Labour

CLEM.Resources.Labour

The on-farm (household members) and hired labour available to perform activities.

The Labour resource represents the people available to perform activities on the farm. They are also the household or family that can be fed for human nutrition and food security modelling. This is a special asset which has an availability reset at the start of each time step and can constrain the ability to perform activities much the same way limited funds can restrict what can be performed. Labour can come from the family of a family-owned farm or be purchased as hired labour.

This resource component holds all the labour available to the farm and determines the monthly availability

The following parameters are associated with this resource

This switch will age individuals during the simulation. This is useful if you need to understand the consequences of the labour pool ageing during a simulation.

Please note, the model does not account for mortality or births in the labour pool.

The following components are required to set up this resource

You will need to provide a list (any number located directly below this component) of Labour type components below this component to identify all the people in the simulation, both family members and hired labour pools. Each Labour Type can represent an individual (e.g. farmer Joe) when Number of individuals is 1, or a group of individuals of the same age and gender (e.g. 10, 21 year old males as seasonal labour). You can therefore provide as much detail in defining the people present as required.

You may wish to assign special labour available to particular activities from one person in the household with special skills. If this is the case this person should have their own labour type component and Name so they can be identified from others of the same gender and age if present.

The Labour availability list is used to define the days available each month for all Labour Types.

For details on using this component see Labour availability list

The following components will add additional functionality to the Labour component

The Labour pricing list is used to define the daily pay rates for all Labour Types.

For details on using this component see Labour pricing

Note: This is a required component whenever pay rates are required in a simulation.

A measure of a standardised person is required for many calculations and activities relating to people. The Adult Equivalent (AE) metric is used in CLEM. While there are a range of characteristics of the person that can be used to calculate the adult equivalent (e.g. age, weight, energy requirements), age is the only characteristic tracked in the model.

The Adult equivalent relationship is provided by a Relationship component with a component name containing "AE". This component requires a list of x and y values defining the relationship to be used with x values representing age (in months) and y value representing the adult equivalent measure. The number of x,y pairs provided will determine the detail of the relationship used.

Omitting this component will assume that all individuals are 1 (one) adult equivalent, if the relationship is required.

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