Millennium Development Goal #1 is to halve extreme poverty ($1/day per person) and hunger. Progress toward this goal … has been excellent at global level, led by China and India, but woefully insufficient in sub-Saharan Africa. In Africa, a … health, malnutrition and ultra-poverty are mutually reinforcing states that add to the challenge of addressing any one of …

Poverty traps and resource degradation in the rural tropics appear to have multiple and complex, but similar, causes … empirically remains a challenge, however, but one essential to the design of appropriate interventions for reducing poverty and …

in 2009, this study assesses the impact of SRI on household incomes and child schooling. We find that SRI generates … enjoy no household income gains. Despite the increased labor demand for farming, we find no evidence that SRI has a child …

Asset, activity and income diversification lie at the heart of livelihood strategies in rural Africa. This paper … introduces a special issue on the topic "Income Diversification and Livelihoods in Rural Africa: Cause and Consequence of Change …

Asset, activity and income diversification lie at the heart of livelihood strategies in rural Africa. This paper … introduces a special issue on the topic “Income Diversification and Livelihoods in Rural Africa: Cause and Consequence of Change …