Rural Nonfarm Employment and Incomes in Latin America: Overview and Policy Implications

By T. Reardon, J. Berdegué, G. Escobar. 2001

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Subfields: Business and International Management, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Safety Research

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Rural Nonfarm Activities and Poverty in the Brazilian Northeast (2001, background): “This has been documented extensively in Latin America (summarized in Reardon et al., 2001) as well as in Africa and Asia.”
An Integrated Economic and Social Analysis to Assess the Impact of Vegetable and Fishpond Technologies on Poverty in Rural Bangladesh (2003, neutral): “11 This pattern is consistent with that noted by Reardon et al. (2001) for Latin America.”
Are Rural Youth in Ethiopia Abandoning Agriculture (2014, result): “one of the most consistent relations found in the literature (see, for example, Reardon, 1997; Reardon et al., 2001; Winters et al., 2009).”
Does the Nonfarm Economy Offer Pathways for Upward Mobility? Evidence from a Panel Data Study in Ethiopia (2012, background): “Several studies across developing countries have shown that participation in rural nonfarm employment (RNFE) is positively correlated with total income, wealth and even agricultural productivity (Reardon, 1997, Lanjouw and Lanjouw, 2001, Reardon et al., 2001, Haggblade, 2007).”
Exploring Strategies that Build Livelihood Resilience: a Case from Cambodia (2006, background): “This finding is consistent with Reardon et al. (2001) who argue that it is important to understand the synergies among assets, as well as the synergies among different families’ livelihoods; and to recognize that these synergies occur at a point in time, but also across time.”
Off‐farm labour allocation decisions in small‐scale rural households in Zimbabwe (2004, background): “7 Reardon et al. (2001), for example, emphasise the importance”
Rural nonfarm income and its impact on agriculture: evidence from Albania (2009, background): “The rural nonfarm sector may harbor high productivity activities in which household resources would receive higher returns and pave an alternative path out of poverty (Ferreira and Lanjouw, 2001; Lanjouw, 1999, 2001; Reardon et al., 2001).”
Assets, Activities and Income Generation in Rural Mexico: Factoring in Social and Public Capital (2002, background): “Reardon et al. (2001), for example, show that, based on a set of studies from Latin America, rural nonfarm activities make up 40 percent of rural household income.”