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on Agricultural Economics |
| By: | Schmid, Anna |
| Keywords: | Agricultural And Food Policy, Farm Management, Risk And Uncertainty |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343891 |
| By: | Li, Yanggu; Zhang, Wei |
| Keywords: | Agricultural And Food Policy, Environmental Economics And Policy, Production Economics |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343598 |
| By: | Paz, Bruno; Dalheimer, Bernhard; Wollni, Meike |
| Abstract: | Increasing food demand will most likely be met with agricultural intensification and land clearing, exacerbating environmental consequences associated with food supply. The mechanisms and trade-offs between agriculture and the environment are heterogeneous and not well understood, yet key to enhance food production while safeguarding the environment, ensuring a dual purpose of food systems. This study examines the relationship between voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) and Rwandese coffee farmers’ technical efficiency and productivity while exploring the mechanisms behind potential trade-offs and synergies between certification, productivity, and forest protection. Using cross-sectional farm-level data of 842 coffee farmers in Rwanda, we measure the effect of VSS on technical efficiency and an enhanced vegetation index (EVI) reflecting vegetation health and density around the farm. We combine a stochastic frontier analysis controlling for sample selection bias with mediation analysis. Our analysis shows that certified farmers exhibit greater technical efficiency levels than non-certified farmers. We can attribute this to better farm management, leading to 19% and 4% increases in their productivity and technical efficiency, respectively. Our analysis also suggests that certifications lead to higher enhanced vegetation index scores in and around the coffee plots, which we attribute to the regulatory mechanisms associated with certification. We conclude that VSS can enhance coffee production while safeguarding the environment and being a valuable component of a more comprehensive rural development program. |
| Keywords: | Community/Rural/Urban Development, Crop Production/Industries, Environmental Economics and Policy, Farm Management, International Development, Production Economics, Productivity Analysis, Sustainability |
| Date: | 2024–07 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:gausfs:344224 |
| By: | Sun, Zhining; Katchova, Ani |
| Keywords: | Agricultural Finance, Agribusiness, Agricultural And Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:344064 |
| By: | Nuworsu, Eugene K. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural And Food Policy, Agribusiness, Production Economics |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343772 |
| By: | Bauner, Christoph; Lavoie, Nathalie |
| Keywords: | Agricultural And Food Policy, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, Marketing |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343779 |
| By: | Luke, Jaime; Tonsor, Glynn T. |
| Keywords: | Livestock Production/Industries, Demand And Price Analysis, Agricultural And Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343867 |
| By: | Sharma, Vishavdeep; Katchova, Ani |
| Keywords: | Agricultural Finance, Agribusiness, Agricultural And Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:344000 |
| By: | Bafowaa, Bridget Y.; Leschewski, Andrea |
| Keywords: | Food Security And Poverty, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, Agricultural And Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343616 |
| By: | Boukaka, Sedi Anne; Azzarri, Carlo; Davis, Kristin E. |
| Abstract: | Conventional agriculture, while providing mass-scale production of cheap and plentiful food, has extracted a massive toll on both the environment and humans. On the one hand, industrial agriculture drives 80 percent of deforestation, threatens 86 percent of the 28, 000 species currently at risk of extinction (through habitat conversion and pollution), is responsible for significant loss of crop and genetic diversity and up to 37 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE), accelerates land degradation and land-use change, and uses 70 percent of global water resources withdrawn. On the other hand, it has reduced nutrition outcomes for families and farming incomes due to impoverished soil and water health, reduced crop resistance to pests and diseases, and poor waste management. This unsustainable food production toll is further exacerbated by misaligned public policies and economic incentives. There is an urgent need to shift to more resilient farming systems capable of supporting smallholder farmers and ensuring that agriculture is a net positive contributor to nature. In 2021 the United Nations Food Systems Summit formally recognized nature-positive production as one of five critical pathways to sustainable food systems (Von Braun et al. 2023). |
| Keywords: | agriculture; agrifood systems; resilience; smallholders; sustainability; nutrition; surveys; labour; Africa; Eastern Africa; Kenya |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fpr:cgiarp:149119 |
| By: | Kilduff, Alice M. |
