Search Results - "per capita income"

Vertical coordination in high-value commodities: implications for smallholders by Birthal, Pratap Singh, Joshi, Pramod Kumar, Gulati, Ashok

“…Rising per capita income, urbanization and globalization are changing the consumption basket in the developing countries towards high-value commodities (like fruits & vegetables, milk, meat, poultry, fish, etc.). …”
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Poverty and food insecurity disparities and their causes in the Eastern Indian State of Odisha by Mohapatra, Bidhan K.

“…The study involved 645 households in 4 villages of 2 districts (one developed and one undeveloped) in Odisha, an eastern Indian state. Odisha’s per capita income was taken as the dividing line for the segregation of districts into developed (more than average) and undeveloped (less than average). …”
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The poverty impacts of improved soybean technologies in Malawi by Hirpa Tufa, A., Alene, A., Manda, J., Feleke, S., Assfaw Wossen, T., Akinwale, M.G., Chikoye, David, Manyong, Victor

“…The household head’s education level, household size, cultivated land area, livestock size, and asset ownership are associated with the daily per capita income. The results point to the need for scaling up of improved soybean varieties and agronomic practices for greater impacts on poverty reduction among smallholders in Malawi.…”
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Are agro-clusters pro-poor? Evidence from Ethiopia by Tabe-Ojong, Martin Paul Jr., Dureti, Guyo Godana

“…Using instrumental variable estimators, we establish a positive association between agro-clusters, household income and per capita income. Agro-clusters are also shown to reduce poverty and poverty gaps. …”
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Role of international price and domestic inflation in triggering export restrictions on food commodities by Mamun, Abdullah, Laborde Debucquet, David

“…Among the covariates, agricultural land per capita, commodity share in production and export, weather condition increases the chances of imposing export restrictions. Per capita income, population density, share of agriculture in GDP, urbanization rate, political economy indicators - all have a negative influence on this likelihood.…”
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What has happened to growth in Latin America by Morley, Samuel

“…Growth in the first post-reform decade in Latin America has been disappointing, largely because of a severe slowdown after 1995 in the countries in South America. Per capita income grew at only .9% per year between 1995 and 1999 compared to 2.7% for 1950-80 and 1.5% for the nineties as a whole. …”
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Tobacco cultivation, food production, and nutrition among smallholders in Malawi by Peters, Pauline E., Herrera, M. Guillermo

“…Malawi is one of the poorest countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a per capita income of about US$170 (World Bank 1990). Although Malawi has an enviable record in achieving national food self-sufficiency, it has achieved that at a very low level of the supply-demand balance; the aggregate picture masks widespread food insecurity at the household level. …”
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Local impacts of a global crisis: Food price transmission and poverty impacts in Ghana by Cudjoe, Godsway, Breisinger, Clemens, Diao, Xinshen

“…Different consumption patterns, in which grains account for a larger share of the consumption basket in the north compared to the rest of the country, together with much lower initial per capita income levels, are the main explanations for this regional variation in the price effect.…”
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Effects of recurrent rainfall shocks on poverty and income distribution in rural Ecuador by Llerena Pinto, Maria Cristhina, Mirzabaev, Alisher, Qaim, Matin

“…Panel data regression models with household fixed effects show that rainfall shocks reduce per capita income by 9 % on average. The income losses are larger for poor households, agricultural households, and those involved in the informal sector. …”
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Market-oriented urban and peri-urban dairy systems by Tegegne, Azage, Tadesse, M., Yami, A., Mekasha, Yoseph

“…These urban and peri-urban dairy production systems evolved to satisfy the increasing demand for milk in urban centres as a consequence of increasing urbanisation, rising per capita income and increasing cost of imported milk and milk products. …”
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Climate Resilient Green Economy Strategy: Sector-wise GTP II Implementation Monitoring Checklist by Bayleyegn, Debasu, Ericksen, Polly J., Solomon, Dawit

“…Through Agricultural Development-Led Industrialization (ADLI), the country aims to build an economy with a modern and productive agricultural sector and a strong industrial sector, ultimately increasing per capita income to the level of middle-income countries by 2025. …”
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New insights on efficiency and productivity analysis: Evidence from vegetable-poultry integration in rural Tanzania by Habiyaremye, Naphtal, Tabe-Ojong, Martin P., Ochieng, Justus, Chagamoka, Takemore

“…Exacerbating the situation, poverty in the light of per capita income keeps increasing making it one of the poorest economies in the world. …”
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A bounds analysis of world food futures: Global agriculture through to 2050 by Pardey, Philip G., Beddow, J.M., Hurley, T.M., Beatty, T.K.M., Eidman, V.R.

“…The principal driver of this result is a deceleration in population growth in the decades ahead. Per capita income growth and changing demographics (generally ageing population) have significant but secondary roles in spurring growth in agricultural consumption, as does our projected growth in the use of agricultural feedstocks to meet the growth we envisage in biofuel demand. …”
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Future of agricultural research by Zilberman, David

“…Increased urbanization and urban food demand, as well as increasing per capita income, will lead to greater demand for high-value products, including fruits, vegetables, and animal-sourced foods (Chapters 9 and 10). …”
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Blue food demand across geographic and temporal scales by Naylor, Rosamond L., Kishore, Avinash, Sumaila, U. Rashid, Issifu, Ibrahim, Hunter, Blaire P., Belton, Ben, Bush, Simon R.

“…Our results show a weak cross-sectional relationship between per capita income and consumption globally when using an aggregate fish metric. …”
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Supermarket contracts and smallholder farmers: Implications for income and multidimensional poverty by Ogutu, Sylvester O., Ochieng, Dennis O., Qaim, Matin

“…On average, supermarket contracts increase per capita income in smallholder farm households by 60\%. …”
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Anchoring bias in recall data: Evidence from Central America by Godlonton, Susan, Hernandez, Manuel A., Murphy, Mike

“…We find strong evidence of sizable anchoring bias in self-reported retrospective indicators for both objective measures (household and per capita income, wages, and hours spent on the household’s main activity) and subjective measures (reports of happiness, health, stress, and well-being). …”
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Public investment and poverty reduction in Tanzania: evidence from household survey data by Fan, Shenggen, Nyange, David, Rao, Neetha

“…As in the Asian studies, the growth effects (measured as per capita income) of investments in agricultural research, roads, and education are found to be large. …”
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A Partial Equilibrium Model for Future Outlooks on Major Cereals in India by Parappurathu, Shinoj, Kumar, Anjani, Kumar, Shiv, Jain, Rajni

“…Though growth in demand would be sufficiently high due to growing per capita income, population and urbanisation; supply would keep pace owing to the emergence of new areas contributing towards incremental production. …”
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Agrifood value chain employment and compensation shift with structural transformation by Yi, Jing, Jiang, Shiyun, Tran, Dianna, Gόmez, Miguel I., Canning, Patrick, Bloem, Jeffrey R., Barrett, Christopher B.

“…Employment shifts are strongly associated with changes in national per capita income, but not with agricultural total factor productivity growth.…”
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