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 …

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 …

The expansion of supermarkets in developing countries may have far-reaching consequences for poverty and rural … significant poverty reduction. To realize these benefits on a larger scale will require institutional and policy support. …

phone can increase off-farm employment and reduce poverty. However, such effects have hardly been studied. To fill this gap … non-monetary aspects of poverty. Using instrumental variable approach, we find that mobile phone ownership increases … household total income andper capita income while it alleviates poverty headcount, depth of poverty, and multidimensional …

project. The HORTINLEA project is an inter-disciplinary research project addressing food security in East Africa, particularly …