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    Determinants of Expected Poverty Among Rural Households in Nigeria

    "Vulnerability measures are becoming tools for evolving proactive steps to alleviate poverty. Against this backdrop, this study examined the determinants of expected poverty (a measure of vulnerability) among rural households in Nigeria. The mai...

    O. A. Oni

    S. A. Yusuf

    • Expected Poverty
    • Vulnerability
    • Poverty Alleviation Policies
    • Rural Households
    • Poverty
    • Demographic economics
    • Social security
    40 pages

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    Cities and Rural Transformation a Spatial Analysis of Rural Youth Livelihoods in Ghana

    "Urbanization has had a major impact on livelihoods in Ghana and throughout Africa as a whole. However, much research on urbanization has focused on effects occurring within cities, while there is insufficient understanding of its effects on rura...

    Xinshen Diao

    Peixun Fang

    Eduardo Magalhaes

    Stefan Pahl

    Jed Silver

    • Rural Households
    • Youth Employment
    • Livelihoods
    • Urbanization
    • Sustainable urban development
    • Labour market
    40 pages

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    Factors Influencing Sustained Use of Efficient Cook Stoves and Solar Lighting Solutions: A Case Study from Kenya

    Efficient cook stoves have been an important policy focus of international development efforts to address negative health and environmental problems associated with traditional cooking practices. However, major emphasis has been on ensuring init...

    Aschalew Tigabu

    Joanes Atela

    Rebecca Hanlin

    • Rural Households
    • Cook Stoves
    • Sustainable development
    • Energy
    23 pages

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    Integrating Gender Roles, Social Equity and Post Harvest Management Policies to Improve Rural Household's Food Security

    This policy brief describes the current status of policies and programs in Benin and Mozambique, with the aim of identifying potential gender and social sensitive post-harvest initiatives, thereby supporting their transition to a more sustainable ...

    FANRPAN

    • Food Security
    • Gender Imbalances
    • Rural Households
    • Post Harvest Management
    • Agricultural resources
    • Sustainable living
    8 pages

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    Agricultural Productivity and Rural Household Welfare Distribution in Sub-Saharan Africa

    The results of this study indicate that improving agricultural productivity by encouraging productivity enhancing investments amongst smallholders can improve rural welfare and livelihoods. However, while agricultural productivity can improve the ...

    Mulubrhan Amare

    Bekele Shiferaw

    • Agricultural Productivity
    • Rural Households
    • Household Welfare
    • Agricultural resources
    • Poverty
    3 pages

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    Diversify More or Less? Household Resilience and Food Security in Rural Nigeria

    We provide new findings of rural livelihood diversification in Nigeria, using panel data from the Living Standards Measurement Study - Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA). To a large extent, the patterns and the implications of liveliho...

    Sènakpon Fidèle Ange Dedehouanou

    John McPeak

    • Food Security
    • Rural Households
    • Livelihood Diversification
    • Sustainable living
    • Income distribution
    33 pages

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    Cost Benefit Analysis of Climate Change Adaptation Strategies on Crop Production Systems in the Lowveld of Swaziland

    "Challenges faced by smallholder rural subsistence farmers should be one of the key issues in policy and development discussions as they form 70% of the African populations and Swaziland is no exception. They manage large areas of agricultural pro...

    Phindile Shongwe

    Micah M. Masuku

    Absalom M. Manyatsi

    • Cost Benefit
    • Climate Change Adaptation
    • Crop Production
    • Rural Households
    • Climatic changes
    • Agricultural resources
    • Sustainable living
    4 pages

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    Sector of Economic Activity and Poverty in Benin

    This study, based on the theory of labour market segmentation, assesses the participation in the labour market in connection with poverty status. Using crosssectional data from the household standard living condition survey of 2006 and k-means alg...

    Alastaire Sèna Alinsato

    Wilfied Houedokou

    • Employment
    • Living Conditions
    • Rural Households
    • Labour market
    • Poverty
    51 pages

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