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HETEROGENEOUS CONSTRAINTS, INCENTIVES AND INCOME DIVERSIFICATION STRATEGIES IN RURAL AFRICA [PDF]
A burgeoning recent literature emphasizes "livelihood" diversification among smallholder populations (Chambers and Conway 1992, Davies 1993, Ellis 1998, Bryceson 1999, Ellis 2000, Little et al. 2001).
Barrett, Christopher B. +3 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli +2 more
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Folia Oeconomica Stetinensia, 2018 Dynamics in economic trend and banks’ creditors’ expectation have directed banks to search the innovative means of income generation. It is with this view that this study examines the relationship between the income diversification and financial ...
Olarewaju Odunayo Magret
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Boda-bodas rule: Non-agricultural activities and their inequality implications in Western Kenya [PDF]
Diversification into non-agricultural activities in rural areas can be broadly classified as either survival-led or opportunity-led. The existence of these two types of non-agricultural activities implies a U-shaped relationship between the share of ...
Lay, Jann +2 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The cocoa‐chocolate value chain faces significant environmental and social challenges, driving firms to adopt sustainability strategies ranging from individual practices to third‐party certifications. This study investigates the factors associated with these strategies by analyzing 304 cocoa‐chocolate companies using firm‐level data from the ...
Stella Marschner +3 more
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Cogent Business & ManagementIn recent years, the necessity of studying efficiency and income diversification in the banking sector is marked by various factors such as, increasing financial institutions uncertainties and rapid technological changes.
Solomon Terfasa Dinka +1 more
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IRRIGATION AND POTENTIAL DIVERSIFICATION BENEFITS IN HUMID CLIMATES [PDF]
Income variability and means for managing risk continue to receive much attention in farm management research. In this paper, irrigation is presented as a risk-management strategy that offers potential diversification benefits.
Lavergne, David R. +2 more
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Heterogeneous Returns to Income Diversification
, 2016 This paper investigates the impact of income diversification on farming households' welfare in Nigeria on two rounds of the Nigeria General Household Survey-Panel, namely the 2010/2011 and 2012/2013. The study finds that income diversification is the norm in Nigeria, with about 60 percent of ...
Bertoni, Eleonora +3 more
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Income diversification and bank performance: The Jordanian case
Pressacademia, 2019 Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine Jordanian banks in terms of the impact of income diversification on their performance (profitability and net interest margin). Methodology - Based on the period 2009-2017 and all thirteen Jordanian commercial banks, the econometric models are estimated using the Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR ...
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT EU member states have exhibited varying rates of apple production growth. Technical efficiency (TE) estimation is suitable for identifying best‐practice farm performance. This study examined whether the development of the apple sector in Germany, Italy, and Poland was influenced by production efficiency, access to technology, as well as ...
Anika Muder, Jakub Staniszewski
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