| Keywords: | Crop Production/Industries, Risk And Uncertainty, Agricultural And Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343884 |
| By: | EORY Vera; BEGHO T.; MACLEOD Michael; MARTINEZ Mari Angeles; CASTELLANOS Vicente; GOMEZ BARBERO Manuel (European Commission - JRC) |
| Abstract: | Livestock production is responsible for most of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from European agriculture. To achieve the climate targets in the European Union, reducing emissions from the food chain, and within that from livestock production, is imperative. Along with structural changes, management and technological improvements on farms have an important role in reducing GHG emissions. However, our understanding of the uptake of low-GHG practices is limited, with uneven evidence across countries and practices. This report adds to the evidence base on the uptake of mitigation practices by presenting the results of two surveys, one done with dairy farmers in Poland about the use of breeding indices, and the other with pig producers in France about multi-phase feeding. The results provide evidence of the importance of farm size and specialisation in practice uptake, while also pointing to the role of the processors in the case of milk production. The most common barriers are high cost, low return on investment and a perception that the farm is too small to implement such practices. Adopters mentioned the benefits of improved milk yield and genetics and also better knowledge of the herd in the case of the breeding index, and reduced feed costs and nitrogen excretion with multi-phase feeding. Simulations of greenhouse gas emissions associated with the adopters’ and non-adopters’ farming systems showed a potential reduction of GHG emission intensity in both cases, namely 9% for milk production with using the breeding index in the herd and 3% for pig meat production with multi-phase feeding. |
| Date: | 2024–07 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ipt:iptwpa:jrc130981 |
| By: | Yan, Hongqiang; Goodwin, Barry K. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural Finance, Agribusiness, Agricultural And Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343669 |
| By: | Fang, Xiaoyi; Katchova, Ani |
| Keywords: | Agricultural Finance, Agricultural And Food Policy, Agribusiness |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:344007 |
| By: | Kwon, Suyeon; Suh, Dong Hee |
| Keywords: | Agricultural Finance, Production Economics, Risk And Uncertainty |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343632 |
| By: | Teal, Jim |
| Keywords: | Agricultural Finance, Agribusiness, Risk And Uncertainty |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343927 |
| By: | Fromage, Mathilde |
| Abstract: | In the context of climate change, land institutions may adapt to shifts in land market dynamics to ensure efficient resource allocation and support adaptation and mitigation initiatives. However, the intricate relationship between climate change and land markets is complex and not fully understood. Focusing on metropolitan France, this study aims to present a comprehensive perspective on the interactions between climate change and land markets. Examining data from a review of public documents, a survey of French land market institutions, and additional interviews through the lens of the climate change-land conditions-land markets nexus, the results highlight diverse impacts of climate change and varying land conditions across regions. Local adaptation and mitigation measures, such as introducing new crops, diversifying agricultural activities, and implementing energy production initiatives, are observed. Concurrently, there is evidence of a diversified set of participants in land markets and a trend toward the concentration of property rights. Changes in the determinants of prices, with a growing emphasis on water access and market competition, are also noted. Consequently, this study offers a comprehensive view of the interconnected dynamics between climate change and land markets in France. Additionally, it advocates for a deeper exploration of underlying mechanisms to identify potential pathways for the adaptation of land institutions. |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics and Policy, Land Economics/Use, Research Methods/ Statistical Methods |
| Date: | 2024–04–30 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:inrasl:344113 |
| By: | Chen, Luoye; Khanna, Madhu |
| Keywords: | Land Economics/Use, Agricultural And Food Policy, Environmental Economics And Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343631 |
| By: | Zaman, Azaz; Miao, Ruiqing |
| Keywords: | Agricultural And Food Policy, Environmental Economics And Policy, Agribusiness |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:344069 |
| By: | Khakimov, Parviz; Aliev, Jovidon; Thomas, Timothy S.; Ilyasov, Jarilkasin; Pechtl, Sarah; Dunston, Shahnila |
| Abstract: | Climate change is one of the main challenges for Tajikistan’s agricultural development in the medium and longer term. Tajikistan’s Agri-Food System and Sustainable Development Program (ASDP) for the period up to 2030 defined climate change as one of four key challenges to the development of agriculture and food systems. Accordingly, the Program accentuates the importance climate-optimized agriculture to ensure sustainable development of the sector. The effects of climate change on agriculture in Tajikistan was examined using IFPRI’s International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT) by simulating climate change and no climate change (baseline) scenarios between 2015 and 2050. |
