Determinants of off-farm participation decision of farm households in Ethiopia

Beyene, Abebe D.

doi:10.1080/03031853.2008.9523794

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“…Female-headed households are more likely to participate in off-farm activities than the male-headed counterparts because female-headed families engage in off-farm activities to offset their relative lower farm income compared to male-headed ones. However, this is against the result found by Beyene (2008).…”

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confidence: 57%

“…Therefore, the results of this study adds to the existing literature (e.g., Abate et al 2016;Barrett et al 2001;Beyene 2008;Feng et al 2010) through identifying the factors affecting the participation in off-farm activities. As the study evaluates the impact of participation in off-farm activities on the TE of maize producers, the study indicates the relationship between off-farm and on-farm activities and indicates whether there exists trade-off or complementarity between the two incomegenerating activities.…”

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Impact of off-farm activities on technical efficiency: evidence from maize producers of eastern Ethiopia

Ahmed

Melesse

2018

Agric Econ

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This article analyzes the impact of participation in off-farm activities on technical efficiency of maize production in eastern Ethiopia. We combined propensity score matching with a stochastic production frontier model that corrects sample selection bias resulting from unobserved factors that potentially affect both households' decision to participate in off-farm activities and technical efficiency scores that most previous studies do not account for. The probit model results indicate that sex of the household head, literacy of the spouse, agricultural cooperative membership, family size, and access to market information had significant effect on farmers' participation in off-farm activities. In the meantime, it was found that farmers who participated in off-farm activities have a significant technical efficiency gain compared with their non-participant counterparts.

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Impact of off-farm activities on technical efficiency: evidence from maize producers of eastern Ethiopia

Ahmed

Melesse

2018

Agric Econ

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“…The inclusive causal relationship between livelihood strategies and family structure has been described in many studies. For instance, Beyene (2008) indicated that a farm household in Ethiopia with a large number of dependents was less likely to participate in off-farm work [37].…”

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Multilevel Modeling of Rural Livelihood Strategies from Peasant to Village Level in Henan Province, China

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Abstract:With the rapid development of China's economy, Chinese peasants now have a growing number of livelihood choices. Rural livelihood strategies are primarily a matter of choice, while the characteristics of the household and village may affect the decision-making process. However, until now, there has been a lack of empirical studies that have been carried out for the identification of the multi-level determinants of rural livelihood strategies. To fill this gap, this paper applies multi-level modeling approach to model rural livelihood strategies in Henan Province, China. The results show that rural livelihood strategies have insignificant between-group variability at the household level, and significant between-group variability at the village level, with the variance at the peasant level accounting for the largest proportion of the total variance. Younger peasants who are male and have a higher education level are more likely to engage in only off-farm work, while peasants with the opposite characteristics are more likely to engage in only on-farm work. Pluriactive peasants integrate the characteristics of the other two groups, and generally live closer to urban areas than the others. In order to reduce rural income inequality and sustain agricultural production, the Chinese government should design effective policies to make farming an appealing livelihood choice, particularly for the young generation.

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“…Studies by Kassie et al (2017), Atamanova and Van den Berg (2012), Beyene, (2008) and Niboye, (2003 observed that, lack of land for farming increases the demand for livelihoods diversification outside agriculture. In fact, people are prompted to consider available options in the face of population pressure whereby non-farm activities take precedence over farming as the basis of rural household livelihoods.…”

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Survival strategies and livelihood diversification of Ileje Migrants in Mbozi District, Southern Tanzania

Christopher¹,

Helena²

2018

J. Afr. Stud. Dev

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This paper attempts to examine survival strategies and livelihood diversification of migrants in Mbozi district, southern Tanzania. A total of 551 heads of households were involved in this study. The study used both quantitative and qualitative techniques in collecting and analysing data where household questionnaire, in-depth interviews, field observations, focus group discussions and documentary review were used as data gathering techniques. Descriptive statistics and content analysis have been used as data analysis methods. The study results indicate that, Ileje migrants adopted a number of survival strategies such as intensification of non-traditional cash crops such as maize, rice, millet and bananas, out-migration, establishment of petty businesses in major trading centres and involvement in casual labour. The study concludes that the adopted survival strategies were seen to be useful in improving the livelihoods of migrants in the place of destination. However, none of the strategy deemed to be sustainable; rather migrants used them interchangeably. It is recommended to provide support, particularly existence of reliable markets for agricultural products, provision of loans with low interest rates and provision of training on business skills in order to help them strengthen their small business and agriculture that seems to act as their major survival strategy.

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Determinants of off-farm participation decision of farm households in Ethiopia

Cited by 108 publications

References 8 publications

Impact of off-farm activities on technical efficiency: evidence from maize producers of eastern Ethiopia

Impact of off-farm activities on technical efficiency: evidence from maize producers of eastern Ethiopia

Multilevel Modeling of Rural Livelihood Strategies from Peasant to Village Level in Henan Province, China

Survival strategies and livelihood diversification of Ileje Migrants in Mbozi District, Southern Tanzania

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