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Agricultural Productivity and Rural Household Incomes: Micro-level Evidence from Zambia

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  • Jason Snyder
  • Thomas Jayne
  • Nicole Mason
  • Paul Samboko

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Key Findings -Changes in district level crop productivity among smallholder farmers have strong and positive lagged multi-year effects on the own-farm incomes of rural households in that district. -This impact is especially true for productivity changes among (a) the highest productivity farms in each district, and (b) smallholder farms cultivating >2 hectares. -There is also some evidence of a similar effect on total income, however this effect is not as robust. -Overall, the least robust set of results are between district-level crop productivity and off-farm household incomes, suggesting that some of the recent critiques of the small farm-led multiplier effect hypothesis mentioned earlier for the African context may be valid. -However, we do find tentative evidence (interpreted with caution due to their lack of significance in the robustness checks) that smaller farm productivity (<2 hectares) indirectly raises off-farm incomes.

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  • Jason Snyder & Thomas Jayne & Nicole Mason & Paul Samboko, 2019. "Agricultural Productivity and Rural Household Incomes: Micro-level Evidence from Zambia," Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research Briefs 303620, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security (FSP).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:miffpb:303620
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.303620
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    1. Melkani, Aakanksha & Mason, Nicole & Mather, David & Chisanga, Brian & Jayne, Thom, 2021. "Smallholder Market Participation and Choice of Marketing Channel in the Presence of Liquidity Constraints: Evidence from Zambian Maize Markets," 2021 Conference, August 17-31, 2021, Virtual 315273, International Association of Agricultural Economists.

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    Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Security and Poverty; International Development;
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