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Title: | Manipulating the rural landscape: villagisation and income generation in Rwanda |
Author: | Isaksson, Ann-Sofie |
Year: | 2013 |
Periodical: | Journal of African Economies (ISSN 0963-8024) |
Volume: | 22 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 394-436 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Rwanda |
Subjects: | settlement schemes household income villagization |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1093/jae/ejs038 |
Abstract: | The aim of this paper is to investigate whether households that are relocated to government-built village settlements, as part of Rwanda's Villagization programme ('Imidugudu'), diversify into non-farm income-generating activities more than other rural households in Rwanda, and if so, to what extent the variation can be explained by differences in micro-level asset and meso-level access factors. Despite the programme objective to stimulate non-farm activity, the results of empirical estimations drawing on household and community-level data suggest that Imidugudu households differ surprisingly little from other rural households in terms of diversification into non-farm income sources. Moreover, the slightly greater participation in non-farm income-generating activities observed among the Imidugudu households can be attributed to regional variation and household characteristics mattering for selection into the programme, rather than to asset endowments and improved service access. The results, thus, provide very little indication that the programme has achieved its objective of stimulating diversification into non-farm income-generating activities. Rather, they highlight the need to carefully monitor the earning opportunities of resettled households that have been disrupted from their familiar productive environment. App., bibliogr., notes, sum. [Journal abstract] |