The crop sector in Burkina Faso has been facing recurrent droughts since 1970. This study analyzes the impacts of and adaptation options such as use irrigation capacity development methods, integrated soil management drought-tolerant varieties on sector. Indeed, we focus consequences agricultural economic growth employment gender dimension household poverty. Using a gendered dynamic computable ...

Background: Achievement of food security has become one of the major challenges of most developing countries, including Zimbabwe. This study was designed to investigate the effect of agricultural commercialization on household food security. Methods: This study used cross-sectional data for the 2017/18 farming season collected from 165 smallholder farmer households in Zhombe north rural distric...

This paper examines implications drawn from labor supply literature for the design of a transfer program for female-headed families when the youngest child turns six years old. It is found that if the average level of support to households remains cons tant, a "safety-net" view of the system would lead to raising the tax rate dramatically while only moderately increasing the guarantee. In contr...

This study determines the nature of village economics in the town of Biharamulo, Tanzania, and in four surrounding villages. This study also identifies the links between the villages and the town and the extent of differences between village households. Town population in 1993 was 20,000 persons, or 1020 households, of which 29.4% were female-headed. Only 7.1% of village households were head...

A woman is the companion of man gifted with equal mental capacities. She has right to participate in minutest details activities man, and she same freedom liberty as he. By sheer force a vicious custom, even most ignorant worthless men have been enjoying superiority over women which they do not deserve ought have, “Women hold up half sky – Chinese proverb long more aspiration than fact. In deve...

EPTD Discussion Papers contain preliminary material and research results, and are circulated prior to a full peer review in order to stimulate discussion and critical comment. It is expected that most Discussion Papers will eventually be published in some other form, and t hat their content may also be revised. ABSTRACT This study analyzes how market imperfections affect land productivity in a ...

Abstract Standard welfare comparisons between female-headed households (FHHs) and male-headed (MHHs) have largely ignored two confounding factors: marital status (affecting access to assets markets) heterogeneity in household demographics (with bearing on economies of scale consumption). Both influence are correlated with sex headship. As judged by the usual per capita measures, FHHs lower pove...

This paper aims at examining the influence of households’ demographic characteristics on their savings behavior in East African region. The findings show that nearly people all gender and age category Africa practice life cycle model behavior. It is concluded from analysis preference motive differs one country to another. However, it shown education highly ranked countries as most preferred wit...