Poultry production and rural poverty among small-scale farmers in Mzimba District of Malawi

Maganga Assa

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Abstract: This paper evaluates the role of participating in poultry production on household income and rural poverty in Mzimba district, Malawi. The study utilizes cross-sectional farm level household data collected in 2011. The paper computes income-based poverty measures and investigates their sensitivity to the use of different poverty lines. Robust poverty comparisons across the poultry and non-poultry farmers reveal that poverty is in fact higher for the non-poultry compared to the poultry farmers. Thus, participating in poultry production has a significant positive impact on household income and poverty reduction.

Keywords: FGT; Poverty; Small-scale poultry production; stochastic dominance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-08, Revised 2012-09
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Published in Livestock Research for Rural Development 9.24(2012): pp. 179

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