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Abstract
Farm-level diversification involves adding income-generating activities at the
farm household level, including livestock, local non-farm and off-farm pursuits
undertaken by farm people. The objective of this paper is to consider questions
arising from an apparent inconsistency. In this respect, policy makers seem to
consider farm diversification a major 'economic' issue, thus as an objective,
while economists typically neglect it, seeing farm diversification as an outcome
from pursuing another objective. This lack of a consensus is further
reflected by disagreement over the extent to which national policies should
proactively seek to promote diversification of the farm-level output mix in
specific directions.