Explaining African economic performance

P Collier, JW Gunning - Journal of economic literature, 1999 - aeaweb.org
Africa has had slow growth and a massive exodus of capital. In many respects it has been
the most capital-hostile region. We review and interpret the aggregate-level and …

Land rental market, off-farm employment and agricultural production in Southeast China: A plot-level case study

S Feng, N Heerink, R Ruben, F Qu - China Economic Review, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper performs a plot-level analysis of the impact of land rental market participation and
off-farm employment on land investment, input use, and rice yields for 215 plots cultivated by …

Land rental, off-farm employment and technical efficiency of farm households in Jiangxi Province, China

S Feng - NJAS-Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences, 2008 - Elsevier
Land rental market development and off-farm employment have important implications for
agricultural production. This study examined the effects of land rental market participation …

Heterogeneous effects of rural–urban migration and migrant earnings on land efficiency: Empirical evidence from China

S Zhao, Y Jiang - Land Use Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
On the basis of the conceptual framework of the new economics of labour migration (NELM),
this paper demonstrates the effects of rural–urban migration and migrant earnings on land …

Does off-farm employment contribute to agriculture-based environmental pollution? New insights from a village-level analysis in Jiangxi Province, China

X Shi, N Heerink, QU Futian - China Economic Review, 2011 - Elsevier
This study examines the conventional wisdom that off-farm employment contributes to
environmental pollution by increasing the use of agro-chemicals. In order to analyse the role …

[图书][B] Economic analysis and policy implications of farm and off-farm employment: A case study in the Tigray region of Northern Ethiopia

T Woldehanna - 2000 - search.proquest.com
The central item of this research is the impact of off-farm employment and income on farm
households and agricultural production. The interaction between farm and nonfarm …

Land transfer and rural household consumption diversity: promoting or inhibiting?

G Li, X Cui, L Pan, Y Wang - Land, 2023 - mdpi.com
Land resources are important for millions of rural households in China. With the land tenure
system reform and the trend of nonfarm employment, land transfer affects household income …

Assessing the impact of off-farm employment on land efficiency in different patterns: Field evidence from post-reform China

S Zhao, S Pei, Y Jiang, X Wu - Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The three rights separation reform (TRSR) has laid a concrete foundation institutionally to
guide the well-ordered transfer of farmland and promoting the development of urbanization …

An economic study of smallholder dairy farms in Murang'a District, Kenya

G van Schaik, BD Perry, AW Mukhebi, GK Gitau… - Preventive Veterinary …, 1996 - Elsevier
The Murang'a District is situated in central Kenya and is a highland area with a high
potential for dairy production. This study was carried out to evaluate the performance of …

[图书][B] Survival or Accumulation: migration and rural households in Burkina Faso

FS Wouterse - 2006 - search.proquest.com
Migration plays an important role in development and as a strategy for poverty reduction.
Burkina Faso, a country where conditions for agriculture are far from favourable, has a long …