Small Farmers in Developing Countries : Some Results of Household Surveys Data Analysis

Modrego, Félix; Charnay, Romain; Jara, Esteban; Contreras, Hugo; Rodríguez, Cristián

Small Farmers in Developing Countries : Some Results of Household Surveys Data Analysis

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World Bank, Washington, DC

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Using data obtained from Living Standards Measurement Surveys of rural households, the socioeconomic trends in rural households is defined for a limited set of countries in the 90's and 2000's. These trends are studied in light of seven categories of rural economies: self-employed agriculture, employer agriculture (land owners), employee agriculture, self-employed not agriculture; employer not agriculture, employee not agriculture, not in the labor force. Relative differences in income, consumption and poverty are documented.