The need to enhance food security while reducing poverty along with the growing threat imposed by climate change clearly reveal that it is imperative to accelerate agricultural productivity growth. This paper estimates micro-level production models to identify the major factors that have...

The main goal of this dissertation is to investigate the complex rural sector for two of the poorest countries in Central America, Honduras and Nicaragua. The first essay analyzes the main determinants of farm labor productivity and off-farm labor supply by heads and spouses in rural Nicaragua....

The aim of this article was to make a desegregated analyze of socioeconomic profile of the families from Household Budget Survey (POF) in 2002-2003. Secondly, using the logit model, investigated the probability of consumption by two distinct families, one with elderly and another without elder...