Employment patterns in clusters of foreign agricultural investments farms in rural areas
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Date
2022
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Scientific Research Publishing
Abstract
Employment outcomes from foreign land-based agricultural investments (FAI)
are contested despite existence of paucity in literature on why individuals seek
such employment. This paper assesses individuals’ motives for seeking or not
seeking employment in FAI farms using multiple correspondence and cluster
analysis to understand employment seeking patterns and their association with
age, gender and household poverty. Analysis based on stratified proportionate
random cross-sectional data collected in Karatu, Iringa and Njombe districts
from populations near foreign farms. Three FAI farm employment seeking
patterns were established namely individuals motivated by lack of employ-
ment alternatives, individuals preferring FAI farm employment and individ-
uals who were curious to learn new knowledge, ideas and skills. FAI employ-
ment seeking pattern was independent of age or gender but it was signifi-
cantly associated with household poverty ( p = 0.05). Individuals seeking FAI
employment due to lack of employment opportunities frequently belong to
poorest households while individuals belonging to less-poor household pre-
ferred employment for curiosity to learn. Therefore, FAI doesn’t move indi-
vidual out of poverty or make individual poor but is frequently attractive to
individuals from poorest households with limited employment opportunities
while those from less-poor household is a preferred employment for addi-
tional source of immediate income.
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Keywords
Employment, Foreign land-based agricultural investments, Household poverty, Multiple correspondence analysis