Development practitioners in the West have proclaimed that an increasing “feminization of agriculture” is occurring in the developing world. In this paper, I use household survey data collected in rural China to empirically test whether or not women have been doing an increasing amount of farmwork. I find exactly the opposite: if anything, the proportion of farmwork being done by women is decli...

OBJECTIVE To assess socio-economic indicators, nutritional status and living conditions of farm workers and their families, with the purpose to develop research and intervention programmes aimed at enhancing nutritional status and quality of life. DESIGN AND SETTING Three farm schools in two districts of the North-West Province and farming communities were selected. Anthropometrical measureme...

BACKGROUND HIV/AIDS has led to increased mortality and morbidity, negatively impacting adult labour especially in HIV/AIDS burdened Sub-Saharan Africa. There has been some exploration of the effects of HIV/AIDS on paid child labour, but little empirical work on children's non-paid child work. This paper provides quantitative evidence of how child and household-level factors affect children's in...

since time immemorial, iranian women have played a pivotal role in agriculture, the largest industry contributing to rural livelihoods. hence, the present study was conducted in tafresh area of iran to examine factors influencing participation of rural women in mixed farming activities in 1999.this was a descriptive- correlation research project in which a total number of 300 rural women were s...

Undertaking non-agrarian income-generating activities to reduce overreliance on agriculture, production failures, and income fluctuations is a household-amenable, self-insurance mechanism, which provides employment opportunities capital investment. This article examines the determinants of participation in non-farm effect household income. Heckman two-step procedure was used analyze three-wave ...

This study examines the impacts of partnerships for sustainability certifications in coffee value chains on farm income Lampung Province, Sumatra-Indonesia. We conducted farm-household surveys, interviewing 171 samples West and Tanggamus Districts, consisting 98 farmers joining partnership 73 not joining. A probit model is used to determine decisions join partnership; ordinary least square (OLS...