Behavioral and Material Determinants of Production Relations in Land-Abundant Tropical Agriculture
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...The absence of these markets is related to the historical abundance of land (Binswanger and McIntire, 1987)....
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...Binswanger and McIntire (1987) and Collier (1983) argue that moral hazard has inhibited the development of rural labor markets in much of Africa....
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...Other studies also suggested imperfect risk-sharing or consumption smoothing (Chaudhuri and Paxson 1994; Deaton 1991, 1992, 1997; Morduch 2002; Paxson 1993). The experiences during the famines in the Horn of Africa in the mid-1980s also illustrate the limitations of these coping strategies. Despite complex coping strategies, as documented by Rahmato (1991), the effects of the famines were severe....
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...8 common strategy to cope with income fluctuations in many rural areas (Binswanger and McIntire 1987, Davies 1996)....
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...For example, buying and selling cattle is generally recognized as a common strategy for coping with income fluctuations in many rural areas (Binswanger and McIntire 1987; Davies 1996). But a large proportion of households often do not own livestock. Dercon (1998) finds that only half the households in a sample in western Tanzania own cattle, even though cattle are important in the farming system and the culture....
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...Under semi-arid conditions with few investment opportunities and consequent low population density, agriculture will take the form of autarky (production for own consumption) without a market for permanent labour (Binswanger and McIntire, 1987)....
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...Young adults will only be able to break away from their vertically extended households once they have accumulated sufficient capital for (1) a wage fund (i....
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...We define two forms of extension: (1) a vertically extended household, composed of nuclear units of succeeding generations, and (2) a horizontally extended household, composed of nuclear units of sib-...
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...The absence of a sales value for land under low population density has several profound implications: (1) As no major productive asset exists with high collateral value, credit supply is sharply limited from...
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...growth has eight principal effects: (1) it reduces the fallow period; (2) it increases investment in land; (3) it encourages the shift from hand hoe cultivation to animal traction; (4) it encourages soil fertility maintenance via manuring; (5) it reduces the average cost of infrastructure; (6) it permits more specialization in production activities; (7) it induces a change from general to specific land rights; and (8) it reduces the per capita availability of common property resources (forest, bush and/or grass fallows, communal pastures)....
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...Widespread use of hired labor in the land-abundant tropics (LAT) occurs primarily in two circumstances: (1) temporary migrants can be hired from a nearby agroclimatic region with a different sowing period, or (2) annual migrants can be hired from a poorer agroclimatic region....
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