Smallholders and rural poverty

This paper investigates the livestock asset positions of rural households and the contribution of livestock to their income in 12 [...]

This paper examines gender differentiated asset dynamics over a 20 year period (1988-2008) in Northern Nigeria. The paper first examines [...]

This paper reviews rural women’s access to financial services, a key factor of successful rural development strategies. Designing appropriate financial [...]

This paper considers the impact of gender specific constraints on the production and marketing of cash crops. Cash crop production [...]

The present paper attempts to identify the groups of households that most likely will face positive or negative welfare consequences as [...]

This paper explores a 15-country household data base to evaluate the impact of three key assets (land, education and infrastructure) [...]

This paper has two main objectives. Firstly, it provides an overview of trends in the magnitude, location and nature of [...]

This paper uses the well-known Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition technique to understand the determinants of wage-gaps between men and women, between urban [...]

Rural agriculture uses more than one-third of the earth’s land and employs more than 40% of the population, a figure [...]

This paper assesses the current rural development practice against the main trends in recent rural development thinking, based on evidence [...]