The (Evolving) Role of Agriculture in Poverty Reduction: An Empirical Perspective

By L. Christiaensen, L. Demery, Jesper J. Kuhl. 2011

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Subfields: Business and International Management, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Sociology and Political Science

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Economic development, structural change, and women’s labor force participation: (2013, positive): “…accounting identity that shows how changes in the female employment rate are related to sector-specific growth in value added (see Ravallion and Datt 1996; Loayza and Raddatz 2010; Christiaensen et al. 2011 for a similar approach in relating changes in poverty to sectoral value-added growth).”
Developmental Drivers of Nutritional Change: A Cross-Country Analysis (2013, background): “However, the impact of each sector’s growth rate on malnutrition will obviously depend on the size of the sector, or what Christiaensen et al. (2011) term the “participation effect.””
Agricultural labour productivity, food prices and sustainable development impacts and indicators (2013, background): “Following a long standing literature on the role of agricultural development in wider development processes (for example John-ston and Mellor, 1961; Mellor, 1995; Timmer, 1988) and in line with more recent empirical work (Christiaensen et al., 2011), Fig.”
Green Revolution: Impacts, limits, and the path ahead (2012, background): “25 times the contribution of equivalent investment in the service sector (40).”
Impact of tissue culture banana technology on farm household income and food security in Kenya (2014, background): “Recent research has analyzed productivity, income, and poverty effects of different agricultural technologies (Christiaensen et al., 2010; Cunguara and Darnhofer, 2011; Subramanian and Qaim, 2010; Thirtle et al., 2003).”
Effects of rising rural population density on smallholder agriculture in Kenya (2014, background): “…the brightest prospects for rapid and sustained reductions in poverty and hunger in sub-Saharan Africa (Lipton, 2005; World Bank, 2007; Hazell et al., 2007; Byerlee and de Janvry, 2009; Haggblade, 2009; Christiaensen et al., 2011; Eastwood et al., 2010; Headey et al., 2010; Wiggins et al., 2010).”
Africa's changing farm size distribution patterns: the rise of medium-scale farms (2016, background): “Recent studies have examined the strength of growth multipliers between agriculture and nonagriculture (e.g., Christiaensen et al., 2011; IFPRI CGE modeling work).”
Farm-Level Pathways to Improved Nutritional Status: Introduction to the Special Issue (2015, result): “These results correspond to those by Christiaensen, Demery, and Kuhl (2011) who find that agricultural growth is significantly more effective in reducing poverty among the poorest of the poor.”