Nonfarm Income Diversification and Household Livelihood Strategies in Rural Africa: Concepts, Dynamics and Policy Implications

By Christopher B. Barrett, T. Reardon, P. Webb. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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Risk coping strategies in tropical forests: floods, illnesses, and resource extraction (2004, background): “A good example is wage labor which is a common response in other rural areas like SubSaharan Africa (Barrett et al., 2001).”
Farmer strategies for tree crop diversification in the humid tropics. A review (2013, neutral): “In this sense, diversification can be understood as a form of “ self-insurance ” (Barrett et al. 2001).”
Livelihoods Strategies and Household Resilience to Food Insecurity: An Empirical Analysis to Kenya (2010, background): “…are still essential within social and economic research on poverty and food security, both as embedded in research strategies or as a research tool (Carter and May, 1997; Orr and Mwale, 2001; Barrett et al., 2001; Brown et al., 2006; Devereux, 2006; Ellis and Freeman, 2007; Babulo et al., 2008).”
Addressing poverty and inequality in the rural economy from a global perspective (2015, background): “…poor are unlikely to be the first to benefit from RNAE opportunities, which may be limited to a “subpopulation of relatively well-endowed households” (Barrett et al., 2001: 329), where “those who begin poor in land and capital face an uphill battle to overcome entry barriers and steep investment…”
Linkages between Land Management, Land Degradation, and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Uganda (2008, background): “In rural Africa nonfarm activities often account for 40 percent or more of household income, and these appear to be growing in importance (Reardon 1997; Barrett, Reardon, and Webb 2001).”
Policies for sustainable development in the hillside areas of Honduras: a quantitative livelihoods approach (2006, methodology): “Birch-Thomsen et al. (2001) used indices to weigh the importance of different sources of household income.”
Bio-economic evaluation of farmers' perceptions of viable farms in western Kenya (2006, background): “…should attract rural investments in provision of farm inputs and services, value adding and/or processing of farm produce that would open up new opportunities previously inaccessible to rural populations (De Janvry and Sadoulet, 2005; Gardner, 2005; Minot and Ngigi, 2004; Barrett et al., 2001).”
Poverty, sustainability, and household livelihood strategies in Zagros, Iran (2012, background): “Access to markets may create better opportunities for nonfarm activities and hence higher levels of household income (Barrett et al., 2001; Escobal, 2001; Haggblade et al., 1989; Reardon, 1997) and also the production of high-value perishable commodities (Pender, 2004).”
Strategies For Sustainable Land Management And Poverty Reduction In Uganda (2004, neutral): “…a rapidly growing literature on rural nonfarm income and livelihood diversification in developing countries (for example, Reardon 1997; Ellis 2000; Barrett et al. 2001; Reardon et al. 2001b), but little of this investigates the implications of livelihood diversification for natural resource…”
Does Non-farm Income Affect Food Security? Evidence from India (2019, methodology): “Based upon the arguments by Barrett et al. (2001), Pritchard et al. (2014) and Chambers and Conway (1992), we classify sources of rural income into categories based upon location and nature of work.”