This study investigates the impact of poverty, social capital and land tenure on the adoption of soil fertility … security, level of poverty and participation in community organizations (social capital), and, most importantly, that household … level poverty reduces the probability of adoption of most of the technologies, while social capital and land tenure security …

direct link between household water and economic poverty of rural households, with households’ total monthly income used as … an indicator of economic poverty. An adaptation of a comprehensive water poverty index, which considers water access …, quality, use, and water-related environmental aspects is used to measure household-level water poverty. The empirical analysis …

This paper studies the implications of farm–non-farm population shifts for household poverty outcomes in Cameroon. It …-sector and between-sector effects are important in accounting for the fall in poverty, with the former largely accounting for the … decline in the incidence, depth and severity of poverty. The inter-sector effects portray the role played by farmâ …

This study examined the effect of access to micro-credit on poverty status of rural households in Obafemi-Owode LGA in … aid of FGT poverty index and the Logit regression model. The results of descriptive analysis reveal that majority of the … count poverty index also reveals that about 35 percent of households in the study area were poor, subsisting below the …

In this paper, we develop four paradigms of rural poverty. These paradigms were designed to help explain how different … factors interact and result in significant numbers of rural poor­, poverty that persists even though the national economy has … poverty are partially or even totally under control of the individual in poverty. However, in recent years many of the factors …