Non-farm income, household welfare, and sustainable land management in a less-favoured area in the Ethiopian highlands

By Stein T. Holden, B. Shiferaw, John Pender. 2004

327 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Soil Science

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. Edward B. Barbier
2. John Pender
3. B. Shiferaw
4. Awudu Abdulai
5. Victor Owusu
6. S. Abdul-Rahman
7. Julius Juma Okello
8. R. Reddy

In Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

1. Edward B. Barbier
2. John Pender
3. B. Shiferaw
4. Awudu Abdulai

In Soil Science

1. Edward B. Barbier
2. John Pender
3. B. Shiferaw
4. Awudu Abdulai
5. E. Nkonya
6. Victor Owusu
7. S. Abdul-Rahman
8. Julius Juma Okello

Citations in the corpus

• Linkages between Land Management, Land Degradation, and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Uganda (2008, background): “…labor-intensive land management practices in many contexts (for example, Clay et al. 1998, Shiferaw and Holden 1998, Alemu 1999, Ersado et al. 2003, Holden et al. 2004, Hagos and Holden 2006, and Pender and Gebremedhin 2006, all for northern Ethiopia; Jagger et al. 2006; Jansen et al. 2006), but…”
• Adoption and adaptation of natural resource management innovations in smallholder agriculture: reflections on key lessons and best practices (2009, background): “The empirical findings are mixed (Reardon and Vosti 1997; Pender and Kerr 1998; Holden et al. 2004; Robins and Williams 2005).”
• Non-farm work and food security among farm households in Northern Ghana (2011, background): “security is quite scarce (Lanjouw, 2001; Holden et al., 2004; Chang and Mishra, 2008).”
• Participation by men and women in off-farm activities: An empirical analysis in rural northern Ghana (2009, unknown): “Off-farm income may also increase average income, for example, where seasonal labor demands differ across activities (Holden, Shiferaw, and Pender 2004).”
• Poverty, development, and environment (2010, background): “For example, Holden et al. (2004) found that, in the Ethiopian highlands, better access to low-wage nonfarm employment improved substantially the income of households, but because it also reduced farming activities and food production, increased nonfarm income also undermined the incentives for…”