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Diversification of income sources for cocoa farm households : a case study of the Central West of Côte d'Ivoire

Iritié, Bi Goli Jean Jacques; Djaléga, Fabrice Soukou - 2015

This paper is aimed at identifying complementary sources of income for cocoa farm households in the Central West of Côte d’Ivoire. Our methodology con- sists of four successive stages: (i) a need assessment of cocoa households and specificities of the study area through a participatory...

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Crop diversification increased household welfare in Afghanistan (2011-2017)

Ahmadzai, Hayatullah; Morrissey, Oliver - 2023

Crop diversification is a farm level strategy to augment income, improve food security, and mitigate risks attributable to climate and market shocks. We use three-waves (2011/12 to 2016/17) of nationally representative repeated cross section surveys to study the impact of crop diversification on...

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Posh spice or scary spice? The impacts of Madagascar's vanilla boom on household well-being

Boone, Christopher; Kaila, Heidi; Sahn, David E. - 2022

We contribute to the long debate on whether export commodity revenues can lead to economic development by studying the consequences of the nearly six-fold increase in the global price of vanilla on vanilla farming communities in Madagascar. We find a substantial increase in the wealth and...

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Heterogeneous market participation channels and household welfare

Dzanku, Fred Mawunyo; Asante, Kofi Takyi; Hodey, Louis … - In: Oxford development studies 52 (2024) 1, pp. 74-93

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The effects of integrated soil fertility management on household welfare in Ethiopia

Hörner, Denise; Wollni, Meike - 2020

Integrated Soil Fertility Management (ISFM) is a technology package consisting of the joint use of improved seeds, organic and inorganic fertilizers. It is increasingly promoted to enhance soil fertility, crop productivity and income of smallholder farmers. While studies find positive effects of...

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Aspirations and livelihood diversification in rural Africa

Guthoff, Jonas; Mutsami, Chrispinus; Parlasca, Martin … - 2024

Many people in rural Africa still rely on smallholder agriculture as their main source of livelihood. Yet pursuing other economic activities beyond farming to diversify incomes becomes increasingly important. In this paper, we focus on the role of people's income aspirations in the process of...

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Household Shocks and Consumption Smoothing : Evidence From Northern Bangladesh

Bakhtiar, M. Mehrab; Rabbani, Atonu - 2022

Poor households in rural Bangladesh often face concurring idiosyncratic and aggregate shocks, which have adverse impacts on their income and consumption. In this study, we investigate the transmission channels, coping responses, and economic consequences of different shocks including...

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Market distance and household income : quasi-experimental evidence from Mongolia

Lkhanaa, Tseveenjav - 2024

This paper examines the impact of access to markets on livestock-related income of herder households in Mongolia. The empirical findings show that reducing the distance to markets by ten kilometers increases household income by 1.0 percent on average.

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Climate variability and household welfare in northern Ghana

Nkegbe, Paul Kwame; Kuunibe, Naasegnibe - 2014

Climate variability poses a major risk to agricultural incomes in Africa. In Ghana, most of the country's poor people … investigates the impact of climate variability on household welfare in the area using a three-period panel data from the Ghana … Living Standards Survey, in addition to data on annual rainfall and temperature for northern Ghana for the period 1991 to …

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Rural Policies, Price Change and Poverty in Tanzania : An Agricultural Household Model-Based Assessment

Tiberti, Luca - 2015

Exogenous shocks to farmers' consumption, production and labour market decisions are rarely considered accurately. For farm households, under labour market imperfections, such decisions are often interlinked. This calls for non-separable agricultural household models. According to this...

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