Rural Diversity and heterogeneity in less-favoured areas: the quest for policy targeting

By Ruerd Ruben, John Pender. 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Sociology and Political Science

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Analysing trade-offs in resource and labour allocation by smallholder farmers using inverse modelling techniques: A case-study from Kakamega district, western Kenya (2007, background): “, 2006), poor development of factor markets (Ruben and Pender, 2004), and the fact that smallholder farms are spatially heterogeneous, due to the existence of gradients of decreasing soil fertility with increasing distance from the homestead (Tittonell et al.”
Conservation agriculture, organic marketing, and collective action in the Honduran hillsides (2010, background): “Less-favored rain-fed lands, which account for approximately 54% of the total agricultural area worldwide, are predominantly found in hillside and dryland areas and are characterized by resource degradation and low agricultural productivity due to poor climate, soils, and topography (Kuyvenhoven et ”
The Impacts of Public Investment in and for Agriculture: Synthesis of the Existing Evidence (2012, background): “…public investments in high-potential areas may decline—in other words, further improvements in agricultural productivity in these areas can only be achieved at a large cost after there is a relative saturation of high-potential areas with the outputs of public investments (Ruben and Pender 2004).”
Social capital, governance and performance of Ethiopian coffee cooperatives (2012, background): “Earlier studies on rural development options for less-developed areas also identify access to roads and infrastructure as a key factor for market-induced entrepreneurship (Dercon et al. 2008; Ruben and Pender 2004).”
Spatial patterns of organic agriculture adoption: Evidence from Honduras (2014, background): “Low-potential agricultural areas include for example hillsides that are heavily exposed to soil erosion and degradation (Ruben and Pender, 2004).”