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 …

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 …

the trade-offs between health and poverty reduction by considering the impacts of water harvesting on health in Tigray …

Abstract: Informal risk-sharing is often cited as a key factor for sustainable poverty alleviation in developing … informal risk-sharing more reliable, thus alleviating the vulnerability to poverty. Even in areas with developed financial … to poverty will be reduced but not vanish if households participate in the formal risk-sharing market. Confucian culture …

effects on the welfare of smallholder farmers. Poverty reduction is an important sustainable development goal and a clearer … understanding of the factors that could lead to poverty is important for effective targeted policy initiatives in Nigeria …. Investigating the potential relationship between land access and household poverty-related outcomes is of great relevance for both …

smallholder cotton farmers in Benin and includes both conventional cotton farmers who extensively use synthetic pesticides and … organic cotton farmers who are only allowed to use bio-pesticides. Using per-capita health expenditure as proxy for the health … of the farmers, our results show that conventional cotton farmers generally have significantly poorer health than organic …

's geographic variation in the suitability for cotton production combined with a surge in the world market price of cotton in 2010 … command political capital to coerce workers. The expansion in land attributed to cotton production led to increases in labor … demand and wages for cotton pickers; however, the price hike benefits only workers on entrepreneurial private farms, whereas …

's geographic variation in the suitability for cotton production combined with a surge in the world market price of cotton in 2010 … command political capital to coerce workers.The expansion in land attributed to cotton production led to increases in labor … demand and wages for cotton pickers; however, the price hike benefits only workers on entrepreneurial private farms, whereas …

control of domestic agents. While current poverty impacts of cotton cropping are relatively small, there is high potential for …) for the Mozambique Zambezi Valley cotton concession sub-region to examine the economy-wide impacts and relative changes in … the levels of income poverty of grower and non-grower household groups, following exogenous shocks, such as contract …