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welfare of smallholder farmers. Poverty reduction is a crucial sustainable development goal, and a clearer understanding of … the factors contributing to poverty is essential for effective, targeted policy initiatives in Nigeria. Investigating the … potential relationship between land access and household poverty-related outcomes is highly relevant for both land and social …
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It is well known in theory that certain forms of non-linear dynamics in household incomes can yield poverty traps and … poverty will be an investment with lasting benefits, and pro-poor redistribution will promote aggregate economic growth. We …. While we find evidence of non-linearity, there is no sign of a dynamic poverty trap. Existing private and social …
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Carbon farming, particularly soil carbon climate strategies, has emerged as a popular tool in addressing climate change and variability in worldwide agriculture. Yet, there is a paucity of evidence on its application, and even more so, limited evidence exists on the welfare impacts in developing...
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employers are not obligated to provide at least minimum wages to all employees. U.S. farm employers comprise one of these groups. Employees of large farms and H2-A workers (temporary nonimmigrant workers lawfully admitted to perform temporary or seasonal agricultural services) are protected by...
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Global poverty rates have declined considerably, but the number of people living in extreme poverty remains high. Many … commercialization on income poverty, but whether income gains from commercialization are really used for satisfying basic needs was … hardly analyzed up till now. Here, we evaluate the effect of commercialization on income poverty, as well as on the …
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households involved in cotton tend to show better long-run anthropometric outcomes, no systematic differences are observed in …
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The poverty levels in Eritrea are alarming. In the light of the escalating nature of poverty, there is an urgent need … for a poverty alleviation initiative to reduce miseries of the majority of the poor. An attempt is made in this paper to … analyse the incidence of poverty in the country with a particular focus on Agriculture. It also shed a light on the …
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This study examines if household access to microfinance reduces poverty in Pakistan, and if so, to what extent and … across which dimensions of well-being by taking account of the multi-dimensional aspect of poverty. The study draws on first … participating households, that is, the poverty reducing-effects were observed and statistically significant on a number of …
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This paper measures the impacts of cash crops on household consumption expenditure and poverty in rural Viet Nam using … result, crop sales have positive and statistically significant impacts on poverty reduction for crop-growing households and … the rural population. The poverty-reducing impacts are found to be positive for all three Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty …
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the trade-offs between health and poverty reduction by considering the impacts of water harvesting on health in Tigray …
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