To address these gaps, we used data previously collected by Bonell et al.1 from 92 pregnant farmers in West Kiang, The Gambia in West Africa. The first aim was to identify the independent effects of environmental parameters on physiological parameters of agricultural workers during pregnancy. We ...
but have been minimally studied. The level of net returns above the next best alternative land-use (i.e., opportunity costs), contract length, having a biorefinery harvest option, availability of insurance, and having monetary incentives/cost share are important contract attributes [...
Under the dimension of perceived quality, the most influential factor in farmers’ satisfaction is the distribution of medical and social insurance benefits and proceeds after the market entry. Therefore, the formulation of a sound compensation system and a fair standard for the distribution of ...
Fourth, labor migration can alleviate the negative impact of risk shocks such as nature and disease on agricultural production, and it can have certain agricultural insurance functions that enhance the ability of farmers to resist risk shocks and promote the adoption of measures to protect the ...
Fertility, social status, and social trust are main social choice behaviors of Chinese farmers. This paper adopts the childbearing–value logic to establish a theoretical model of farmers’ childbearing–social status–social trust choices to examine the