Tenure Insecurity, Climate Variability and Renting out Decisions among Female Small-Holder Farmers in Ethiopia

Tenure Insecurity, Climate Variability and Renting out Decisions among Female Small-Holder Farmers in Ethiopia

Land tenure arrangements in Africa are generally skewed in favour of males. Compared to males, female plot owners face complex sets of constraints and systemic high tenure insecurity which culminate in low yields. In order to obtain better returns, some females rent their plots to males, but risk losing the plots to their tenants. A model has been constructed to explain renting-out decisions of...

WIDER Working Paper 2014/140 Tenure insecurity, climate variability, and renting-out decisions among female small-holder farmers in Ethiopia

Analyses of Labour Productivity among Small-Holder Cassava Farmers for Food Security and Empowerment in Central Madagascar

Labour productivity affects food security, but quantifying this relationship has been scarce with respect to empirical literature. The Central Madagascar dataset explores the influence of labour productivity and related variables on the food security status of cassava farmers. Drawing on both theory and empirical evidence, this paper argues that fundamental effects of links between labour produ...

Impact of Climate Variability on Cool Weather Crop Yield in Ethiopia

The research examined effect of climate variability on yield of the two dominant cool weather cereals (wheat and barley) in central highland and Arssi grain plough farming systems of Ethiopia using eight round unbalanced panel data (1994-2014). The stochastic frontier model result revealed that production inputs for producing wheat and barley in the two farming system had significant effect. Cr...

Analysis of Crop Enterprise Combination among Small Holder Farmers in Delta North Agricultural Zone, Delta State, Nigeria

This study on analysis of crop enterprise combination among small holder farmers was conducted in Delta North Agricultural Zone, Delta State, Nigeria. The study covered fifty farmers randomly selected from two villages randomly selected from five Local Government Areas in the study area. Frequencies, means, percentages and Net Profit Margin analysis was employed in analyzing the data obtained. ...