期刊名称：Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development
印刷版ISSN：1899-5241
电子版ISSN：1899-5772
出版年度：2019
卷号：54
期号：4
页码：373-384
DOI：10.17306/J.JARD.2019.01200
出版社：Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy w Poznaniu
摘要：The purpose of this paper was to identify the factors
influencing households to diversify rural on-farm livelihood
activities in Intsika Yethu Local Municipality. This is
against a background where literature suggests low livelihoods
diversification among rural households despite several
claimed benefits of diversification. Cross-sectional survey
data was randomly collected for this study in October 2018
from 190 rural households in Intsika Yethu Local Municipality.
A structured questionnaire was used for that purpose.
Ordered logistic regression analysis was used to analyze the
data. The results showed that diversification of on-farm livelihood
activities was influenced by the gender of household
head, education level of household head, household size, and
number of livestock units owned. To promote on-farm livelihoods
diversification in rural areas, the paper suggests targeting
gender differential, informal education and awareness,
labor dynamics associated with on-farm livelihood activities
and household livestock units.