| Keywords: | climate change; agricultural development; agrifood systems; sustainable development; crops; irrigation; Tajikistan; Central Asia |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fpr:ceaspb:141637 |
| By: | Xu, Lei |
| Keywords: | Demand And Price Analysis, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, Agricultural And Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343717 |
| By: | Khakimov, Parviz; Aliev, Jovidon; Thomas, Timothy S.; Ilyasov, Jarilkasin; Pechtl, Sarah; Dunston, Shahnila |
| Abstract: | Climate change is one of the main challenges for Tajikistan’s agricultural development in the medium and longer term. Tajikistan’s Agri-Food System and Sustainable Development Program (ASDP) for the period up to 2030 defined climate change as one of four key challenges to the development of agriculture and food systems. Accordingly, the Program accentuates the importance climate-optimized agriculture to ensure sustainable development of the sector. The effects of climate change on agriculture in Tajikistan was examined using IFPRI’s International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT) by simulating climate change and no climate change (baseline) scenarios between 2015 and 2050. |
| Keywords: | climate change; agricultural development; agrifood systems; sustainable development; crops; irrigation; Tajikistan; Central Asia |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fpr:ceaspb:141637t |
| By: | Poudel, Dikshit; Scognamillo, Antonio |
| Keywords: | Food Security And Poverty, Agricultural And Food Policy, Environmental Economics And Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343910 |
| By: | Khakimov, Parviz; Aliev, Jovidon; Thomas, Timothy S.; Ilyasov, Jarilkasin; Pechtl, Sarah; Dunston, Shahnila |
| Abstract: | Climate change is one of the main challenges for food security in Tajikistan in the medium and long term. Tajikistan’s Agri-Food System and Sustainable Development Program (ASDP) for the period up to 2030 defined food and nutrition security as one of six priorities. Additionally, climate change is one of the key obstacles to the achievement of the country’s strategic objective defined in the National Development Strategy (NDS) 2016–2030, which is to improve the living standards of the population, and one of the four strategic priorities, which is to ensure food security and access to quality nutrition by 2030. The effects of climate change on food security in Tajikistan were examined using IFPRI’s International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT) by simulating climate change and no climate change (baseline) scenarios between 2015 and 2050. |
| Keywords: | Tajikistan; Central Asia; Asia; climate change; food security; sustainable development; nutrition |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fpr:ceaspb:141633 |
| By: | Rueda, Ximena |
| Abstract: | The global agri-food system is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions and poses a significant threat to biodiversity. Private sector impact investment to support and encourage farmers to combat climate change and protect nature is rapidly increasing alongside calls to repurpose public agricultural subsidies. Globally, support to agricultural producers currently accounts for almost USD 540 billion a year, with potential for a redirection of this new money to farmers and landowners through "Paying for Nature" schemes. However, developing effective, efficient, and inclusive reward mechanisms presents challenges, requiring focused investment in innovation and learning. Common issues include defining practical metrics for outcomes and ensuring fair payment structures for all stakeholders. Solving these challenges demands serious investment in innovation and collaboration with farmers, communities, and local governments. Based on a literature review, this paper presents a series of proposals on how to design instruments that will require strong investment in innovation in the design and implementation of reward and compliance mechanisms, working closely with farmers, communities, and local governments to develop practical and relevant solutions. Attention must be paid to fairness, social equity, and achieving multiple environmental outcomes, such as biodiversity protection and water pollution prevention, while maintaining agricultural productivity. Targeted and well-funded interventions are essential, especially to support vulnerable rural communities facing climate change and biodiversity loss. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural Finance |
| Date: | 2024–07–29 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:cfcp15:344408 |
| By: | Robertson, Dewey J.; Keeney, Roman M. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural And Food Policy, International Relations/Trade |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343752 |
| By: | Yeh, D. Adeline; Olver, Ryan |
