Sustainable Food Systems Symposium 2024

Session

Production and Labor

17 Sept 2024, 15:10

1.201 (Paulinerkirche)

175. Adaptation to Humid Heat in Animal Agriculture: The Case of Israeli Dairy Farms

Prof. Ayal Kimhi (Hebrew University)

17/09/2024, 15:10

Oral

Key words: climate change; heat stress; milk yield; adaptation; cooling technology.
Introduction:
Climatic variability and change are posing serious threats to global food security (FAO, 2015). This has motivated a rapidly growing body of research examining how climate influences economic outcomes. This “climate-economy” literature uses panel methods and high-frequency variation in weather...

152. Talking about the Weather - Farm-Level Inefficiency and Climate Extremes

Moritz Hartig (University of Göttingen)

17/09/2024, 15:30

Oral

Keywords: Crop Farm Efficiency, FADN, Climate Extremes, Panel Data
JEL codes: Q12, Q54, D22

Introduction & Objective:

High land and farm productivity is key for a sustainable future under rising food demands, transitions towards circular economies, and limited natural resources, i.e. production factors. Effectively supporting and maintaining...

129. Availability of Household Labour: a key determinant of sustainable agricultural practices use

Katharina Krumbiegel (Joint Research Centre of the European Commission)

17/09/2024, 15:50

Oral

Keywords: household labour, labour requirements, adoption of sustainable practices
Introduction and Objective
In many developing countries, smallholder farmers rely heavily on family labour for agricultural activities. Depending on the cropping systems, tasks can include land preparation, planting, weeding, harvesting, and post-harvest processing. Therefore, the availability of household...

35. Farm size and the quality and quantity of jobs—Insights from Nigeria

Olayinka Aremu (ETH Zürich)

17/09/2024, 16:10

Oral

Keywords: Farm workers, Rural employment, Decent work, Employment quality and quantity, Sub-Saharan Africa, Horticulture.

Introduction

The role of farm size in promoting poverty reduction and economic growth remains a contentious debate in agricultural and development economics as well as in the general public (Dercon & Gollin, 2014; Staatz & Dembele, 2007; Wiggins et al., 2010). So...