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 … multi-period stochastic household income model. The data were collected in a case study in Zimbabwe using detailed monthly …

purpose-collected panel data from Zimbabwe, we demonstrate seven empirical regularities in the rural poverty …

Those who study global poverty and ways to reduce it face a perennial set of questions: Do advances in knowledge … benefits? The contributors to Agricultural Research, Livelihoods, and Poverty shed light on these questions through a … collection of case studies that explore the types of impact that agricultural research has had on livelihoods and poverty in low …

A household survey conducted in rural Zimbabwe in 2001 is used to compare the position of de facto and de jure female …-headed households to those with a male head. These households are characterised by different forms of poverty that impinge on their … female-headed households’ productivity is lower than that found for male-headed households. General poverty alleviation …

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 … multi-period stochastic household income model. The data were collected in a case study in Zimbabwe using detailed monthly …

reports of food insecurity in Zimbabwe. Previous studies have taken only the views of the household head into consideration in …