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Radhia Bouchakour, Slimane Bedrani, Omar Bouazouni
Pluriactivity is a widespread phenomenon that has been credited for helping the survival as well as the demise of the rural farm. Given the prevalence of poverty in rural areas, farmers have always relied on non-farm income to survive. But the recent shrinking of rural areas has also raised the question of whether pluriactivity has helped the disappearance of farms. This paper explores four main determinants of pluriactivity and extends prior work by considering their relation to the neoclassical and portfolio theories. The context is that of a developing country as the existing literature has so far largely neglected this phenomenon within developing countries. We empirically test a set of four hypotheses drawn both from theory and prior empirical work.
