The use of mobile phones has increased rapidly in many developing countries, including in rural areas. Besides reducing the costs of communication and improving access to information, mobile phones are an enabling technology for other innovations. One important example are mobile phone based money transfers, which could be very relevant for the rural poor, who are often underserved by the forma...

The economical situation at agricultural industry has been changed rapidly in Korea for the last 40 years. The population in farming area decreased sharply and the labor demand increased dramatically. The portion of the old and women has been increased. The farm size, and farm rural wage have been increased. Those were the driving forces of the mechanization in agricultural industry. The Agricu...

This article joins the debate over the effect of market-driven economic development on women’s work opportunities and household gender inequalities. It assesses women’s opportunities for off-farm employment, the relative contributions of female off-farm workers to household income, and the distribution of power in families whose male members have left for off-farm jobs, leaving women behind in ...

Cropland abandonment has emerged as a prevalent phenomenon in the mountainous areas of China. While there is a general understanding that this new trend is driven by the rising opportunity cost of rural labor, rigorous theoretical and empirical analyses are largely absent. This paper first develops a theoretical model to investigate household decisions on farming scale when off-farm labor marke...

Home gardens have been an integral part of the recent food-based interventions aimed at stimulating changes in dietary patterns and improving nutrition. However, evidence their effects on food security, quality, child anthropometry incomes is limited, particularly among vulnerable populations groups. Using panel data from a sample approximately 1900 households population groups Odisha, India, d...

Rural poverty in India is linked with agricultural earnings, which can be assessed Farm Net Income (FNI). This study identified the parameters significantly affecting FNI for Yavatmal, India, during 2016-17 and 2017-18. The R 2 values computed by Multivariable Linear Regression Analysis explaining are 73% 79% In 2017-18, was influenced household (HH) head education, working population HH, opera...

In many West African countries, large rural multigenerational households farm common household plots as well as allocate individual plots to different family members. Multiple studies have found that women plot managers achieve lower yields than men. This work uses a unique 17-year panel dataset from southern Mali to investigate this gender production differential. The long-span and specificity...

This paper provides an empirical examination of the frequency and determinants of two forms of non-price rationing in rural credit markets in northern Peru. Quantity rationing is the conventional form of non-price rationing whereby a household with positive demand for credit is denied access. Risk rationing, in contrast, occurs when a household voluntarily withdraws from the credit market for f...

Rural households across the world are increasingly turning to off-farm sources of income complement or replace farm income. A better understanding these livelihood adaptations, their consequences, and processes behind them will facilitate more effective rural development policies projects. The objective this research was examine how influences livelihoods, elucidate factors that determine diffe...