Non-farm income, gender, and inequality: evidence from rural Ghana and Uganda

By Sudharshan Canagarajah, C. Newman, R. Bhattamishra. 2001

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Right Target, Wrong Mechanism? Agricultural Modernization and Poverty Reduction in Uganda (2005, background): “[TABLE 4 ABOUT HERE] This reflects growing interest in the role of non-farm income in rural livelihoods in recent years (Reardon, 1997, 1998; Barrett et al., 2001; Ellis, 2000; Bryceson, 1999, 2002; Start, 2001; Canagarajah et al., 2001).”
Non-farm work and food security among farm households in Northern Ghana (2011, background): “One of the greatest challenges still facing most countries in sub-Saharan Africa is how to feed their ever-increasing populations.”
The Future Challenges of Food and Agriculture: An Integrated Analysis of Trends and Solutions (2019, background): “In addition, it was found that poverty rates could decline faster for female-headed households by non-farm income opportunities in rural areas [26].”
Patterns of income diversification in rural Nigeria: determinants and impacts. (2009, background): “This share of off-farm income fits reasonably well into the available recent literature for Sub-Saharan Africa (DAVIS et al., 2007; WOLDENHANNA and OSKAM, 2001), although the definition of what exactly constitutes off-farm income slightly varies across studies.”
Rural livelihood diversification and household well-being: Insights from Humla, Nepal (2016, background): “The poorer households, on the other hand, are trapped in the same low return sectors resulting in overall widening of inequality (Reardon et al., 2000; Barrett et al., 2001b; Canagarajah et al., 2001).”
Shocks, Consumption and Income Diversification in Rural Ethiopia (2012, background): “For example Canagarajah et al. (2001) cite agricultural income share in Ghana and Uganda as being around 40 to 50 per cent.”
Does the Nonfarm Economy Offer Pathways for Upward Mobility? Evidence from a Panel Data Study in Ethiopia (2012, background): “A study looking at nonfarm employment in Ghana and Uganda (Canagarajah et al., 2001) also found that the shares of nonfarm income were larger in higher income brackets.”
Climate change, food security, and livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa (2016, background): “…development in subSaharan Africa, including: • the effects of power and gender relations on the lives of specific groups of people (e.g., women) (Canagarajah et al. 2001; Mandel 2004; Oberhauser and Pratt 2004), • the diversity of the strategies used by the rural poor to make a living…”
Gender and Modern Supply Chains in Developing Countries (2012, background): “Such gender discrimination in wages and work conditions has been documented for other sectors (Canagarajah et al., 2001; Fontana et al., 1998; Lanjouw and Lanjouw, 2001; Zhang et al., 2004) .”