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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"agricultural households"”.
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The DIPP as a resource for pastoral caregivers ministering to intergenerational agricultural households. A literature study
… The research investigates intergenerational agricultural households (IAHs), a familial system prevalent in the rural settlement of Eendekuil. These families are integral to this settlement, as they provide most of the work for those staying there and ensure the town's sustainability. As with …
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Consumption Smoothing and Labor Supply Allocation Decisions: Evidence from Tanzania
<p>This paper tests the hypothesis that agricultural households engage in intermittent wage labor as a way to smooth consumption in the face of idiosyncratic shocks to agricultural income. Using data on agricultural households from the Tanzanian LSMS-ISA National Panel Survey and global commodity …
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Why do the poor stay poor? Three essays on asset dynamics and poverty traps
… what is the role of income diversification for agricultural households for asset accumulation, and does it depend on their wealth? The analysis focuses (a) on the case of Nigeria and a devastating flood, (b) on refugees and host communities in Uganda and (c) on agricultural households in …
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Labor productivity, remittance use, and the impact of the poverty alleviation fund program in Nepal
… I estimate the labor productivity of agricultural household because most of the agricultural households in developing countries work in their own farms, it is not possible to observe wages. The first chapter estimates the shadow wage (marginal productivity of labor) of the agricultural …
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Rural credit and agricultural productivity; does access to credit matter? evidence from smallholder maize farmers in Zambia
… evidence that access to credit is critical for agricultural production, it is still unclear whether access to credit improves agricultural productivity. Productivity improvement are key to reducing wastages and sustainably increasing household incomes, and ultimately, their economic welfare. …
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A Test of the Household Separation Hypothesis in Rwanda
… decides crop selection? In developing countries, agricultural households strive to optimize a risk mitigating utility function rather than a traditional agricultural production function. These households are termed “non-separated” as their farming efforts are directed towards family food security …
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Agricultural productivity and climate shocks in developing countries
… three chapters studying factors limiting agricultural productivity in developing countries. Climate change is a significant threat for the developing world countries, and agricultural households experience changes in their productive context, forcing them to adapt to the new environment. …
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Gender, migration and rural livelihoods in Ghana: a case of the Ho district
… and/or women migrate, there are consequences for households. For those migrating, this can result in either empowerment or increased vulnerability. And for the agricultural households in the sending areas, the departure of men and/or women affects their livelihood and division of labour. Our …
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I won't let you behind". The impact of migration on sending households"
… using data from the “Peruvian National Survey of Households”. Remittances positively impact on healthcare consumption shares and this propensity is independent of the occurrence of a health shock, confirming the importance of migrant transfers for human capital accumulation. In the second part, I …
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Three essays on the Covid-19 crisis on household food security. Evidence from Ethiopia, Uganda, and Mozambique
… the heterogeneous impact over different types of households and different segments of the food value chain. To answer the proposed research questions, the study uses the most appropriate econometric techniques, which include a longitudinal model with household fixed effects, a structural equation …
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Agricultural Sector Policy Reforms: Implications for Poverty and the Environment in Malawi
… in 1964, Malawi has implemented a number of agricultural reforms particularly in the tobacco and maize sectors. These reforms have been designed with four key objectives as follows: (a) to improve smallholder prices particularly in the tobacco sector; (b) to increase income for the poor …
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Household allocation of labor time in two types of smallholder farming systems in rural Kenya
… and farming systems on time allocated to work by agricultural households in rural Kenya. A total of 289 participants were selected from Njoro and Kikuyu divisions. Spot observations, personal observations, questionnaires, and focus groups methods were used to collect data. Ecological zones …
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Earth to Earth : reconciling earthen dwellings with eroding loess landform : the case of Loess Plateau in China
… dwellings are mostly populated by low-income agricultural households. They obtain soil resources from exposed loess sections and build dwellings on nearby flat land. This approach increases erosion to both the landforms and the dwellings, and worsens the living quality of the local residents. …
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Effets indirects et distributifs de la participation aux marchés agricoles dans les pays en développement
The analysis of the effects of agricultural marketing on household (participants) income and/or consumption suggests a consensus on a positive causal relationship. However, it would still be incomplete if it is restricted to the participants alone, because in an economic system, the participants …
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Empirical Essays on the Economics of Food Price Shocks: Micro-econometric Evidence from Uganda
… pertaining to the causes, consequences, and households’ responses to food price shocks in Uganda. The first essay investigates the nature of volatilities in agricultural commodity prices in Uganda between 2000 and 2012 by focusing on six key food staples, namely matooke, cassava, maize, sweet …
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Essays on Malawian agriculture: Micro-level welfare impacts of agricultural productivity; profitability of fertilizer use; and targeting of fertilizer subsidy programs
… analyzes the micro-level welfare impacts of agricultural productivity. Welfare is measured by various dimensions of poverty and food insecurity; and agricultural productivity is measured by maize yield and value of crop output per hectare. Depending on the measure of welfare, the impact of …
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Going the Distance: The Impact of Distance to Market on Smallholders Crop and Technology Choices
Smallholder farmers in Honduras and the Trifinio region of Central America contend with poor roads and high transportation costs when making production decisions. Farmers select crop activities based on cost, revenue and profit but are constrained by labor requirements, cash requirements, food …
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Effects of droughts and animal diseases on smallholder farmers’ participation in the South African beef market
… the vulnerable members of society. Most rural households depend on agriculture and are primarily involved in livestock production. There are 1.3 billion people in the world who depend on the livestock sector, which uses 45 percent of the planet’s land surface. As a result, livestock marketing …
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Three Essays on Nepalese Development: Technology Adoption, Agricultural Risk and the Effects of Remittances on Recipient Households
… pertaining to technology adoption decisions, agricultural commodity price volatility and the effects of remittances on recipient households combined with the motivation of migration decisions in low-income countries such as Nepal under the theories of incomplete and imperfect markets. This …
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Empirical essays in development economics: Evidence from Bolivia
… child labor and schooling decisions by the households when families are fully unconstrained in the use of the benefits from these programs. This is investigated in the context of a policy quasi-experiment created by the introduction of a large old-age pension program in Bolivia, the …