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Rural Nonfarm Employment and Incomes in Latin America: Overview and Policy Implications
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In this article, a review of evidence provided some surprising departures from traditional images of non-farm activities of Latin American rural households and showed that rural nonfarm employment (RNFE) and incomes averaged 40% of rural incomes.About:
This article is published in World Development.The article was published on 2001-03-01. It has received 615 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Nonfarm payrolls & Household income.read more
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Livelihoods and rural poverty reduction in Uganda
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe research linking micro-level outcomes to macro-level strategies with respect to rural poverty reduction in Kenya, set against a background in which a new government, elected at the end of 2002, is wrestling with how to break away decisively from previously unfavourable norms in the conduct of public life.
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Urbanization and its implications for food and farming.
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The rural non-farm economy: prospects for growth and poverty reduction
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that for the rural poor to benefit from rural non-farm growth, policy makers must stimulate buoyant rural economies, with robust nonfarm income growth, not simply low-productivity employment.
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Crisis or adaptation? Migration and climate change in a context of high mobility
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The rural non-farm sector: issues and evidence for developing countries
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the literature on the conceptual and empirical underpinnings of this more recent perspective, focussing on the experience in developing countries, pointing to evidence that in many countries the sector is expanding rather than declining.
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Using Evidence of Household Income Diversification to Inform Study of the Rural Nonfarm Labor Market in Africa
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of evidence provides some surprising departures from traditional images of non-farm activities of rural households, and the most worrying finding was the poor distribution of nonfarm earnings in rural areas, despite the importance of these earnings to food security and farm investments.
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Chapter 8 The agricultural transformation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define the agricultural transformation through at least four phases that are roughly definable: the first phase is when agricultural productivity per worker rises, which in the second phase can be tapped directly, through taxation and factor flows, or indirectly, through government intervention into the rural-urban terms of trade.
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Income Strategies Among Rural Households in Mexico: The Role of Off-farm Activities
TL;DR: The authors analyzes the determinants of access to off-farm sources of income across households and finds that education plays a major role in accessing better remunerated non-agricultural employment.
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The Determinants of Nonfarm Income Diversification in Rural Peru
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that there has been substantial growth over the past decade in household employment outside of own-farming, and that 51% of the net income of rural households comes from these off-farm activities, and thus they certainly cannot be considered as “marginal.