This article reviews the recent literature on diversification as a livelihood strategy of rural
households in developing countries, with particular reference to sub‐Saharan Africa …

Managing water resources is one of the most pressing challenges of our times-fundamental
to how we feed 2 billion more people in coming decades, eliminate poverty, and reverse …

How important is agricultural growth to poverty reduction? This article first sets out the
theoretical reasons for expecting agricultural growth to reduce poverty. Several plausible …

In most developing countries, the rural labor force is growing rapidly, but rural employment
opportunities are dwindling. This paper brings together empirical evidence on the nonfarm …

This paper provides a micro-level foundation for discussions of land allocation and its
relation to income poverty within the smallholder sectors of Eastern and Southern Africa …

Agricultural technology can help reduce poverty through direct and indirect effects. Direct
effects are gains for the adopters while indirect effects are gains derived from adoption by …

How much extra net income growth can be had in rural areas of Africa by increasing the
spending power of local households? The answer depends on how rural households spend …

The nonfarm work participation decisions of married men and women in rural Northern
Ghana were jointly and separately estimated for married couples through a bivariate probit …

There has long been a broad consensus amongst donors and developing country
governments that agricultural growth will directly benefit the rural poor and also improve the …