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The demand for agricultural land is globally increasing due to population growth and dietary diversification. As the availability of agricultural land is limited, much of the cropland expansion is occurring at the expense of tropical forests. During the past few decades, oil palm has become one...
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income mobility in Malaysia in 2004-16. On aggregate, there were large reductions in chronic poverty and increases in … comparing affluent urban Peninsular Malaysia with poorer rural East Malaysia. Although there are important differences in … welfare levels between the main ethnic groups in Malaysia, the mobility trends generally point in the same direction. While …
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With a surface area of 1,267,000 square kilometres, Niger is a vast Sahelian country located in the south of the Sahara Desert, which covers over two thirds of its land. In 2015, it had an estimated population of 17 million inhabitants and a particularly high growth rate of 3.3 per cent. It is...
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We investigate the impact of smallholder vegetable commercialization through the export and domestic market channels on household income and assets in Kenya. We use a survey panel dataset, which allows us to control for unobserved heterogeneity across households, and show that the...
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-food cash crop, the revenues it generates can boost food security among smallholders via the income channel and can also promote …
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