Poverty Alleviation Through Empowerment of Small Farmers : A Case study of Arid Region in Pakistan

The book reveals the Small farmer's poverty can be reduced through empowering them.The objective of the study were to study the poverty profile, the factors responsible for small farmer's poverty to identify the various knowledge based farm activities to empower small farmers.The study collected the data from Barani region of Pakistan by survey using questionnaire.The study used FGT index for measuring the poverty and the logit regression model to determine the factors causing poverty among small farmers.Empirical results explained that the factors like farm size, education, land holding, income, family size and productivity had impact on farmer's poverty.