Farm Size and Productivity: The Role of Family Labor

Ayaz, Muhammad; Mughal, Mazhar

doi:10.1086/721837

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“…About one third of the participants were willing to practice family planning if they had the opportunity. Like in many developing countries, many urban dwellers preferred having smaller families than rural dwellers, who would want to have larger families so as to have more hands on the farm (Ayaz & Mughal, 2022;Horlu et al, 2023;Olayemi, 2012).…”

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Knowledge, Attitude and Use of Contraceptive Among Secondary School Students in the Gambia

Jatta,

Badjie,

Sreed

2024

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Background: Family planning assists individuals and couples in anticipating and achieving their desired number of children as well as the spacing and timing of their births. The public healthcare system in many nations neglects adolescents and young people. Lack of proper awareness and utilization of family planning services by secondary school students poses a significant public health challenge, particularly as the government strives to reduce mother and child morbidity and mortality in the Gambia. This paper aimed at assessing the knowledge, attitude, and use of contraceptives among secondary school students in The Gambia. METHODOLOGY: An exploratory cross-sectional study was conducted among secondary school students in The Gambia. Semi-structured questionnaire was administered to students through face-to-face interviews. Data was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 22.0. Descriptive statistics were used to summarize the data. RESULTS: The findings showed a low level of good knowledge of family planning with only 17.5% of the participants having good knowledge. The most common source of information was radio and television. The attitude of students towards family planning was relatively positive with 50.4% had positive attitude. About one in ten (9.8%) were practicing family planning. Seventy-nine (20.8%) were sexually active and out of these 41.3% were engaged in risky sexual behaviors. CONCLUSION: There was a low level of good knowledge and uptake of family planning commodities in both regions and the proportion of urban participants with positive attitudes was higher than the rural.

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Knowledge, Attitude and Use of Contraceptive Among Secondary School Students in the Gambia

Jatta,

Badjie,

Sreed

2024

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“…Family planning brings enormous bene ts to females, communities, and countries at large, and it helps women in achieving educational goals, and engage in economic activities (Starbird et al, 2016). Among the bene ts of family planning (FP) is the reduction of unintended pregnancies (Ayaz & Mughal, 2022;WHO, 2024). These bene ts extend to the reduction of the spread of HIV to newborns; reduced maternal mortality and morbidity as well as reduced neonatal, infant, and child mortality (Grant, 2016;WHO, 2024).…”

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Prevalence and Knowledge of modern contraceptives among married women in Kombo North District of The Gambia

Jatta,

Badjie,

Sreed

et al. 2024

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Background The family planning services that are a part of reproductive health care give couples the chance to have the number of children they want with the proper spacing between each birth. Family planning is important for community socioeconomic advancement, public health, and resource conservation. It is the most economically impactful health and development intervention and has significant positive effects on women, communities, and nations as a whole. The study aimed at assessing married women's knowledge and prevalence of using contemporary contraceptives in the Kombo North District of The Gambia. Methods: The study design was a descriptive hospital-based cross-section study design using the Maternal and Child Health clinics in the Gambia's Kombo North District. A total of two hundred and thirty-two randomly selected married women participants were recruited for the study. A structured questionnaire was used to gather data from the participants. Univariate and bivariate analyses were used to analyze the data with the results presented using tables. IBM SPSS version 20.0 is used for data entry and analysis. Results: Ninety-three percent (93.1%) of married women used injectables with 6.9% used pills. The reasons for utilizing modern contraceptives were child spacing, prevention of unplanned pregnancy (78.9%), affordability and availability (18.4%), and suitability and reliability (4.9%). Two-thirds (65.1%) of the participants reported ever used family planning. However, 66% of the participants claimed to lack knowledge of family planning methods. Married women were able to identify only three family planning methods - Pills (58.2%), Injectable (78.9%), and Implants (9.5%). Conclusion: Married women showed some amount of understanding about using modern contraceptives even though the majority could only identify just three methods. The availability and acceptance of injectables and pills by married women and society may be a contributing factor to their use. Therefore, there is a need for more awareness creation to enable women to opt for other methods other than pills and injections.

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“…3 Similarly, although land area measurement using global positioning systems (GPS) brings significant improvements over self-reported data (Carletto et al, 2015(Carletto et al, , 2017Dillon et al, 2019;Kilic et al, 2017), the consumer grade GPS devices used in many of these studies are likely to suffer from some inaccuracies when applied to smaller plots (Dillon et al, 2019;Keita & Carfagna, 2009). Second, a number of recent studies have argued that the relationship between land area and agricultural productivity depends on the choice of agricultural productivity indicator used (Arag on et al, 2022;Ayaz & Mughal, 2023;Garz on Delvaux et al, 2020;Helfand & Taylor, 2021). 4 Third, a recent literature highlights the role of the edge effect, whereby productivity is higher along the plot perimeter, in explaining why small farms (and plots) appear more productive (Bevis & Barrett, 2020).…”

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Revisiting the size–productivity relationship with imperfect measures of production and plot size

Ayalew

Chamberlin

Newman

et al. 2023

American J Agri Economics

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Monitoring smallholder agricultural productivity growth, one of the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals, rests on accurate measures of crop production and land area. Existing methods and protocols for measuring smallholder production and plot size are prone to various sources and forms of mismeasurement. Inaccuracies in production and land area measurement are likely to distort descriptive and predictive inferences. We examine the sensitivity of empirical assessments of the relationship between agricultural productivity and land area to alternative measurement protocols. We implement six production and six land area measurement protocols, and show that most of these protocols differ systematically in their accuracy. We find that an apparent inverse size–productivity relationship in our data is fully explained by measurement error in both production and plot size. Moreover, we show that some of the previously used “gold standard” measures are themselves prone to nonclassical measurement error, and hence can generate spurious inverse size–productivity findings. Our results also show that slight improvements in the precision of objective measures significantly reduce the inferential bias associated with the size–productivity relationship.

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Farm Size and Productivity: The Role of Family Labor

Cited by 7 publications

References 60 publications

Knowledge, Attitude and Use of Contraceptive Among Secondary School Students in the Gambia

Knowledge, Attitude and Use of Contraceptive Among Secondary School Students in the Gambia

Prevalence and Knowledge of modern contraceptives among married women in Kombo North District of The Gambia

Revisiting the size–productivity relationship with imperfect measures of production and plot size

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