Household livelihood diversification in rural Africa

M Musumba, CA Palm, AM Komarek… - Agricultural …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Diversification is a common livelihood strategy for rural households in developing countries,
with diversification being either a choice or necessity depending on individual household …

[PDF][PDF] Livelihoods diversification and gender in Malawi

FP Simtowe - African Journal of Agricultural Research, 2010 - academicjournals.org
Scholarly literature portrays rural livelihoods diversification as a continuously occurring
phenomenon that results from the increased importance of off-farm wage labor in the …

Nonfarm income diversification and household livelihood strategies in rural Africa: concepts, dynamics, and policy implications

CB Barrett, T Reardon, P Webb - Food policy, 2001 - Elsevier
Asset, activity and income diversification lie at the heart of livelihood strategies in rural
Africa. This paper introduces a special issue on the topic “Income Diversification and …

Determinants of Livelihood Diversification among Households in the Sub‐Saharan Town of Merawi, Ethiopia

TT Admasu, YA Damtie, MA Taye - Advances in Agriculture, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Livelihood diversification could be determined by complex and diversified factors. Yet, unlike
the rural areas, the situation is unexplored in the case of towns of developing economies …

[PDF][PDF] Rural livelihood diversification and agricultural household welfare in Ghana

EE Asmah - Journal of Development and Agricultural Economics, 2011 - academia.edu
Sufficient time has elapsed since agricultural sector reforms got underway in Ghana and so
this study examined how some selected proxies of the reforms have changed overtime and …

[PDF][PDF] Determinants of rural livelihood diversification: The case of rural households in Lemmo district, Hadiyya Zone of Southern Ethiopia

D Anshiso, M Shiferaw - Journal of economics and Sustainable …, 2016 - researchgate.net
The purpose of this study was to explore the determinants of rural livelihood diversification
activities of the rural household in the Lemmo District, Hadiyya Zone of Southern Ethiopia …

The role of livelihood diversification strategies in the total household income in Takusa Woreda, Amhara Region, Ethiopia

NA Mengistu, RH Belda - Cogent Social Sciences, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Agricultural income alone is insufficient to meet basic amenities for smallholder farm
households, and livelihood diversification strategies are a must in vulnerable and …

Household livelihood diversification and gender: Panel evidence from rural Kenya

SA Loison - Journal of Rural Studies, 2019 - Elsevier
There are high hopes that livelihood diversification could contribute to goals of poverty
reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This study uses household panel data collected in …

[图书][B] Macroeconomic policies and rural livelihood diversification: An Ugandan case-study

AM Balihuta, K Sen - 2001 - assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
The economic reform programme initiated in 1987 in Uganda was one of the most ambitious
programs of economic liberalization in the African continent. Combining both quantitative …

Heterogeneous impact of livelihood diversification on household welfare: Cross-country evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

S Asfaw, A Scognamillo, G Di Caprera, N Sitko… - World Development, 2019 - Elsevier
This article investigates the empirical linkages between crop and livelihood diversification
strategies, extreme weather events, and household welfare using a unique dataset that …