Pro-poor growth has been identified as one of the most promising pathways to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) or any subsequent set of goals aiming to reduce poverty worldwide. Related research has developed a multitude of instruments to measure pro-poor growth using absolute and...

A procedure is developed to examine the ex-post impacts of improved maize varieties on poverty in rural Ethiopia. Yield and cost effects of adoption are estimated econometrically under assumptions of both homogeneous and heterogeneous treatment effects. A backward derivation procedure is...

In the 1990s, prior to its accession to the WTO, China dramatically reduced market distortions in its agriculture. We use panel data of 10,488 households from 1989 to 2000 and ask whether these reforms improved the welfare of rural Chinese households measured by the share of calories from...

This study employs mathematical programming to examine the trade-off between improving biophysical attributes and preserving ecosystem services, using Southern Tanzania as a case study. This study used data primarily collected via household surveys. This study tries to provide insights into...

Landless agricultural laborers and marginal farmers constitute much of India’s poor. As population growth increases and more people enter an expanding rural labor force, either they must eke out a living in the rural sector or add to the growing pressure on the country’s urban areas....

Countries successful in achieving growth and equity throughout their development process could provide continuing gross flow of resources to agriculture in the form of technical, educational, and financial elements combined with proper institutions and policies to increase agricultural...

Além das vantagens econômicas e dos benefícios ambientais, a produção de biodiesel em larga escala será importante instrumento de geração de renda no meio rural, com impacto significativo sobre a agricultura familiar. Uma das maiores motivações para a produção desse combustível...

O objetivo deste trabalho foi identificar as principais atividades agropecuárias e as formas de organização social dos produtores familiares da região de Marília, Estado de São Paulo, no período de 2000 a 2005. Foram coletadas informações junto a técnicos da Casa da Agricultura,...

Este trabalho é uma atualização de artigo anteriormente apresentado onde se analisa o comportamento das ocupações e das fontes de rendas das famílias rurais e agrícolas paranaenses utilizando-se como base Tabulações Especiais elaboradas a partir do processamento dos microdados das...