Coping with drought in Zimbabwe: survey evidence on responses of rural households to risk
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 26, S. 89-110
ISSN: 0305-750X
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In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 26, S. 89-110
ISSN: 0305-750X
In: Policy research working papers 1207
In: Agricultural policies
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In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 32, Heft 10, S. 1669-1696
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 32, Heft 10, S. 1663-1667
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 32, Heft 10, S. 1669-1696
ISSN: 0305-750X
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In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 31, Heft 7, S. 1239-1255
ISSN: 0305-750X
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It is a well-known fact that households in developing countries often undergo weather-related and other shocks that drastically affect incomes. A large and growing literature explores the effectiveness of response to these events. One strand of the literature addresses the strategies that households and governments use to protect against income shocks (Udry 1990; Fafchamps, Udry, and Czukas 1998; Kochar 1999). A second strand looks at the effectiveness of these strategies in reducing fluctuations in consumption. The principal result, summarized in Morduch (1995, 1999a) and Townsend (1995), is that some, but not all, households are able to smooth consumption. Households facing liquidity constraints, in particular, have limited smoothing ability. For these households, income fluctuations lead to a welfare loss. ; PR ; IFPRI1; Gender ; FCND
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In: African affairs: the journal of the Royal African Society, Band 119, Heft 476, S. 311-337
ISSN: 1468-2621
The functioning of markets is premised on the creation of collaborative relationships and networks. Food markets in Zimbabwe are evolving in response to state interventions that aim to restructure the marketplace and the flow of produce. This article explores Mbare Musika, the oldest and largest marketplace in Harare supplying the city with fresh fruit and vegetables. We analyse Mbare Musika from the perspective of the interactions among farmers and retailers, vendors, transporters, intermediaries, officials, and customers, in creating and sustaining a specific enduring market. We use actor narratives to understand the ordering and (re)ordering of people and produce in the context of informalization, shifting polycentric relationships, and market infrastructure to sustain livelihoods anchored on the circulation of large volumes of diverse fresh produce. The market is overtly economic in outlook but, intrinsically, it is a social arena where discourses are continuously reconstructed, reproduced, and expressed through daily interactions. We situate Mbare Musika in past and present sociopolitical processes of transformation in Zimbabwe.
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 31, Heft 7, S. 1239-1255
In: Economic Development and Cultural Change, Band 51, Heft 2, S. 337-357
ISSN: 1539-2988
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 21, Heft 9, S. 1477-1494
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 21, Heft 9, S. 1477
ISSN: 0305-750X
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 32, Heft 10, S. 1697-1709