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Decent rural employment in different farming systems in Sub-Saharan Africa

Year of publication 2016

Pages 40 p.

Author Lena Schickramm; Elisenda Estruch; Johannes Sauer; Getachew Abate-Kassa; Habtamu Y. Ayenew; Peter Wobst

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (series)

ISBN 978-92-5-109294-1

Series title Rural Transformations Technical Paper Series

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This paper analyses how the relationship between decent rural employment and agricultural productivity vary across production systems. The focus is on sub-Saharan Africa, taking Ethiopia and Tanzania as case studies. A latent class stochastic frontier approach is applied to identify different production systems and technologies for a sample of farms in the two countries. Subsequently, we estimate the efficiency of production for these systems and investigate in how far decent rural employment indicators explain different levels of efficiencies across different latent classes.

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