• The Zambia Urban Consumption Survey, a survey of 1,865 urban households in Lusaka, Kitwe, Mansa, and Kasama, was … terms of urban consumer expenditures. Maize is no longer the dominant staple food in urban Zambia, except among the poor …. This finding is consistent with broader regional trends toward declining dependence on maize for urban staple food needs …

This brief summarizes detailed analysis of the determinants of household crop income in rural Mozambique from 2002 to … 2005. Increased crop income is associated with increases in household land area, use of animal traction, crop …

This brief summarizes detailed analysis of the determinants of household crop income in rural Mozambique from 2002 to … 2005. Increased crop income is associated with increases in household land area, use of animal traction, crop …

A procedure is developed to examine the ex-post impacts of improved maize varieties on poverty in rural Ethiopia. Yield … varieties have led to noticeable reduction in the poverty headcount ratio, depth, and severity in rural Ethiopia. However, poor …

Most of the population of Nigeria is rural and agriculture is the mainstay of the impoverished people’s livelihood …. This paper estimated the determinants of rural poverty in Nigeria using the Tobit regression model. Through the multistage … sampling technique, primary data were obtained from 150 rural farming households using a questionnaire. The Result of Tobit …

quantify their effects amongGhana’s urban household subgroups. The results indicate that among the significant factors the … largest effect in descending order havelocation, marital status, education, household composition, age, and income. …

rural China, we examine blood sales (or more correctly, “donations with nutrition subsidy”), a widely regarded stigma … blood sales increases one’s sales probability by 12%-21%, sales value by 9%-12%, and a second household member selling blood …