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Farm/Rural Households and Community Food Security
(2012-02-16)
Cacao cultivation as a livelihood strategy: contributions to the well‑being of Colombian rural households
(Springer, Nueva York (Estados Unidos), 2021-07)
Cacao cultivation is one of the most important livelihoods for rural households in Colombia, where it is promoted as a substitute for the illegal cultivation of coca. To strengthen Colombian cacao farming, it is important ...
Debt, Poverty and Resource Management in a Rural Smallholder Economy
(Springer, 2016)
This paper develops a model to capture the key features of poverty, credit constraints and resource management faced by poor rural households. We assume that, due to the existence of asymmetric information and moral hazard, ...
The Constraints to Escaping Rural Poverty: An Analysis of the Complementarities of Assets in Developing Countries
(OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, 2011)
Based on Food and Agriculture Organization data for 15 developing countries, we examine household characteristics, asset bundles and income-generating activities of the rural poor. Assets aid in exiting poverty, not ...
ESCAPING THE POVERTY TRAP IN LATIN AMERICA: THE ROLE OF FAMILY FACTORS
(Instituto de Economía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2001)
Gendering and Engendering Capital: Conditional Cash Transfers in indigenous and rural households. Yucatan, Mexico
(Routledge, 2019)
Since theirinception in the 1990s, studies concerning Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs have included analyses of their effects but, most interestingly, havefocused on the relationships they propose within beneficiary ...