.Our objective in this paper is to test the effects of maize market participation on household income, poverty status, and income …, participation in the maize market has a significant impact on household income and poverty, with the magnitude of impact estimates …High poverty rate persists in rural Kenya, where farming households continue to depend on agriculture for food and …

poverty, and relative deprivation among smallholder maize growers in Zambia. The analysis contributes to the literature by …We test the hypotheses that subsidies on hybrid seed change maize production, total household income, the severity of … social benefit-cost ratios when benefits are measured in terms of household income, although magnitudes are sensitive to seed …

president. Rather, voters rewarded the incumbent for reductions in unemployment, poverty, and income inequality. …Agricultural input subsidies often have implicit or explicit political economy objectives. Using panel data from Zambia …

higher levels of poverty. …

higher levels of poverty. …

has shown that smallholder farmers can benefit from supplying supermarkets in terms of higher productivity and income …. Furthermore, income and the share of land under vegetables have positive impacts, while male control of revenues has negative …

effects of fertilizer subsidies on retail maize prices in Malawi and Zambia using market or district-level panel data covering … maize prices by 1.2% to 1.6% on average. In Zambia, roughly doubling the scale of the country’s subsidy program (i … fertilizer subsidy programs in Malawi and Zambia have had a minimal effect on reducing retail maize prices. …