Agricultural research in marginal dry areas can contribute to reducing poverty through the development of technological … implications on where and how research must be targeted to have impact on poverty. Households less endowed in land and natural … discuss the pathways that these different groups can undertake to escape poverty, with emphasis on those that use agricultural …

Vulnerability to poverty is a major problem in the rural areas of Sub Saharan Africa. Rural Households are confronted … contribution of indigenous fruit trees towards reducing vulnerability to food insecurity and poverty. The methodology used is a …

rural areas and the poor, although they should be beneficial not only for overall growth, but also rural growth and poverty …

poverty among them. Our analyses also find that the dissemination leads to the overexploitation of groundwater, and thus … wells creates double tragedies: not only increased poverty among the no-well-access farmers but also overexploitation and …

households behind. In this paper, we demonstrate a new approach to measuring poverty trends over time. First, the relationship … between poverty and household characteristics is estimated using household budget survey data. Second, this relationship is … results suggest that the headcount poverty rate has declined by almost 9 percentage points over 1991-2003. The percentagepoint …

change in rice price on the one hand, and poverty and food insecurity (measured by calorie intake) on the other, are … increase in the real income of consumers following lower prices for a staple food, the poverty rate is calculated to fall from … 0.24 to 0.16. The measures of poverty gap and poverty severity are also expected to fall, by 0.07 and 0.26 respectively …

In spite of rapid overall economic growth in the 1990s, rural poverty in Pakistan did not decline. Panel data covering … impact on rural poverty. …

income of the poorest households and largely explain the recent increase in rural poverty. …