Small Farmers in Developing Countries : Some Results of Household Surveys Data Analysis

Using data obtained from Living Standards Measurement Surveys of rural households, the socioeconomic trends in rural households is defined for a limited set of countries in the 90's and 2000's. These trends are studied in light of seven categories of rural economies: self-employed agricult...

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Main Authors: Modrego, Félix, Charnay, Romain, Jara, Esteban, Contreras, Hugo, Rodríguez, Cristián
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9205
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Summary:Using data obtained from Living Standards Measurement Surveys of rural households, the socioeconomic trends in rural households is defined for a limited set of countries in the 90's and 2000's. These trends are studied in light of seven categories of rural economies: self-employed agriculture, employer agriculture (land owners), employee agriculture, self-employed not agriculture; employer not agriculture, employee not agriculture, not in the labor force. Relative differences in income, consumption and poverty are documented.