David L Tschirley
Biographic Data
| ID | 2425563 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David L Tschirley |
| GIVEN NAMES | David L |
| FAMILY NAME | Tschirley |
| SIGNATURE | TSCHIRLEY D L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
How Institutions Mediate the Impact of Cash Cropping on Food Crop Intensification
Exploring the Logic Behind Southern Africa’s Food Crises
Smallholder agriculture, wage labour and rural poverty alleviation in land-abundant areas of Africa
This paper challenges the conclusions of earlier writers regarding the roles of smallholder agriculture, commercial agriculture and wage labour in rural poverty alleviation in Mozambique. We review literature from across Sub-Saharan Africa and use recently collected household level data sets to place Mozambique within this literature. Results show that, as in the rest of SSA, wage labour earnings are concentrated among the best-off rural smallhol…
Food security strategies under extremely adverse conditions
Peasant Response to Price Incentives in Tanzania
The peasants in the third world was for a long time assumed to be the opposite to the "economic man". The peasants, so the argument went, were irrational and their behaviour was determined by traditions, not by economic incentives. Some important contributions to economic theory have questioned this assumption. Now the issue is not whether peasants respond to economic incentives, but how. This study is a survey of the theoretical and empirical ex…
Food security strategies under extremely adverse conditions
Exploring the Logic Behind Southern Africa’s Food Crises
How Institutions Mediate the Impact of Cash Cropping on Food Crop Intensification
Smallholder agriculture, wage labour and rural poverty alleviation in land-abundant areas of Africa
This paper challenges the conclusions of earlier writers regarding the roles of smallholder agriculture, commercial agriculture and wage labour in rural poverty alleviation in Mozambique. We review literature from across Sub-Saharan Africa and use recently collected household level data sets to place Mozambique within this literature. Results show that, as in the rest of SSA, wage labour earnings are concentrated among the best-off rural smallhol…
Peasant Response to Price Incentives in Tanzania
The peasants in the third world was for a long time assumed to be the opposite to the "economic man". The peasants, so the argument went, were irrational and their behaviour was determined by traditions, not by economic incentives. Some important contributions to economic theory have questioned this assumption. Now the issue is not whether peasants respond to economic incentives, but how. This study is a survey of the theoretical and empirical ex…
Food security strategies under extremely adverse conditions
Smallholder agriculture, wage labour and rural poverty alleviation in land-abundant areas of Africa
This paper challenges the conclusions of earlier writers regarding the roles of smallholder agriculture, commercial agriculture and wage labour in rural poverty alleviation in Mozambique. We review literature from across Sub-Saharan Africa and use recently collected household level data sets to place Mozambique within this literature. Results show that, as in the rest of SSA, wage labour earnings are concentrated among the best-off rural smallhol…
Exploring the Logic Behind Southern Africa’s Food Crises
How Institutions Mediate the Impact of Cash Cropping on Food Crop Intensification
Economics (5 works) · Agricultural Innovations and Practices (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Agriculture (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Poverty (3 works) · Agricultural economics (2 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (2 works) · Food security (2 works)