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The economic lives of smallholder farmers An analysis based on household data from nine countries
Technical study, 2015
Based on an innovative smallholder-specific dataset, this report illustrates the lives of smallholder farmers in nine developing and emerging countries, using economics to analyze data from rural household surveys. It examines different dimensions of smallholders’...
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Country case study, 2015
This paper explores the impact of climate risk on the adoption of risk decreasing practices and other input choices and evaluates their impact on subjective and objective measures
of household welfare (namely net crop income...
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ESA Working Paper 14-10
Working paper, 2014
The definition of family farm varies across countries and contexts. We reviewed 36 definitions and uses of the term “family farm” by academics, government and civil society organisations that describe the characteristics that make family...
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ESA Working Paper 14-02
Working paper, 2014
The agricultural economics literature provides various estimates of the number of farms and small farms in the world. This paper is an effort to provide a more complete and up to date as well as...
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Country case study, 2013
Since social protection and smallholder agricultural interventions often cover the same geographic
space and target the same households, there are opportunities for synergies and complementarities
that strengthen livelihoods of poor rural households.
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Economic growth is necessary but not sufficient to accelerate reduction of hunger and malnutrition
Major report, 2012
The 2012 edition of The State of Food Insecurity in the World focuses on the importance of economic growth in overcoming poverty, hunger and malnutrition. We are pleased to note that many, though not all,...
ESA Working Paper 11-17
Working paper, 2011
This paper investigates the livestock asset positions of rural households and the contribution of livestock to their income in 12 developing countries. It draws on the FAO Rural Income Generating Activities (RIGA) database, which allows...
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ESA Working Paper 11-14
Working paper, 2011
The present paper attempts to identify the groups of households that most likely will face
positive or negative welfare consequences as a result of food price increases. Using data from household surveys and differentiating urban from...
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ESA Working Paper 11-08
Working paper, 2011
This paper considers the impact of gender specific constraints on the production and marketing of cash crops. Cash crop production differs from general agricultural production in that it entails engaging in output markets to make...
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ESA Working Paper 11-07
Working paper, 2011
This paper reviews rural women’s access to financial services, a key factor of successful rural development strategies. Designing appropriate financial products for women to be able to save, borrow and insure is essential to strengthen...
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