Conservation agriculture is claimed to be a panacea for the problems of poor agricultural
productivity and soil degradation in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It is actively promoted by …

Poor rural and urban households in develo** countries face substantial risks, which they
handle with risk‐management and risk‐co** strategies, including self‐insurance through …

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 …

Longitudinal data on household living standards open the way to a deeper analysis of the
nature and extent of poverty. While a number of studies have exploited this type of data to …

Africa has had slow growth and a massive exodus of capital. In many respects it has been
the most capital-hostile region. We review and interpret the aggregate-level and …

Typologies may be used as tools for dealing with farming system heterogeneity. This is
achieved by classifying farms into groups that have common characteristics, ie farm types …

This survey reviews models of self-reinforcing mechanisms that cause poverty to persist.
Some of them examine market failure in environments where the neoclassical assumptions …

Land degradation is a major challenge to sustainable development and poverty reduction
across the world. This paper estimates the contribution of land degradation to the losses in …

In order for economic specialization to develop, it is important that well-defined property
rights are established and that suspicion and fear of fraud do not pervade transactions. Such …

Weather is a key source of income risk, especially in emerging market economies. This
paper uses a randomized controlled trial involving Indian farmers to study how an innovative …