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Labour Input Decisions Of Subsistence Farm Households In Southern Malawi

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The objective of the paper is the presentation of a farm‐household model which allows an analysis of labour input decisions of rural households in an environment with risky agricultural technologies and off‐farm employment opportunities. Labour input decisions are condensed into a stochastic linear programming framework, and applied to a typical rural household in Southern Malawi. Weak adoption of yield‐increasing technologies is explained by different opportunity costs of time of family members and by the risky nature of income generated using traditional or yield‐increasing agricultural technologies. The view that land‐saving innovations will increase agricultural production is revised. Special extension programmes for family members with low off‐farm employment opportunities are proposed to increase the adoption of those technologies. These programmes have the purpose of reducing anticipated subjective income deviations for yield‐increasing innovations.

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  • H. Becker, 1990. "Labour Input Decisions Of Subsistence Farm Households In Southern Malawi," Journal of Agricultural Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 41(2), pages 162-171, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jageco:v:41:y:1990:i:2:p:162-171
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-9552.1990.tb00632.x
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    1. Mariam, Yohannes & Eisemon, Thomas & Coffin, Garth, 1993. "Production Efficiency in Peasant Agriculture: An Application of LISREL Model," MPRA Paper 403, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 12 Aug 1994.
    2. Rola-Rubzen, Maria Fay & Hardaker, J. Brian, 1999. "Intra-Household Modelling Farm-Household Systems," 1999 Conference (43th), January 20-22, 1999, Christchurch, New Zealand 124542, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    3. Barbier, Edward B. & Burgess, Joanne C., 1992. "Agricultural pricing and environmental degradation," Policy Research Working Paper Series 960, The World Bank.
    4. McGregor, M. J. & Rola-Rubzen, M. F. & Murray-Prior, R., 2001. "Micro and macro-level approaches to modelling decision making," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 69(1-2), pages 63-83.

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