Sitko and Jayne (2014) describe similar findings for farm-level data from Zambia: larger farms had lower shares of land being used for cropping or other intensive productive activities than smaller holdings. Due to ethnic and social differences, large-scale and small-scale farmers may have little...
allocated inputs, but under improved farm management practices. Whereas we did not find evidence for possible age-related technological differences in agricultural production in Ghana, we did find strong support for possible age-induced managerial differences in farm production, with youth operators being...
Instead, mining and tobacco companies have emerged as important economic players, filling the development vacuum created by the government’s absence in Nansanga. As immigration for casual mining jobs increases, there is land dispossession in some places, and curtailed access to dambos that used to...
While there is a consensus that rural poverty has to be reduced, there are two opposing views on the role that agriculture can play in this regard: a “farm-based” and an “off-farm led” development paradigm where the respective other sector is merely a complementary income source during ...
In addition, improved sorghum seeds, fertilizer, and chemicals are distributed to farmers at subsidized rates under the Planting for Food and Jobs flagship program. The interventions aim at increasing farm productivity, rural income and welfare among farmers [2]. Previous studies on ISV adoption in...
The reason was that in the study area, highly educated farmers tend to do farming as their second job. Therefore, they do not concentrate on the farming sector mainly, but busy themselves with their primary jobs as public officers, teachers, or sellers. These results are similar to Kune, S...
Using FMRSs can increase on-farm income while allowing household laborers, who would otherwise work at home, to pursue jobs elsewhere. In Figure 1b, the intensity of off-farm work is significant across the entire income distribution except for the 5th and 10th quantiles. Coefficients of off-...