Economic transformation and diversification towards off-farm income in rural and urban areas – A global update with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa

Ana Paula De la O Campos, Yeshwas Admasu, Katia Covarrubias, Benjamin Davis and Ana Maria Diaz

No 366848, ESA Working Papers from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Agricultural Development Economics Division (ESA)

Abstract: This working paper is the update of an earlier cross-country study on household income sources using an expanded harmonized dataset. The analysis presented covers a total of 93 surveys representing 41 countries – nearly double that of the previous study – to depict rural and urban households’ livelihood strategies across different levels of economic development. The findings shed light on the relationship between household livelihood activity portfolios and per capita gross domestic product, confirming a picture of multiple livelihood activities across the rural and urban space, at different levels of development. However, we find an emerging divergence between countries from sub-Saharan Africa and those from the rest of the world regarding employment and income generation.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Agricultural Finance; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Security and Poverty; Labor and Human Capital; Land Economics/Use (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 64
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.366848

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