Agricultural risks, the COVID-19 pandemic, and farm household welfare and diversification strategies in Africa

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Agricultural activities in many African countries are bedevilled by a range of risk factors. Using micro-level household datasets from a range of countries in Africa, we examine the drivers of agricultural risks, while exploring the role of context as well as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on household welfare, with a focus on farm households relative to their non-farm counterparts. We demonstrate that the probability of experiencing risks related to agriculture is significantly influenced by a range of individual- and farm-level/contextual factors, with these effects showing considerable variations across contexts and countries in Africa. We also find that farm households witnessed important reductions in their incomes during the COVID-19 period in Uganda. The study contributes to the design of evidence-based approaches to reducing farmers' vulnerabilities to agricultural risks and pandemic-related shocks.

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISBN: 978-92-9267-251-5
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2022/117

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; General Welfare; Well-Being ; Economywide Country Studies: Africa ; Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment ; Land Use Patterns
• Thema: agricultural risk ; COVID-19 pandemic ; farm households ; welfare ; Africa

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Iddrisu, Abdul Malik ; Karakara, Alhassan Abdul-Wakeel ; Osabuohien, Evans
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (wo): Helsinki
• (wann): 2022

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2022/251-5
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/273915
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