Despite being framed as a key component of the nation’s poverty reduction strategy, evidence suggests that inputs …

(FSP/FISP). More than 90% of GRZ funding for Poverty Reduction Programmes is devoted to the FRA and FSP/FISP, yet there has … been no major reduction in rural poverty rates in Zambia since 2004. …

maize production. But ironically, rural poverty remains stubbornly high despite the fact that the government has spent over … that maize production has increased so impressively without making a serious dent in rural poverty? And what are the …

approaches for addressing rural poverty, each giving way to a new paradigm as the persistence of poverty created disillusionment … participatory poverty reduction strategies, and resurgent interest in agricultural development. However, rural poverty in most of … out of poverty, thus providing an opportunity to learn about the economic pathways that might enable other rural …

It might be considered unlikely that inadequate access to land would be one of the major causes of rural poverty in …

This study explores the dynamics of poverty in Kenya. The study specifically examines how initial conditions, household … decisions, and other factors that may change over time affect poverty. Dynamic relationships are identified between behavioral …

escaping from poverty as well as descending into poverty; 3) to determine effects of compound disadvantages on the likelihood … of chronic poverty; and 4) to assess the evidence of spatial poverty traps (SPTs). Quantitative analysis is conducted … those households found to have risen from poverty (starting in the bottom tercile and ending in the top tercile, the …

This study estimates the effects on poverty resulting from maize price changes associated with the operations of the … to generate poverty rankings between the distribution of income with the effects of the government marketing operations … poverty estimates to the type of poverty measure used. Results indicate that the price-elevating effects of government maize …