Assessing the impact of improved agricultural technologies on household income in rural Mozambique

Food Policy

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 378-390

  Cunguara, Benedito ^a   Darnhofer, Ika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Impact assessment; Poverty; Southern Africa

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL POLICY; AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; ECONOMETRICS; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; POVERTY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; SUBSISTENCE AGRICULTURE;

MOZAMBIQUE;

ANIMALIA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 79955466456     PISSN: 03069192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2011.03.002     Document Type: Article

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