| Keywords: | Crop Production/Industries, Agricultural And Food Policy, Production Economics |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343850 |
| By: | Shrestha, Samyam |
| Keywords: | Labor And Human Capital, International Relations/Trade, Agricultural And Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343996 |
| By: | Wang, Duoyu; Cleary, Rebecca |
| Keywords: | Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, Food Security And Poverty, Agricultural And Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343960 |
| By: | Hadachek, Jeffrey; Ma, Meilin |
| Keywords: | Risk And Uncertainty, Agricultural And Food Policy, Agribusiness |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343748 |
| By: | Peterson, Hikaru Hanawa; Bozich, Madison |
| Keywords: | Agricultural And Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:344027 |
| By: | Hutchins, Jared P. |
| Keywords: | Livestock Production/Industries, Environmental Economics And Policy, Agricultural And Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343868 |
| By: | Gallagher, Nicholas |
| Keywords: | Agricultural And Food Policy, Research Methods/Statistical Methods, Risk And Uncertainty |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343978 |
| By: | Lwin, Wuit Yi; Schaefer, K. Aleks |
| Keywords: | International Relations/Trade, Livestock Production/Industries, Agricultural And Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343942 |
| By: | Lusk, Jackson D.; Ellison, Brenna |
| Keywords: | Marketing, Agribusiness, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343713 |
| By: | Lin, Lin; Ortega, David L. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural And Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343549 |
| By: | Robinson, Sherman; Dunston, Shahnila; Mishra, Abhijeet; Sulser, Timothy B.; Mason-D’Croz, Daniel; Robertson, Richard D.; Cenacchi, Nicola; Thomas, Timothy S.; Zhu, Tingju; Gueneau, Arthur; Pitois, Gauthier; Wiebe, Keith D.; Rosegrant, Mark W. |
| Abstract: | The International Food Policy Research Institute’s IMPACT model is a robust tool for analyzing global and regional challenges in food, agriculture, and natural resources. Continuously updated and refined, IMPACT version 3.6 is the latest update to the model for continuously improving the treatment of complex issues, including climate change, food security, and economic development. IMPACT 3.6 multimarket model integrates climate, crop simulation, and water models into a comprehensive system, providing decision-makers with a flexible platform to assess the potential impacts of various scenarios on biophysical systems, socioeconomic trends, technologies, and policies. |
| Keywords: | agriculture; commodities; policy analysis; policy innovation; models |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fpr:resrep:148953 |
| By: | Mugabo, Serge; Warner, James |
| Abstract: | This paper explores crop commercialization among smallholder agricultural households in Rwanda from a cost and revenue perspective to determine profitability at the farm level. We use standard revenue and cost equations to assess the commercial viability of the smallholders. In general, we find that a household’s total crop production creates positive returns even if implicit costs, such as own family labor and fertilizer subsidies, are included. Specifically, over 80 percent of our sample households generated positive economic returns from farming— referred to as demonstrating a positive gross economic margin (GEM). However, if only crop market sales and market input costs are used in the calculations, only 40 percent of agricultural households generated positive returns—referred to as demonstrating a positive gross marketing margin (GMM). Most of the explanation for this difference is that the typical farm household sells only about one-third of its crop production by value. This outcome suggests that many agricultural households continue to focus on cultivating food crops for their own consumption and do not specialize in commercial production. This is to be expected in an economic context where input, credit, and commodity markets are still developing, production decisions are still shaped by high levels of weather and market risk, and production risk management options are limited, among many other factors. The results of this research provide a better understanding of how Rwandan smallholders might move towards higher value production, with the ultimate goal being to increase household revenues and welfare and accelerate the country’s economic transformation. |
| Keywords: | Africa; Eastern Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; Rwanda; crops; commercialization; smallholders; agriculture; profitability |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fpr:rsspwp:14 |
| By: | Deol, Suhina |
| Keywords: | Institutional And Behavioral Economics, Farm Management |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343721 |
| By: | Son, Miyeon; Lusk, Jayson L. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural And Food Policy, Marketing, Agribusiness |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343745 |
| By: | Bazoche, Pascale; Angeon, Valérie |
