Abstract:
This study used two-year partial panel household surveys 2008-2011, to assess household
income and poverty trends and their respective drivers, specifically to determining to what extent
landholdings have influenced these changes in rural Northern-Central Mozambique. The study
concludes that: i) No significant income change in total net household income, poverty level, and
landholdings has been observed between the two survey years and ii) Landholdings have
significant income effect on income but poverty, suggesting that the income gain resulting from
the observed landholdings is not enough to generate sufficient income transition above the
poverty line, and iii) welfare was found to have infrastructural, demographic, technological
dimensions, the policy implications from this study include:1) developing and promoting
agricultural technologies, rural financial services and microcredit, risk coping strategies through
establishment development of drought resistant crop varieties to acelerate land expansion, 2)
facilitating access to input and output markets through improving and expanding infrastructures,
3) promoting small and medium enterprises with vocational training programs in employable
skills, and 4) providing public services (e.g. education and employment) and investing in
physical infrastructures (roads and transports). |
