Does population pressure induce farm intensification? Empirical evidence from Tigrai Region, Ethiopia (Record no. 61237)
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| control field | 61237 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | MX-TxCIM |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20200127182251.0 |
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| 022 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SERIAL NUMBER | |
| International Standard Serial Number | 1574-0862 (Online) |
| 024 8# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER | |
| Standard number or code | https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12482 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | MX-TxCIM |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 11124 |
| Personal name | Hadush, M. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Does population pressure induce farm intensification? Empirical evidence from Tigrai Region, Ethiopia |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Amsterdam (Netherlands) : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | IAAE : |
| -- | Wiley, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2019. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Peer review |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | The scarcity of land for crop and livestock production is critical in countries with growing populations. The idea that increasing population density leads to natural resource depletion and economic failure, as predicted by Malthus, or rather to farm intensification, as hypothesized by Boserup, motivates this research. This article examines how high population pressure in northern Ethiopia influences smallholders’ farm intensification by applying recursive estimation with a control function approach using data from 518 randomly selected farmers. Although our empirical results are more in favor of the Boserupian hypothesis, the findings also reveal that both Malthusian and Boserupian forces coexist. Consistent with Malthus theory, high population pressure is found to be associated with small farm size and herd size. Population pressure affected both technology use (breed cow, stall feeding, and modern cattle feed) and output supply (milk yield, milk income, and straw output). As predicted by Boserup's theory, the use of modern input and output supply initially increases with increasing population pressure but declines again when population densities pass a critical threshold (800 persons/km2), supporting Malthus’ hypothesis. The estimation results also revealed that both milk and straw supply responded positively to prices. Free grazing and stall feeding are found to be complementary activities. Likewise, crop farm income and off‐farm job have a nonlinear relation with population pressure, implying that both initially increase and then decrease with rising population pressure. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | Text in English |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Source of heading or term | AGROVOC |
| 9 (RLIN) | 4631 |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Population pressure |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Source of heading or term | AGROVOC |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1957 |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Intensification |
| 651 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Source of heading or term | AGROVOC |
| 9 (RLIN) | 2025 |
| Geographic name | Ethiopia |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 5048 |
| Personal name | Holden, S.T. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 11125 |
| Personal name | Tilahun, M. |
| 773 0# - HOST ITEM ENTRY | |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Amsterdam (Netherlands) : IAAE : Wiley, 2019. |
| Related parts | v. 50, no. 3, p. 259-277 |
| Title | Agricultural Economics |
| International Standard Serial Number | 1574-0862 |
| Record control number | u444456 |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Article |
| Suppress in OPAC | No |
| Date last seen | Total Checkouts | Price effective from | Koha item type | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Withdrawn status | Home library | Current library | Date acquired |
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| 01/23/2020 | 01/23/2020 | Article | Not Lost | Dewey Decimal Classification | Reprints Collection | CIMMYT Knowledge Center: John Woolston Library | CIMMYT Knowledge Center: John Woolston Library | 01/23/2020 |