Variability in agricultural productivity and rural household consumption inequality: Evidence from Nigeria and Uganda

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dc.contributor.authorAmare, Mulubrhan
dc.contributor.authorShiferaw, Bekele
dc.contributor.authorTakeshima, Hiroyuki
dc.contributor.authorMavrotas, George
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-16T12:27:35Z
dc.date.available2023-01-16T12:27:35Z
dc.date.issued2021-01
dc.description.abstractAbstract This paper uses multiple rounds of panel data to assess the distributional implications of the variability in agricultural productivity in Nigeria and Uganda. It uses both a conventional decomposition and a regression-based inequality decomposition approach to estimate the impact of climate-induced variability in agricultural productivity. To mitigate the endogeneity associated with unobserved time-invariant and time-variant household fixed effects, we use rainfall shocks as a proxy for estimating the exogenous variability in agricultural productivity that affects consumption. Results suggest that a 10% increase in the variability of agricultural productivity tends to decrease household consumption by 3.7 and 5.2% on average for Nigeria and Uganda, respectively. Controlling for other factors, variability in agricultural productivity contributed to between 25% and 43% of consumption inequality between 2010 and 2015 for Nigeria; and 16% and 31% of consumption inequality between 2009 and 2011 for Uganda. We also show that variability in agricultural productivity increases changes in consumption inequality over time.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAmare, Mulubrhan, Bekele Shiferaw, Hiroyuki Takeshima, et al. 'Variability in Agricultural Productivity and Rural Household Consumption Inequality: Evidence from Nigeria and Uganda', Agricultural Economics, vol. 52/no. 1, (2021), pp. 19-36.en_US
dc.identifier.issnISSN 0169-5150
dc.identifier.urihttps://nru.uncst.go.ug/handle/123456789/6957
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherWiley Subscription Services, Incen_US
dc.subjectagricultural productivity, climate shocks, consumption, inequality, Nigeria, rural, Ugandaen_US
dc.titleVariability in agricultural productivity and rural household consumption inequality: Evidence from Nigeria and Ugandaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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