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| Clay, Daniel C.; Byiringiro, Fidele Usabuwera; Kangasniemi, Jaakko; Reardon, Thomas; Sibomana, Bosco; Uwamariya, Laurence; Tardif-Douglin, David. |
| The horror of genocide and civil war have turned the world's attention to Rwanda over the last year. But before and beyond that conflict, there was hunger and the slow grinding poverty of small holder agriculture meeting with severe land scarcity and degradation. This report is about reversing the spiraling decline of the land and the economy in rural Rwanda. Three things conspire to accelerate this decline: unsustainable land use practices, insufficient non-farm employment, and rapid population growth. We focus on the forces behind productivity decline in Rwandan agriculture. This report examines how erosion, organic input use, soil conservation investments, use of fertilizer and lime, and land use strategies affect productivity. We then examine what... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty; Land Economics/Use; Productivity Analysis; Downloads July 2008-July 2009: 54. |
| Ano: 1995 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54054 |
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| Byiringiro, Fidele Usabuwera. |
| Despite its importance in agricultural development, the oft-observed inverse relationship between farm size and land productivity in developing countries has received very limited attention in Africa. This work tries to fill the gap by analyzing the relationship between farm-size and productivity in Rwanda. Our results confirm the existence of an inverse relationship between farm-size and land productivity. Smaller farms have a lower opportunity cost of labor and a higher shadow price of land compared to larger farms. These disparities are the results of constraints faced by smaller farms (a) to access land, and (b) to access labor market opportunities. The observed relationship is affected by land quality proxied by erosion (average annual soil loss),... |
| Tipo: Thesis or Dissertation |
Palavras-chave: Land Economics/Use; Productivity Analysis. |
| Ano: 1995 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/11215 |
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