Heterogeneous Constraints, Incentives and Income Diversification Strategies in Rural Africa

By Christopher B. Barrett, M. Bezuneh, D. Clay, T. Reardon. 2001

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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Smallholder Technical Efficiency: Controlling for Environmental Production Conditions (2002, neutral): “14 This likely reflects that farming is a secondary occupation for those with formal schooling, who focus primarily on the superior income distribution available through nonfarm employment based on education and skills (Barrett et al., 2001).”
Household Livelihood Strategies and Implication for Poverty Reduction in Rural Areas of Central Nepal (2017, background): “Livestock value Estimated value of total livestock owned by household in Nepalese Rupees (NPR) [12,13] HHs owning livestock with higher value are supposed to follow commercially oriented on-farm LSs”
Income Diversification And Poverty in the Northern Uplands of Vietnam (2006, background): “On the other hand, it suggests that nonfarm activities involve some barriers to entry, such as education or capital, that make it difficult for poor households to participate (Barrett et al. 2000).”
Livelihood Strategies in the Rural Kenyan Highlands (2006, background): “In the livelihoods literature, strategies are commonly identified by broad but inherently arbitrary rules that partition the sample among exogenously defined groupings of activities, for example by looking at activity choices in different income quartiles (Barrett et al. 2005).”
Determinants of income diversification among rural households: The case of smallholder farmers in Fedis district, Eastern hararghe zone, Ethiopia (2013, background): “In assessing diversification strategies of households, Barrett et al. (2005) and Reardon et al. (2001) indicate that because of differences in initial asset endowments, rich and poor households diversify differently.”
Patterns of income diversification in rural Nigeria: determinants and impacts. (2009, result): “These findings generally agree with those of previous studies in countries of SubSaharan Africa, which have shown that richer households have more diversified livelihood strategies, while full time farming is more common among poorer households (BROWN et al., 2006; BARRETT et al., 2005; DAMITE and N”
Non-farm income, household welfare, and sustainable land management in a less-favoured area in the Ethiopian highlands (2004, background): “The unequal distribution of nonfarm income indicates, however, that there are substantial entry barriers and steep investment requirements to participation in non-farm activities capable of lifting them out of poverty (Barrett et al., 2001).”
Nonfarm Income Diversification and Household Livelihood Strategies in Rural Africa: Concepts, Dynamics and Policy Implications (2001, background): “The fact that diversification rises with wealth or income in both absolute and proportional terms in rural Africa (Reardon, 1997; Reardon et al., 1998; Barrett et al., 2000) underscores that risk mitigation cannot satisfactorily explain observed patterns of nonfarm activity on the continent.”
Income diversification, poverty traps and policy shocks in Côte d’Ivoire and Kenya (2001, background): “In comparative work across different African agroecologies, Barrett et al. (2000) found that strategies including non-farm income stochastically dominate those based entirely on agriculture, while the farm and skilled non-farm and full time farmer strategies generally offer superior returns to the…”