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Land Use Change, Carbon Sequestration and Poverty Alleviation

Lipper, Leslie; Cavatassi, Romina - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2003

Land use change is a key requirement for improving rural incomes and making a significant reduction in poverty levels … land use changes required for poverty alleviation coincide with that required for carbon sequestration, significant … is significant potential for sequestration payments to contribute to poverty alleviation, considerable effort will be …

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Rural Policies, Price Change and Poverty in Tanzania : An Agricultural Household Model-Based Assessment

Tiberti, Luca - 2015

Exogenous shocks to farmers' consumption, production and labour market decisions are rarely considered accurately. For farm households, under labour market imperfections, such decisions are often interlinked. This calls for non-separable agricultural household models. According to this...

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Vulnerability of Mexican Farm Households in a Changing Economy

Frahan, Bruno Henry de; Nkunzimana, Tharcisse; Blander, … - In: Review of Business and Economics LIV (2009) 3, pp. 273-293

In the context of the structural transformation of the Mexican economy, we conduct a comparative analysis of incomes of farm households relative to non-farm households over the last two decades. We use household-based budget surveys from 1984 to 2004 that are collected and harmonized by the...

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Does Organic Farming Jeopardize Food and Nutrition Security?

Aihounton, Ghislain B. D.; Henningsen, Arne - 2023

organic farming on productivity, income, and poverty alleviation have been analyzed in numerous empirical studies, its effects …

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Does organic farming jeopardize food and nutrition security?

Aïhounton, Ghislain B. D.; Henningsen, Arne - 2023

organic farming on productivity, income, and poverty alleviation have been analyzed in numerous empirical studies, its effects …

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Cash crop choice and income dynamics in rural areas : evidence for post-crisis Indonesia

Klasen, Stephan; Priebe, Jan; Rudolf, Robert - 2010

In this paper we investigate the factors affecting income levels, income growth, and poverty reduction in rural …

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Young entrepreneurs in rural Africa : prevalence, determinants, productivity

Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - 2014

Africa is not only the poorest and most rural continent, it is also the most youthful continent in terms of population. Given the large number of young job seekers that will enter the labor market over the next decade, we need a better understanding of rural non-farm entrepreneurship,...

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Non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa : patterns and determinants

Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - 2014

We are the first to provide a comparative empirical analysis of non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa, using the World Bank's unique LSMSISA dataset. This dataset covers six countries over the period 2005 to 2012. We find that rural enterprises tend to be small, informal household...

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Labor productivity in rural African enterprises : empirical evidence from the LSMS-ISA

Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - 2014

Although non-farm enterprises are ubiquitous in rural Sub-Saharan Africa, little is yet known about their productivity. In this paper we contribute to filling this gap by providing estimates of labor productivity in enterprises for Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda. Using the World Bank's...

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Cash Crop Choice and Income Dynamics in Rural Areas: Evidence for Post-Crisis Indonesia

Klasen, Stephan; Priebe, Jan; Rudolf, Robert - 2010

In this paper we investigate the factors affecting income levels, income growth, and poverty reduction in rural …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329919