Frequent droughts in sub-Saharan Africa imply water stress for rainfed agriculture and,
ultimately, food insecurity, underlining the region's vulnerability to climate change. Yet, in the …

This paper examines the factors that influence rural household decisions to clear forestland.
We use a large dataset comprising 7172 households from 24 developing countries. Twenty …

The link between institutional and market failures, rural poverty and environmental
degradation suggests a 'win-win'policy intervention: relax local 'constraints' and achieve …

We draw a theoretical model to demonstrate that small farms achieve lower total factor
productivity (TFP) compared with large farms, even though the yield of small farms may be …

Agricultural markets remain major issue downgrading root and tuber crop farmers who form
the mainstream of the agricultural producers in Malawi. Recent evidence however reveals …

Using data from Malaw1, this paper exanines factors that influence a household's likelihood
of facing credii constraints, We find that wealthler households are less likely to report credit …

Dowries have been modeled as pre-mortem bequests to daughters or as groom-prices paid
to in-laws. These two classes of models yield mutually exclusive predictions, but empirical …

Many factors besides profit maximization, such as nonmarket ecological and social benefits,
influence smallholder households to adopt a specific agricultural production system or sell in …

Ferraro and Simpson (2002) argue that when markets are competitive, payments for
environmental services (PES) are more cost-effective in achieving environmental goals than …

A long history of empirical research has focused on testing whether and when household
consumption and production decisions are separable. If markets were perfect, household …