off-farm work is a growing reality in the US agricultural sector as a whole. Another staple program in the US agriculture is the use of crop insurance. This paper assesses hitherto unaddressed issues of fuel consumption and hence pollution generated by farm households associated with off-farm work and crop insurance. We applied a quantile regression method on a unique national farm-level survey...

The security and quality of livelihoods for peasant households is the core issue for rural areas in China. A stable livelihood contributes to the harmonious development of related polices, poverty eradication and sustainable use of resources. In Qinghe County, located in the extremely arid zone of Northwest China, 238 validated surveys were conducted. The analysis focuses on the importance of l...

Income from o®-farm sources is especially important for land-poor households. However, the pattern of participation in o®-farm activities is heterogeneous across space. We explore the determinants of participation in o®-farm employment using data from rural Mexico. In particular, we try to undertand how the neighborhood and the neighbors a®ect the individual decision to participate in o®-farm l...

We study socioeconomic indicators of female labour force participation in off-farm formal employment a subsistence agriculture setting northern Ghana, where new commercial farm provides positive demand shock for low-skilled labour. use set quantitative and qualitative data examining determinants participation, the social effects arising from it, influence on decision-making power their househol...

The three rights separation reform (TRSR) has laid a concrete foundation institutionally to guide the well-ordered transfer of farmland and promoting development urbanization. With new economics labour migration (hereinafter referred as NELM) theory analytic basis, this empirical research investigates potential ramifications off-farm employment on land efficiency with household-based survey dat...