Smallholder Income Diversification in Zambia: The Way Out of Poverty?

Arne Bigsten () and Sven Tengstam

No 54490, Food Security Collaborative Working Papers from Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics

Abstract: This paper investigates the relationship between income diversification and income change within Zambian smallholder households, and investigates what the constraints of income diversification are in this group. A panel data set of roughly 7000 smallholder farmer households interviewed in 2001 and 2004 is used. Different combinations of the four main income generating activities – farm income, agricultural wage work, non-agricultural wagework, and own-business income – are analyzed.

Keywords: Farm Management; Food Security and Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 47
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.54490

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