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...
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...
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...
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...
