Are African households (not) leaving agriculture? Patterns of households’ income sources in rural Sub-Saharan Africa
基于22国41项调查数据，分析撒哈拉以南非洲农村家庭收入来源模式，发现52%农户仍以农业为主，地理条件（农业潜力、距城市距离）影响显著，但未发现非洲农户在非农转型上与其他地区有不同轨迹。
This paper uses comparable income aggregates from 41 national household surveys from 22 countries to explore the patterns of income generation among rural households in Sub-Saharan Africa, and to compare household income strategies in Sub-Saharan Africa with those in other regions. The paper seeks to understand how geography drives these strategies, focusing on the role of agricultural potential and distance to urban areas. Specialization in on-farm activities continues to be the norm in rural Africa, practiced by 52 percent of households (as opposed to 21 percent of households in other regions). Regardless of distance and integration in the urban context, when agro-climatic conditions are favorable, farming remains the occupation of choice for most households in the African countries for which the study has geographically explicit information. However, the paper finds no evidence that African households are on a different trajectory than households in other regions in terms of transitioning to non-agricultural based income strategies.