Rural Nonfarm Income and Its Impact on Agriculture: Evidence from Albania

Using data from the 2005 Albania Living Standards Measurement Study (ALSMS05) survey, this article analyzes the overall impact of household nonfarm income-generating activities (RIGA) on agricultural expenditures as well as technical efficiency of rural farm households. We also differentiate the imp...

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Main Authors:	Kilic, Talip, Carletto, Calogero, Miluka, Juna, Savastano, Sara
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis D120 Economic Development: Agriculture Natural Resources Energy Environment Other Primary Products O130 Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Factor and Product Markets Industry Studies Population P230 Collectives Communes Agriculture P320 Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets Q120 Agricultural Markets and Marketing Cooperatives Agribusiness Q130
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4632

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spelling	okr-10986-46322021-04-23T14:02:18Z Rural Nonfarm Income and Its Impact on Agriculture: Evidence from Albania Kilic, Talip Carletto, Calogero Miluka, Juna Savastano, Sara Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis D120 Economic Development: Agriculture Natural Resources Energy Environment Other Primary Products O130 Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Factor and Product Markets Industry Studies Population P230 Collectives Communes Agriculture P320 Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets Q120 Agricultural Markets and Marketing Cooperatives Agribusiness Q130 Using data from the 2005 Albania Living Standards Measurement Study (ALSMS05) survey, this article analyzes the overall impact of household nonfarm income-generating activities (RIGA) on agricultural expenditures as well as technical efficiency of rural farm households. We also differentiate the impact for subsistence and commercial farmers, who are in the top 25% of the distribution of value of annual agricultural sales. Our results show that on the whole, Albanian rural households utilize their nonfarm earnings not to invest in time-saving, efficiency-increasing technologies, but to move out of crop production. We derive similar findings when we try to estimate the same relation separately for commercial and subsistence farmers. However, for commercial farmers, we find a positive impact of household nonfarm earnings on livestock expenditures. 2012-03-30T07:28:56Z 2012-03-30T07:28:56Z 2009 Journal Article Agricultural Economics 01695150 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4632 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article Albania
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topic	Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis D120 Economic Development: Agriculture Natural Resources Energy Environment Other Primary Products O130 Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Factor and Product Markets Industry Studies Population P230 Collectives Communes Agriculture P320 Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets Q120 Agricultural Markets and Marketing Cooperatives Agribusiness Q130
spellingShingle	Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis D120 Economic Development: Agriculture Natural Resources Energy Environment Other Primary Products O130 Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Factor and Product Markets Industry Studies Population P230 Collectives Communes Agriculture P320 Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets Q120 Agricultural Markets and Marketing Cooperatives Agribusiness Q130 Kilic, Talip Carletto, Calogero Miluka, Juna Savastano, Sara Rural Nonfarm Income and Its Impact on Agriculture: Evidence from Albania
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description	Using data from the 2005 Albania Living Standards Measurement Study (ALSMS05) survey, this article analyzes the overall impact of household nonfarm income-generating activities (RIGA) on agricultural expenditures as well as technical efficiency of rural farm households. We also differentiate the impact for subsistence and commercial farmers, who are in the top 25% of the distribution of value of annual agricultural sales. Our results show that on the whole, Albanian rural households utilize their nonfarm earnings not to invest in time-saving, efficiency-increasing technologies, but to move out of crop production. We derive similar findings when we try to estimate the same relation separately for commercial and subsistence farmers. However, for commercial farmers, we find a positive impact of household nonfarm earnings on livestock expenditures.
format	Journal Article
author	Kilic, Talip Carletto, Calogero Miluka, Juna Savastano, Sara
author_facet	Kilic, Talip Carletto, Calogero Miluka, Juna Savastano, Sara
author_sort	Kilic, Talip
title	Rural Nonfarm Income and Its Impact on Agriculture: Evidence from Albania
title_short	Rural Nonfarm Income and Its Impact on Agriculture: Evidence from Albania
title_full	Rural Nonfarm Income and Its Impact on Agriculture: Evidence from Albania
title_fullStr	Rural Nonfarm Income and Its Impact on Agriculture: Evidence from Albania
title_full_unstemmed	Rural Nonfarm Income and Its Impact on Agriculture: Evidence from Albania
title_sort	rural nonfarm income and its impact on agriculture: evidence from albania
publishDate	2012
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4632
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Rural Nonfarm Income and Its Impact on Agriculture: Evidence from Albania

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