Household Income Diversification into Rural Nonfarm Activities

By T. Reardon, J. Berdegué, Christopher B. Barrett, K. Stamoulis. 2006

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Household-Level Consumption in Urban Ethiopia: The Effects of a Large Food Price Shock (2012, background): “Reardon et al. (2007) discuss how rural households may choose to engage in non-farm income generating activities to deal with risk and shocks.”
The Sloping Land Conversion Program in China: Effect on the Livelihood Diversification of Rural Households (2015, background): “According to Barrett, Reardon et al. (2001), there are two types of motivations, the first is related to “push factors” and the second is related to “pull factors”.”
Structural Transformation and Rural Change Revisited: Challenges for Late Developing Countries in a Globalizing World (2012, background): “These fi gures, as well as the small number of households engaged in agricultural labor, confi rm the limited contribution of agricultural wages to income diversifi cation and to poverty alleviation (Reardon et al. 2007).”
‘Recession push’ and ‘prosperity pull’ entrepreneurship in a rural developing context (2013, background): “Instead, people in rural areas are often having to cope with shocks, risks and seasonality related to agricultural production (Reardon et al. 2007).”
Heterogeneous impact of livelihood diversification on household welfare: Cross-country evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa (2019, background): “) (Bandyopadhyay & Skoufias, 2013; Reardon et al., 2006); or to deal with the uncertainty of agricultural production (ex-ante) (Asmah, 2011; Babatunde & Qaim, 2009; Ellis, 1998, 2004; Ersado, 2003; Newsham & Thomas, 2009).”
Shocks, Consumption and Income Diversification in Rural Ethiopia (2012, background): “Reardon et al. (2007) review the growing importance of non-farm wage income in the developing world, especially for households with volatile crop income, noting both ‘push’ and ‘pull’ factors as motives for diversification.”
Are Rural Youth in Ethiopia Abandoning Agriculture (2014, background): “On average, the share of rural non-farm income to household total income is reported to be approximately 35% in Africa (Reardon et al., 2007).”