| Abstract: | Product qualification and differentiation processes based on environmental attributes are part of the process of the ecologisation of food systems. They provide a better understanding of food consumption behaviour, insofar as they help to promote sustainable production systems. These issues are particularly relevant in the French West Indies, where consumers make little use of objective quality signals such as labels, brands or sustainability claims. To assess consumer sensitivity to the environmental attributes of fruit and vegetables, a real choice experiment was conducted with a sample of 88 Guadeloupean consumers. Assessments produced by a mixed logit model showed that price had a significant discriminating impact on the utility of products for consumers. The results also reveal that consumers expressed a preference for environmental attributes that varied according to the type of product. We observed that sensory perception is influenced by the recognition of quality labels and that local production is not associated with respect for the environment. |
| Keywords: | Demand and Price Analysis, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety |
| Date: | 2024–07–18 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:inrasl:344172 |
| By: | Mansouri, Jamil R.; Ellison, Brenna |
| Keywords: | Agricultural And Food Policy, Environmental Economics And Policy, Political Economy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343773 |
| By: | Cooper, Joseph C.; Breneman, Vincent E. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural And Food Policy, Land Economics/Use, Community/Rural/Urban Development |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343946 |
| By: | Kim, Jiyeon; Yu, Jisang |
| Keywords: | International Relations/Trade, Agricultural And Food Policy, Farm Management |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343707 |
| By: | Haile, Beliyou; Azzarri, Carlo; Castaing, Pauline; Kizito, Fred; Vitellozzi, Sveva; Boukaka, Sedi-Anne |
| Abstract: | Sustainable intensification (SI) of the smallholder sector in Africa south of the Sahara is among the approaches pursued to build resilient food systems that can supply nutritionally adequate food in the face of rapid population growth and climatic changes. This study assesses the impact of Africa RISING, an SI program in Ghana implemented in the poorest and most food insecure areas of the country since 2012. The program first validated and then scaled up a wide range of SI interventions focused on improved agronomic management and crop cultivars; improved livestock feed, housing conditions, and species; crop-livestock integration; integrated natural resource management; vegetable production and nutritional education; and small-scale mechanization. Impact is estimated using two rounds of quasi-experimental panel data (conducted in 2014 and 2020), propensity score matching, and difference-indifferences techniques. The study design allows us to estimate the impact of Africa RISING by comparing outcomes among program beneficiaries with those of two different control groups—one residing in program villages (within village comparison) and another in non-program (control) villages (out-of-village comparison) on several indicators across five SI domains—environment, productivity, economic, human, and social. We also conduct a placebo test comparing non-beneficiaries in the two control groups. Results from panel data analyses show improvements in several indicators in the environmental and productivity domains. We also find a positive impact on use of conservation practices (fallowing, disc/moldboard ploughing, manure), groundnut yield, livestock, net crop income, and women’s likelihood of becoming members of farmers groups relative to non-beneficiaries. We do not find a statistically significant effect on consumption- and asset-based poverty rates, household dietary diversity, and several indicators of maternal and child nutrition. For both beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries, the share of monetary-based non-poor, dietary diversity, and food security have declined between baseline (2014) and follow-up (2020) likely due COVID-19. Our study highlights useful empirical lessons learned for informing future program design and impact assessments. |
| Keywords: | impact assessment; sustainable intensification; smallholders; resilience; food systems; climate change; Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; Western Africa; Ghana |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fpr:resrep:148741 |
| By: | Kirui, Oliver K.; Ahmed, Mosab; Siddig, Khalid; Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum; Abushama, Hala; Dorosh, Paul A.; Krishnaswamy, Siddharth; Monetta, Cinzia; Clough, Alice; Gualtieri, Alberto; Leaduma, Amos |
