Climate variability can induce uncertainty in yields, and threaten long term economic viability of rainfed agricultural enterprises in the absence of effective adaptation strategies. Enterprise mix diversification has been found to be an effective adaptation strategy for mitigating multiple sources of farm business risk in some contexts. The extent to which enterprise mix diversification can mi...

purpose: this study investigats the role of tourism second homes in rural economy diversification and improvement of creating jobs and income opportunities of permanent residents in the hesar-e- valiasr dehestan. methodology: this research is applied and the method is analytical– descriptive. data collected by the use of field studies, from a total number of 358 permanent households in sample s...

INTRODUCTION: Governments throughout the developing world have a keen interest in diversifying their rural economies. One basis for this desire concern that reliance on a few crops for cash income can lead to instability in income that threatens rural livelihoods – has undoubtedly been accentuated by the worldwide price crises of 2007/08 and 2010/11. It is also true that, for many households th...

This paper addresses the development of farm businesses in Sweden, 2000–2007, with regard to their specialization in single farm enterprises, diversified agricultural production and diversification with new income-generating ventures. Furthermore, regression analysis is used to study the impact of farm characteristics on the observed specialization and diversification. The study is based a pane...

The paper examines the structure and nature of cropping pattern, crop diversification, crop concentration, productivity level and inter-districts disparity in the state of Odisha based on the secondary data collected for the period 1980 – 2005 from different published sources. The study has used Herfindahl index, location quotient, Gini coefficient and panel data regression for analysis. The st...

The objective of this study is to see the impacts of economic reforms and trade liberalisation policies on agricultural export performance of Pakistan. The major purpose is to examine the effects of both domestic supply-side factors and world demand on agricultural export performance. Four indicators of economic reforms and trade liberalisation policies are considered namely competitiveness, di...

The Agricultural Basic Act, enacted in Japan in 1961, set a policy agenda of altering the course of the Japanese farm sector over the following several decades (National Chamber of Agriculture, 1961). One of the most important concepts articulated in the Act is the transformation of the agricultural product mix : Article 2 stipulates that the government should implement appropriate measures to ...

The sustainability of society hinges on the future of agriculture. Though alternatives to unsustainable, high-input industrial agriculture are available, agricultural systems have been slow to transition to them. Much of the resistance to adopting alternative techniques stems from the perceived costs of alternative agriculture, mainly in terms of yields. The general assumption is that agricultu...

Two previous CTAHR Economic Issues publications, EI-3 (Agriculture’s Contribution to Hawaii’s Economy—An Update) and EI-4 (The Linkages of Agri­ culture to Hawaii’s Economy) have examined agricul­ tural industries’ economic contribution and their link­ ages to the rest of Hawaii’s economy (see Notes, p. 11). The present publication examines the growth and sta­ bility of agricultural production ...