This study assesses the end use impacts of migrant remittances to Nigerian households.
It is now ten years since the Economist newspaper declared Africa to be “the hopeless continent”.
Le présent travail a pour objectif d’identifier les déterminants de la diversification des sources de revenus des exploitations dans les villages étudiés.
Les mil et sorgho sont les cultures les plus importantes au Niger. Elles occupent plus de 80%
des superficies cultivées, comptent pour 5.154.214 tonnes de la production des céréales en
This paper reports on findings that show household poverty declines across all the geopolitical zones as a result of remittance inflows.
The final report of a two-year study examines the impact of remittances from migrants in Ghana, Ivory Coast and Nigeria on poverty reduction and economic growth.
Tools are needed that can enable development practitioners, researchers and vulnerable populations to validate and integrate adaptation options.
Livelihood vulnerability is a major characteristic of life in semi-arid areas of sub-Saharan Africa such as the Sahel.
Both the social science literature and policymakers tend to take for granted that poverty reduction, risk mitigation and democratization are mutually reinforcing.
Poverty and land degradation are severe and interrelated problems in the Sahel. Land degradation reduces current agricultural productivity and is a form of "dissaving" natural capital that will affect future production and income.