| Abstract: | The conflict in Sudan has severely impacted the food security landscape in rural areas, with profound implications for household diets, coping strategies, and overall food insecurity levels. Data from a national rural household phone survey conducted between October 2023 and January 2024 highlights the dire food consumption patterns, the prevalence of food insecurity, and the reliance on reduced coping strategies among the rural population of Sudan. As of the end of 2023, nearly 40 percent of rural households were consuming inadequate diets, with West Kordofan, South Kordofan, North Darfur, East Darfur, and Sennar states experiencing the highest prevalence of poor food consumption (34, 33, 29 and 24 percent, respectively). The primary components of diets were cereals and oils, with nutrient-rich foods, such as meats and fruits, consumed less frequently, highlighting a critical gap in nutritional adequacy. The situation has resulted in households across Sudan resorting to a range of coping strategies to try to meet their food needs, such as buying less preferred or less expensive food (on average 4 days out of 7), limiting portion sizes, or reducing the number of daily meals. The five coping mechanisms that were examined in the analysis were found to be implemented with approximately similar frequencies across rural Sudan. However, the situation was particularly dire in West Darfur, South Kordofan, and Khartoum, the states recording the highest prevalence of consumption of inadequate diets and the highest reduced Coping Strategy Index (rCSI) scores. |
| Keywords: | capacity development; food security; rural areas; households; diet; Sudan; Africa; Northern Africa |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fpr:resrep:145388 |
| By: | Smith, Sarah; Beatty, Timothy |
| Keywords: | Production Economics, Agribusiness, Crop Production/Industries |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343613 |
| By: | Bohn, Sophia; Wollni, Meike; Paz, Bruno |
| Abstract: | Sustainability standards promise not only to promote environmentally friendly production, but also to improve farmers’ livelihoods by linking them to high-value markets. While there has been extensive research on how sustainability standards affect farmers’ incomes, much less attention has been paid to whether sustainability standards can help improve smallholders’ diets. In addition, the link between the gender effects of sustainability standards and nutrition has remained largely unexplored. Using data from certified and non-certified coffee farmers in different districts of Rwanda, we assess the impact of certification on dietary quality. In addition, we examine women’s empowerment as a potential pathway for the impact of sustainability standards on farmers’ nutrition. We use inverse probability weighting regression adjustment and mediation analysis to estimate our results. We find positive associations between certification and dietary quality. Our results further suggest that women’s empowerment is indeed a mediator of dietary quality, but that there may be other potential impact channels that need to be investigated. We conclude that efforts to improve women’s empowerment within certification schemes can improve farmers’ nutrition, but other complementary pathways need to be better understood. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Community/Rural/Urban Development, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, Sustainability |
| Date: | 2024–07 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:gausfs:344225 |
| By: | Gurung, Suraj; Chen, Lijun |
| Keywords: | Agribusiness, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, Marketing |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:344012 |
| By: | Ashok Gulati (Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER)); Raya Das; Alex Winter-Nelson |
| Abstract: | The report provides a focused analysis aimed at identifying effective policy interventions to reduce these losses, both at the farmer level and throughout the agricultural value chain. Part-1 of the report examines both the quantity and quality losses for paddy, wheat, maize, and soybean in selected states. Drawing upon extensive data gathered through 1200 farmers surveys, this section sheds light on the underlying determinants of post-harvest losses at farmers' level. By pointing areas of inefficiency, Part-1 lays the groundwork for targeted interventions aimed at improving post-harvest management practices at farmers' level. Part-2 extends into a comprehensive analysis of grain management practices by the government, particularly focusing on rice and wheat, which are central to public procurement and public distribution system in India. Through an in-depth examination of the operations of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) and the engagement of other major private sector stakeholders, this part of the report offers insights into existing grain storage infrastructure in India. By identifying best practices and areas for improvement, Part-2 serves as a roadmap for enhancing the efficiency of the grain management systems in India. |
| Keywords: | Agriculture, post-harvest loss, market, infrastructure, farmer, ADMI |
| Date: | 2024–05 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:bdc:report:24-r-03 |
| By: | Haile, Beliyou; Azzarri, Carlo; Tzintzun, Ivan; Boukaka, Sedi-Anne; Vitellozzi, Sveva |
