Smallholders and rural poverty

Agriculture and livestock are key components of the livelihoods of the poor. Livestock make a substantial contribution to household livelihoods’ [...]

This study analyses income, expenditure and food consumption data in Ethiopia to help explains the country’s high probability of national [...]

This paper uses cross-sectional data from Mexico before and after the 1994 peso crisis to analyze rural household vulnerability to [...]

Increasing problems of rural unemployment in Indonesia are at the core of this report. Numbers of unemployed increased dramatically after [...]

Prior research on Mexican migration has shown that social networks and economic incentives play an important role in determining migration [...]

This paper provides an assessment of the potential for smallholder agroforestry projects to be competitive in markets for carbon emission [...]

This paper examines the PROGRESA and PROCAMPO cash transfer programs in Mexico and evaluates their impact on household food security [...]

This article explores the role of migrant networks in Mexican rural out-migration focusing on how network composition influences rural-to-rural, rural-to-urban, [...]

An agribusiness firm’s choice to expand activities through contract farming rather than plantations, buying directly from open markets or other [...]

In this paper, we examine whether the causes and patterns of Mexican rural female migration differ significantly from rural male [...]