Rural Off-Farm Employment and its Effects on Adoption of Labor Intensive Soil Conserving Measures in Tanzania
©2006
Thesis
XVI,
140 Pages
Series:
Development Economics and Policy, Volume 54
Summary
This study analyzes two related aspects: households’ participation in off-farm employment as a livelihood strategy and the effects of participation in off-farm employment on households’ adoption of labor intensive soil conserving technologies. Several factors are significant but spatial econometric analysis reveals that model parameters vary substantially across space. In addition, households supplying labor off-farm are generally associated with reduced adoption of terraces, hedgerows and cut-offs. The negative impact of supplying labor off-farm can be moderately cushioned when households also hire labor to work on the construction or maintenance of soil conserving structures. However, it is shown that hired labor is not a perfect substitute for households’ own labor and does not fully off-set the effect of a household’s off-farm labor supply.
Details
- Pages
- XVI, 140
- Publication Year
- 2006
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9783631546529
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Beschäftigungspolitik Tansania Ländlicher Haushalt Beschäftigungsstruktur Landwirtschaft Agrarökonomie
- Published
- Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2006. XVI, 140 pp., 13 fig., 14 tables
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