Rural Livelihoods: Interplay Between Farm Activities, Non-farm Activities and the Resource Base
| dc.creator | Kuiper, Marijke H. | |
| dc.creator | Meijerink, Gerdien W. | |
| dc.creator | Eaton, Derek J.F. | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T15:33:30Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T03:50:58Z | |
| dc.description | A concentration of poor in rural areas has resulted in a research and policy focus on agricultural technologies and (poor) households' impact on soil productivity. But farm households do not live of farming alone, non-farm activities play a principal role even in remote areas. With a unique household-level dataset covering seven regions in Africa and two in Asia we analyze (1) the importance of non-farm income in different geographical zones; (2) the role of geographical factors in determining access to non-farm employment; (3) the role of non-farm income in external input use and soil nitrogen balances. Distinguishing geographical zones based on the distance to urban areas we find the share of non-farm income increasing from 12 percent in the remote areas to 35 percent in peri-urban areas. Geographical location is found to explain a major part of the variation in individual non-farm participation, besides characteristics like education and gender. At household level we find non-farm income not playing a role of significance in explaining external input use, inorganic fertilizer use nor changes in the nitrogen balance. Households thus appear not to invest non-farm income in agriculture. This limits the contribution of non-farm income to reducing widespread soil nutrient depletion witnessed in Africa. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.25442 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/25442/files/cp061064.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/25442 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/540856 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
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| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/25442 | |
| dc.title | Rural Livelihoods: Interplay Between Farm Activities, Non-farm Activities and the Resource Base | |
| dc.type | Text |