Age may affect off-farm labor participation decisions and the hours of work supplied of the farm man and woman differently, i.e., the influence of age may not be consistent across gender.
In addition to its effect on natural landscape and biodiversity, abandoning highland grazing may affect dairy-farm profitability and have environmental consequences in the lowland.
What we learn there can affect farming across the country.
For this reason and assuming that firm performance is directly and indirectly influenced by the structural variables of firms themselves and by their relations within the environment in which they are embedded (see, among others, Coda 1995), the research is aimed at exploring how these variables (structure and relations) may affect the results of farms engaged in social farming.
Appropriate, reliable and adequate information coming from the marketers/buyers of the products, or from suppliers to farming enterprises, may affect the decision positively, as such information helps farmers to balance their expenses and profits, and make the most efficient quality-related decision.
Growing concerns in the major importing countries on the socio-environmental sustainability of oil palm farming may affect the import demand of palm oil and hence the economy of the exporting countries.
Acquiring (inheritance or purchase) of the farm through the farm woman's (spouse's/partner's) family may affect participation in a non-farm job.
However, changes to the system may affect the flexibility of farms and thus their ability to cope with variability.
Due to the variation in farm demand along the season and the day, a large spatial and temporal variability of flow regimes occurs in these systems, which may affect the performance of the farm systems and the yields of the irrigated crops.
The occupational activities, such as farming and mining, may affect people's contact with rodents[ 16].
