Agricultural Labor: Demand for Labor

Huffman, Wallace E.

doi:10.1016/b978-0-444-52512-3.00100-5

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“…Hence, direct demands on farm equipment operators were reduced with new digitized and automated farm equipment, including tractors and combines that are guided through the field with a GPS mapping system. Digital technical change has been a major force bringing rapid changes in the nature of the work expected of farm labor (Huffman ) and nonfarm labor.…”

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Human Capital and Adoption of Innovations: Policy Implications

Huffman¹

2020

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New technologies are made possible by public and private R&D. Investments in education increase skills for decision making—denoted as allocative efficiency. In an environment with dynamic technology, farmers with more education are better able to make technology adoption decisions in a dynamic economic and technical environment. Societies have developed institutions and policies for sharing the costs of education and obtaining the benefits.

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“…Little formal education but significant on‐the‐job learning raises the productivity of fresh fruit and vegetable harvesters in the US and many other developed countries (Huffman ). Other forms of human capital include (good) health status and human migration.…”

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2020

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“…Changes in agro-economic policies and the influence of globalization in developing regions, a low demand for labour thanks to technological advances, the movement of people from rural to urban areas and other factors have contributed significantly top unemployment (Brown et al 1994;de Melo and Robinson 1980;Dupraz and Latruffe 2015;Huffman 2014;Khadka 1989). Further, a structural transformation of higher agricultural productivity coupled with a dynamic non-agricultural economy can be a reliable answer for achieving a sustainable pathway to overcome poverty.…”

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Food Sustainability Challenges in the Developing World

Bhat

2017

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“…Besides, unemployment has also increased in a majority of developing countries. Changes in agro-economic policies and the influence of globalization in developing regions, a low demand for labour thanks to technological advances, the movement of people from rural to urban areas and other factors have contributed significantly top unemployment (Brown et al 1994;de Melo and Robinson 1980;Dupraz and Latruffe 2015;Huffman 2014;Khadka 1989). Further, a structural transformation of higher agricultural productivity coupled with a dynamic non-agricultural economy can be a reliable answer for achieving a sustainable pathway to overcome poverty.…”

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Sustainability Challenges, Human Diet and Environmental Concerns

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Weinstein

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In a global context, 'sustainability' has been defined as 'the ability to accomplish the needs of our present generation by ensuring that the desires of the future generation remain uncompromised'. According to Asheim (1994), sustainability is expressed as a requirement of the present generation to manage its resources in such a way that the current average quality of life can potentially be enjoyed by all future generations. Sustainability is from the Latin (sustinere) and means to 'hold up' , 'support' or 'maintain. ' However, according to Phillis and Andriantiatsaholiniaina (2001), sustainability is very difficult to define or to be measured as it is an ambiguous and complex concept about which there is no consensus as to its definition or on how it is to be measured. And so Phillis and Andriantiatsaholiniaina developed the Sustainability Assessment by Fuzzy Evaluation model, which provided a reliable mechanism to measure sustainability development that considers both ecological and human inputs. Before we look at sustainability issues in any depth and the various challenges the world is facing now, a few basic questions need to be answered. For example: Why sustainability? Does sustainability matter? If it does matter, then to whom? Why do we

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Agricultural Labor: Demand for Labor

Cited by 6 publications

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Human Capital and Adoption of Innovations: Policy Implications

Human Capital and Adoption of Innovations: Policy Implications

Food Sustainability Challenges in the Developing World

Sustainability Challenges, Human Diet and Environmental Concerns

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