Migration and Income Diversification Evidence from Burkina Faso

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South–South Migration and Human Development: Reflections on African Experiences (2009, background): “In general, discussions about the relationship between migration in the South and human capital have been largely concerned with impact on rural labour supplies and reductions in agricultural production (Wouterse and Taylor 2008).”
Impacts of climate variability and change on fishery-based livelihoods (2010, background): “007 plicity (several income generating activities), occupational mobility and diversification outside fisheries (entering or exiting the fishery sector), geographical mobility (migration) and diversification within-in the fisheries sector (species, multiple gears) [21,114,115].”
Livelihood adaptations to climate variability: insights from farming households in Ghana (2014, background): “For example, migration has been used as an adaptive measure to drought-induced food insecurity in SSA (Rademacher-Schulz et al. 2013; Mortimore and Adams 2001; Wouterse and Taylor 2008).”
Linking agricultural adaptation strategies, food security and vulnerability: evidence from West Africa (2016, unknown): “Although one might think that households relying mainly on off-farm income for their livelihoods might not be willing to invest much effort in agricultural innovations and adaptations, it all depends on the type of off-farm income: remittances from migration of household members may enable household”