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The world rice market has been unstable for much of its post-world war II history, with prices volatile and the [...]

In recent years, there has been increasing emphasis in the rural development literature on the multiple income-generating activities undertaken by rural [...]

Evidence from developing countries points towards the growing importance of non-farm activities in the income-generating portfolio of rural households (Lanjouw [...]

The State of Food and Agriculture 2002 is FAO’s annual report on current developments and issues in world agriculture. It [...]

Urbanization and globalization may enhance access to non traditional foods as a result of changing prices and production practices, as [...]

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

While Nicaragua over the past decade has ranked among the poorest countries in Latin America in terms of per capita [...]

Throughout the world, women constitute a large portion of the economically active population engaged in agriculture, both as farmers and [...]

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

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, [...]