TY - BOOK ID - 133570688 TI - The Vanishing Farms ? : The Impact of International Migration On Albanian Family Farming AU - Miluka, Juna AU - Carletto, Gero AU - Davis, Benjamin AU - Zezza, Alberto PY - 2007 PB - Washington, D.C., The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Agricultural Knowledge and Information Systems KW - Agricultural production KW - Agriculture KW - Demographic changes KW - Development policies KW - Economic Theory and Research KW - Health, Nutrition and Population KW - Impact of migration KW - International Migration KW - Labor Policies KW - Macroeconomics and Economic Growth KW - Policy ReseaRch KW - Policy ReseaRch WoRking PaPeR KW - Population Policies KW - Resource allocation KW - Rural areas KW - Rural Development KW - Rural development KW - Rural Development Knowledge and Information Systems KW - Social Protections and Labor UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:133570688 AB - This paper investigates the impact of international migration on technical efficiency, resource allocation and income from agricultural production of family farming in Albania. The results suggest that migration is used by rural households as a pathway out of agriculture: migration is negatively associated with the allocation of both labor and non-labor inputs in agriculture, while no significant differences can be detected in terms of farm technical efficiency or agricultural income. Whether the rapid demographic changes in rural areas triggered by massive migration, possibly combined with propitious land and rural development policies, will ultimately produce the conditions for more viable, high-return agriculture attracting larger investments remains to be seen. ER -