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Smallholder Income Diversification in Zambia: The Way Out of Poverty?

Bigsten, Arne; Tengstam, Sven - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2008

1) One can achieve poverty reduction in rural areas of Zambia by both growth and inequality reduction, but growth must …

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Indian Farmers' Valuation of Crop Yield Distributions: Will poor farmers value 'pro-poor' seeds?

Lybbert, Travis J. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2005

Potential poverty traps among the rural poor suggest a need to reduce poor farmers' vulnerability by stabilizing crop …

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Forestry policy and poverty: the case of community forestry in Nepal

Dhakal, Bhubaneswor; Bigsby, Hugh R.; Cullen, Ross - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2005

increase in poverty of rural areas. …

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Assessment of Poverty among Arable Crop Farmers: A Case Study of Farmers Empowerment Programme (FEP) in Osun State, Nigeria

A. B., Ayanwale; Adisa, O. D. - In: Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development 02 (2012) 03

and analyzed the poverty status in terms of incidence, depth and severity among arable crop farmers in Osun State and …-test of difference of two means and p-alpha measures of poverty. The result of poverty incidence, depth, and severity among … respondents indicated that poverty incidence was lower among the FEP beneficiaries (0.42) than the non beneficiaries (0 …

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Profile of Hired Farmworkers, A 2008 Update

Kandel, William - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2008

sections on legal status, poverty, housing, and use of social services. …

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Chieftaincy and the distributive politics of an agricultural input subsidy programme in a rural Malawian village

Wroe, Daniel - 2017

The decline of industry in Southern Africa has prompted James Ferguson to question the bases on which the region's poor may justify claims on resources, if not through their labour. This article builds from Fergsuon's work by looking at the continuing importance of chieftaincy to distributive...

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Social Capital, Tourism and Socio-Economic Transformation of Rural Society: Evidence from Nepal

Shakya, Martina - 2014

Tourism has a wide range of impacts on the economy, the natural environment and the people living in a destination. In the context of poor, rural societies, many scholars have emphasized the positive impacts of tourism on local economic growth. Concern has been voiced, however, about the social...

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From rice fields to red light districts: an economic examination of factors motivating employment in Thailand’s sex industry

Wittman, Cori - 2011

Master of Agribusiness

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Evaluation of the European Commission’s Cooperation with the Philippines : Final Report ; Volume 1

Dosch, Jörn (contributor); MacKellar, Landis (contributor); … - PARTICIP GmbH Consultants für Entwicklung und Umwelt, … - 2011

The evaluation of the Commission’s co-operation with the Philippines is part of the 2009 evaluation programme as approved by External Relations and Development Commissioners and aiming at ensuring accountability for the management of the allocated funds as well as promoting a lesson-learning...

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Evaluation of EC co-operation with the LAO PDR : Final Report ; Volume 1

MacKellar, Landis (contributor); Dosch, Jörn (contributor); … - PARTICIP GmbH Consultants für Entwicklung und Umwelt, … - 2009

The overall purpose of this evaluation is to ensure accountability for the use of allocated resources as well as to promote a lesson-learning culture in EC development cooperation. The main specific objectives of the evaluation were: •to provide the relevant external co-operation services of...

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