Livelihood diversification in Uganda: patterns and determinants of change across two rural districts

By D. Smith, A. Gordon, K. Meadows, K. Zwick. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Safety Research

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Income diversification of rural households in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia (2005, background): “(2001) in Tanzania and SMITH et al. (2001) in Uganda show that a better physical access to markets increases non-farm earnings.”
The Effects of Infrastructure Development on Growth and income (2004, unknown): “More generally, Leipziger et al. (2002) 11 For example, in poor rural areas infrastructure expands job opportunities for the less advantaged by reducing the costs to access product and factor markets (Smith et al. 2001).”
The benefits of rural roads: enhancing income opportunities for the rural poor (2002, background): “Smith, Gordon, Meadows and Zwick (2001) show that, for the case of Uganda, the rehabilitation of road infrastructure fostered the expansion of job opportunities in the service sector.”
Fractal Poverty Traps (2006, background): “Smith et al. (2001) find that inter-district differences in agroecological conditions, physical and social services endowment and recent experience of health (especially HIVAIDS) shocks have considerable power in explaining differences in the patterns of livelihoods pursued and the welfare trajector”
Determinants of farm diversification in integrated crop–livestock farming systems in Ghana (2017, background): “This has been an evident rationale in different diversification studies (Abdulai and CroleRees, 2001; Barrett et al., 2001; Block and Webb, 2001; Smith et al., 2001; Niehof, 2004; Seo, 2010).”
Right Target, Wrong Mechanism? Agricultural Modernization and Poverty Reduction in Uganda (2005, result): “A similar observation has been made in relation to non-farm income generating projects in Uganda (Smith et al., 2001).”
Looking ahead: long-term prospects for Africa's agricultural development and food security (2005, background): “Torero and Chowdhury (2005) show that SubSaharan Africa has continued to lag significantly behind other regions in infrastructure investments, including paved roads, telephone lines, and electricity production.”
Climate change, food security, and livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa (2016, background): “…Oberhauser and Pratt 2004), • the diversity of the strategies used by the rural poor to make a living (Abdulai and CroleRees 2001; Batterbury 2001; Smith et al. 2001; Manvell 2006; Yaro 2006), • the success of climate change adaptation strategies (Assan et al. 2009; Jones et al. 2010; Osbahr…”
Rural livelihood diversification and household well-being: Insights from Humla, Nepal (2016, background): “In Uganda, Smith et al. (2001) found offfarm diversification tendency highest in middle income households, whereas the low and high income households diversified the least.”
Determinants of non-farm livelihood diversification: evidence from rainfed-dependent smallholder farmers in northcentral Ethiopia (Woleka sub-basin) (2017, background): “One major impeding factor for smallholder farmers not to participate in non-farm economic sectors is a financial constraint (Smith et al. 2001).”
Infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean: Recent Developments and Key Challenges (2006, background): “For example, in poor rural areas infrastructure expands job opportunities for the less advantaged by reducing the costs of accessing product and factor markets (Smith et al. 2001).”
Measuring household resilience to floods: A case study in the Vietnamese Mekong River Delta (2013, methodology): “This approach has been widely used in rural development and natural hazard studies in developing countries (Smith et al. 2001, Tran et al. 2008).”