Learning Just Just How Periods Influence Agricultural Economies Could Inform Developing Strategies

For farmers in rural Zambia, payday comes one time a at harvest time year. This fact impacts virtually every part of their everyday lives, but up to now researchers hadn’t recognized the real degree.

Economist Kelsey Jack, an connect teacher at UC Santa Barbara, sought to analyze exactly just just how this extreme seasonality affects farmers’ livelihoods, along with development initiatives targeted at enhancing their condition. (more…)