Author: Fleur S. WoutersePublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Migration and Technical Efficiency in Cereal Production: Evidence from Burkina Faso
Author: Fleur S. WoutersePublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Accelerating Africa's Food Production in Response to Rising Prices: Impacts and Requisite Actions
Author: Xinshen Diao, Shenggen Fan, Derek Headey, Michael Johnson, Alejandro Nin Pratt, and Bingxin YuPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
The Impact of International Migration and Remittances on Agricultural Production Patterns, Labor Relationships and Entrepreneurship
Author: Cristian VascoPublisher: kassel university press GmbH
ISBN: 3862190870
Category : Ecuador
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Development Centre Studies Tackling the Policy Challenges of Migration Regulation, Integration, Development
Author: OECDPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264126392
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
This book contributes to the current debate on migration policy, focusing on three main elements in the standard migration policy dialogue: the regulation of flows, the integration of immigrants and the impact of labour mobility on development.
Migration, local off-farm employment, and agricultural production efficiency
Author: Yang, JinPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
This paper studies the effect of local off-farm employment and migration on rural households technical efficiency of crop production using a five-year panel dataset from more than 2,000 households in five Chinese provinces. While there is not much debate about the positive contribution of migration and local off-farm employment to Chinas economy, there is an increasing concern about the potential negative effects of moving labor away from agriculture on Chinas future food security. This is a critical issue as maintaining self-sufficiency in grain production will be critical for China to feed its huge population in the future. Several papers have studied the impact of migration on production and yield with mixed results. But the impact of migration on technical efficiency is rarely studied. Methodologically, we incorporate the correlated random-effects approach into the standard stochastic production frontier model to control for unobservable that are correlated with migration and off-farm employment decisions and technical efficiency. The most consistent result that emerged from our econometric analysis is that neither migration nor local off-farm employment has a negative effect on the technical efficiency of grain production, which does not support the widespread notion that vast-scale labor migration could negatively affect Chinas future food security.
Market Orientation, Rural Out-migration, Crop Production and Household Food Security
Author: Ochieng, JustusPublisher: kassel university press GmbH
ISBN: 3862198006
Category : Agricultural industries
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
The research presented in this volume analyses the impact of market orientation on agricultural production and household food security; identifies determinants of farmer groups marketing; and investigates the effect of rural out-migration on agricultural intensification considering the case of banana and legume based systems in Central Africa. Based on a comprehensive field survey, the results show that market orientation enhances input use, yields, and food security by increasing rural households’ dietary diversity. They also demonstrate that the quality of marketing performance increases with the age of the farmer groups, the strengths of their internal structures and the extent of member participation in product bulking. Under the given conditions, policies that promote market orientation particularly by improving road infrastructure, provision of market information, and extension services would address production, marketing and food insecurity challenges while smart input subsidy programs targeting poor households can create additional employment and discourage massive rural out-migration. Besides, a transition of farmer groups into formal business entities could considerably support their marketing performance and hence their production efficacy.
Trade Protection and Tax Evasion: Evidence from Kenya, Mauritius, and Nigeria
Author: Antoine Bouet and Devesh RoyPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The future of Global Sugar Markets: Policies, Reforms and impact Proceedings of a Public Conference
Author: David Orden, Jean-Christophe Bureau, Alexandre Gohin, Loïc Guindé, Guy Millet, Antônio Salazar P. Brandão, Stephen Haley, Owen Wagner, David Orden, Ron Sandrey and Nick VinkPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Credit Constraints, Organizational Choice, and Returns to Capital: Evidence from a Rural Industrial Cluster in China
Author: Jianqing Ruan and Xiaobo ZhangPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Perspectives on Global Development 2017 International Migration in a Shifting World
Author: OECDPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264265686
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Perspectives on Global Development 2017 presents an overview of the shifting of economic activity to developing countries and examines whether this shift has led to an increase in international migration towards developing countries.