Papers by Stein T. Holden
Emerging-economy state and international policy studies, Dec 2, 2022
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Land Use Policy, Jul 1, 2018
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The objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of off-farm employment on village factor mar... more The objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of off-farm employment on village factor market development, and estimate the effects of off-farm employment on input use in farm production, especially inputs related to the change of land production capacity. Four household groups are distinguished and at group level, they show large differences in terms of household size, number of laborers, income levels and income composition, while small differences on land endowments. They also show to some extent the differences in participations of factor markets, output markets and oxen rental markets and credit markets. A Shangzhu Village social accounting matrix (SAM) is built and represents the major transactions among production activities, institutions and the external market environment. Simulations based on SAM multipliers indicate that for most crops, farm production is expanded in particular by the household groups experiencing the largest income gains, and annual crops have the...
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Social Science Research Network, 2011
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RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, Jun 20, 2021
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RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, Mar 10, 2017
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RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, Apr 1, 2013
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RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, Mar 7, 2016
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Palgrave Macmillan eBooks, Sep 20, 2013
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Agricultural and Food Economics
Agricultural technology change is required in developing countries to increase the robustness to ... more Agricultural technology change is required in developing countries to increase the robustness to climate-related variability, feed a growing population, and create opportunities for market-oriented production. This study investigates technological change in the form of adoption of improved wheat, drought-tolerant teff, and cash crops in the semiarid Tigray region in northern Ethiopia. We analyze three rounds of panel data collected from smallholder farms in 2005/2006, 2009/2010, and 2014/2015 with a total sample of 1269 households. Double-hurdle models are used to assess how the likelihood (first hurdle) and intensity of technology adoption (second hurdle) are affected by demographic, weather, and market factors. The results indicate that few smallholders have adopted the new crops; those that have adopted the crops only plant small shares of their land with the new crops, and that there has been only a small increase in adoption over the 10-year period. Furthermore, we found that h...
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This Noragric Report was commissioned by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad)... more This Noragric Report was commissioned by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) under the framework agreement with UMB which is administered by Noragric
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Agricultural Economics Review, 2012
The impact of EU agricultural support policies on farms’ economic performance is an interesting i... more The impact of EU agricultural support policies on farms’ economic performance is an interesting issue for policy makers. The objective of this paper is to investigate technical efficiency and technical efficiency change of specialized German, Dutch and Swedish dairy farms and to compare their relative productivity. Three subsidy-related variables are introduced to reflect the wealth and insurance effect and the coupling effect of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) subsidies. Our results imply that a higher degree of coupling in farm support negatively affects farm efficiency, and the motivation of farmers to work efficiently is lower when they depend to a higher degree on subsidies as a source of income. Our study indicates that the composition of subsidies has a much smaller effect on efficiency than does the composition of total farm income. Relative productivity scores show that German and Swedish dairy farms have potential for improvement in productivity, compared to the productio...
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