Highly erratic rainfall patterns in northern Benin complicate the ability of rural farmers to engage in subsistence agriculture. This research explores gender-specific responses to climate variability in the context of agrarian Benin through a household survey (n = 260) and an experimental gaming exercise among a subset of the survey respondents. Although men and women from the sample populatio...

This paper examines the impact of a property rights reform in rural China that allowed farmers to lease out their land. We find the reform led to increases in land rental activity in rural households. Consistent with a model of transaction costs in land markets, our results indicate that the formalization of leasing rights resulted in a redistribution of land toward more productive farmers. Con...

This paper examines the impacts of access to extension services and cooperative membership on technology adoption, asset ownership and poverty using household-level data from rural Nigeria. Using different matching techniques and endogenous switching regression approach, we find that both extension access and cooperative membership have a positive and statistically significant effect on technol...

The study evaluated the effect of IFAD credit supply on rural farmers in Rivers State. Data for the study were collected using a structured questionnaire administered to 90 farmer’s beneficiaries using a multi-stage sampling technique. The regression result shows that semi-log function gave the best fit with the highest value of coefficient of multiple determination (R 2 ) of 0.8758 and seven e...

introduction the most important subject in villager's researches is survey of household's incomes. most of iran villagers are farmers and they live with money of selling agriculture outputs. then every event that damages their outputs, can cause villagers poor. in this paper, we introduce a model for studying the effects of agriculture outputs improvement on poverty in villages. for e...

This paper analyses the status of rural informatization of China from different perspectives, including China’s development timeline, info-platform, resources, geography, and income; and puts forward some recommendations of development as follows: (1) Strengthening government promotion and infrastructure construction. (2) Increasing optimism and confidence of farmers. (3) Providing training and...

The rural finance of China is still weak in the Chinese financial system. Without the support of the capital factor, the new rural construction of socialism could not be realized, but the investment of the capital factor and the enhancement of the humanistic morality must be based on the good credit information resource. The rural financial departments should fully support the construction of t...