Enterprise diversification is a self‐insuring strategy used by farmers to protect against risk.
This study examines the impact of various farm, operator, and household characteristics on …

Three themes are related to women's economic roles in the agricultural household. First the
unified family as coordinator of production and consumption over a life cycle. Second the …

This study discusses the modernization of smallholder agriculture in China, where most
farms are small, and farms' parcels are fragmented. The study puts forward a framework of …

In this article I develop a political economic understanding of community-supported
agriculture (CSA). I first develop the relevance of three concepts—economic rents, self …

Different forms of income diversification represent important strategies of farmers to either
cope with the changing economic framework conditions or to valorise given territorial …

We examine the effects of rainfall shocks on household work decisions in Brazil. We show
that rural farming households increase labor supply in non‐agricultural sectors during …

This study evaluates the labor response of rural households participating in the Grain for
Green program in China, the largest payments for ecosystem services program in the …

In light of the increasing prominence of offfarm labor as a determinant of farm household
income, concerns have recently been raised about the extent to which time and …

Does access to off‐farm income complement or compete with agricultural production? This
article explores the effect of off‐farm income on agricultural production activities, using data …

The paper applies a semi-parametric propensity score matching approach to evaluate the
effects of agri-environment (AE) programmes on input use and farm output of individual …