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Growth and inequality at the micro scale: an empirical analysis of farm incomes within smallholder irrigation systems in Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Mozambique

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/11655/
https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2020.1811959
doi:10.1080/07900627.2020.1811959
 
Title Growth and inequality at the micro scale: an empirical analysis of farm incomes within smallholder irrigation systems in Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Mozambique
 
Creator Manero, A
Bjornlund, H
Wheeler, S
Zuo, A
Mdemu, M
Van Rooyen, A
Chilundo, M
 
Subject Smallholder Agriculture
Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
Sub-Saharan Africa
 
Description The mechanisms linking growth and inequality are critical for poverty reduction, yet they remain poorly understood at the micro level, as current knowledge is dominated by country-wide studies. This article
evaluates farm income growth and changes in inequality among five smallholder irrigation communities in Mozambique, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Over the period of study, the poorest sections of the population became better-off. Over an income growth spell, at low levels of growth, relative inequality increases, but it starts to drop as
growth rises beyond a certain rate. Thus, careful design is required to ensure that pro-growth strategies also become inequality-reducing.
 
Publisher Routledge
 
Date 2020-09
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11655/1/Growth%20and%20inequality%20at%20the%20micro%20scale%20an%20empirical%20analysis%20of%20farm%20incomes%20within%20smallholder%20irrigation%20systems%20in%20Zimbabwe%20Tanzania%20and.pdf
Manero, A and Bjornlund, H and Wheeler, S and Zuo, A and Mdemu, M and Van Rooyen, A and Chilundo, M (2020) Growth and inequality at the micro scale: an empirical analysis of farm incomes within smallholder irrigation systems in Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Mozambique. International Journal of Water Resources Development (TSI), 36 (sup1). S224-S245. ISSN 0790-0627