Showing 1 - 10 of 495
The impact of large commercial farms on neighbouring smallholders in low-income sub-Saharan Africa remains controversial. Bringing evidence to a largely anecdotal debate, we deploy a dataset covering all commercial farms in Mozambique, linking them to a nationally representative survey of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557662
Prior to 2009, there was no direct road connection between the southern regions of Mozambique - where the capital city is located - and the more agriculturally-productive central and northern regions. In this paper, we leverage the opening of a major road bridge to identify the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776440
In this study we analyze the gender gap in agricultural productivity in Mozambique applying the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition approach on data from four agricultural surveys between 2002 and 2012. We find that female-headed households are on average substantially less productive (about 20 per...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586806
accelerated growth of both agriculture and non-agricultural sectors. Vast challenges of still widespread poverty and food … poverty reduction in still disadvantaged regions of Asia will need to be different as well. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011894303
This paper studies the dynamics of the agricultural sector in Mozambique, focusing on the role of commercial farms. Using agricultural survey data from 2002 to 2012, we analyse the spatial distribution of large farms and identify factors influencing their location decisions. We find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573929
have affected progress in the agriculture sector suggests the need for concerted reorientation in existing strategies … of agriculture in Mozambique within a long-term perspective, focusing on the adoption and stabilization of an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012608565
development of the agricultural sector. We refer to the need to think about the future of agriculture in Mozambique from a long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012301902
production periods. The mines led to an increase in consumption and a decline in poverty, because of workers moving out of … agriculture into higher-paid jobs in the mining and service sectors. This effect is especially strong for women, who gained wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550295
Measuring poverty remains a complex and contentious issue. This is particularly true in sub-Saharan Africa where … poverty rates are higher, information bases typically weaker, and the underlying determinants of welfare relatively volatile … poverty with focus on the period 2002/03 to 2008/09. The paper contributes in four areas. First, the period in question was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008903416
of GDP growth. However, absolute poverty remains persistent, spilling over into social unrest. To better understand the … productivity and stimulate labour-intensive exports. -- Mozambique ; labour market ; jobs ; agriculture ; structural transformation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009734287