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

Jason Snyder, Thomas Jayne (), Nicole Mason and Paul Samboko

No 303620, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research Briefs from Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security (FSP)

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Security and Poverty; International Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 4
Date: 2019-12-20
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.303620

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