| Abstract: | Sustainable intensification (SI) of the smallholder sector in Africa south of the Sahara is among the approaches pursued to build resilient food systems that can supply nutritionally adequate food in the face of rapid population growth and climatic changes. This study assesses the impact of an SI program in Tanzania implemented in the poorest and most food insecure areas of the country since 2012. The program first validated and then scaled up a wide range of SI interventions focused on improved agronomic management and crop cultivars; improved livestock feed, housing conditions, and species; crop-livestock integration; integrated natural resource management; vegetable production and nutritional education; and small-scale mechanization. Impact is estimated on several SI indicators and domains using two rounds of quasi-experimental panel data (conducted in 2014 and 2022), propensity score matching, and difference-in-differences techniques. The study design allows us to estimate the impact of Africa RISING by comparing outcomes among program beneficiaries with two different counterfactual groups—one located inside program villages (within-village comparison) and another in non-program (control) villages (out-of-village comparison)—on several indicators across five SI domains environment, productivity, economic, human, and social. We also conduct a placebo test comparing non-beneficiaries in the two counterfactual groups. Results from panel data analyses show improvements in several indicators in the environmental and productivity domains. We also find positive impact of participation in Africa RISING on several indicators under all the considered domains: beneficiaries were less likely to experience soil erosion, used more inputs (fertilizers, pesticides, and seeds) per hectare, obtained higher legume yields, were more likely to produce meat and dairy, reported higher net livestock income, and experienced fewer months of food insecurity. Estimates based on within-village, out-of-village, overall, and placebo comparisons suggest important insights about the challenges in assessing the impact of agricultural programs in general and, specifically, participatory multi-intervention programs in the presence of sample (self-)selection and spillovers. Our study highlights useful empirical lessons learned for informing future program design and impact assessments. |
| Keywords: | impact assessment; sustainable intensification; smallholders; resilience; food systems; climatic change; Tanzania; Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; Eastern Africa |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fpr:resrep:148751 |
| By: | Baldos, Uris Lantz C. |
| Keywords: | Food Security And Poverty, Production Economics, Productivity Analysis |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343904 |
| By: | Calil, Yuri Clements Daglia |
| Keywords: | Livestock Production/Industries, Marketing, Agricultural Finance |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343928 |
| By: | Xue, Huidan; Du, Yuxuan |
| Keywords: | Demand And Price Analysis, Risk And Uncertainty, Agricultural And Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343639 |
| By: | Ufer, Danielle J. |
| Keywords: | Consumer/ Household Economics, Agricultural And Food Policy, Agribusiness |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343589 |
| By: | Miranda De Souza Almeida, Felipe |
| Keywords: | Production Economics, Productivity Analysis, International Development |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343844 |
| By: | Capps, Oral; Wang, Lingxiao |
| Keywords: | Consumer/ Household Economics, Demand And Price Analysis, Agribusiness |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343575 |
| By: | Laroche Dupraz, Catherine |
| Abstract: | Can global food security be achieved by implementing food sovereignty strategies at different geographical scales? After distinguishing between food autonomy and food sovereignty, we show that the concept of food sovereignty alone does not provide an answer to the problem of inter-scale coherence, since the choices made by some territories could restrict the freedom of choice of others. Several projections make it possible to identify arrival points that are compatible with the objective of global food security, while respecting the limits of planetary resources, climate change and damage to biodiversity, they indicate the implications of respecting these conditions at national or sub-national territorial levels. However, much work remains to be done on the methodology to be adopted to ensure that regional strategies converge towards the same desirable future. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Institutional and Behavioral Economics, International Relations/Trade |
| Date: | 2024–07–16 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:inrasl:344136 |
| By: | Yann Raineau (UR ETTIS - Environnement, territoires en transition, infrastructures, sociétés - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement, BSE - Bordeaux sciences économiques - UB - Université de Bordeaux - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement); Marianne Lefebvre (UA - Université d'Angers); Chantal Le Mouël (INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement, SMART - Structures et Marché Agricoles, Ressources et Territoires - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - Institut Agro Rennes Angers - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement); Jesus Barreiro Hurle (Joint Research Center, Ispra, Italy); Thomas M Chappell (Texas A&M University System); Marius Wolf; Marco de Toffol; Dimitri Dubois (Groupama); Sylvain Coutu (AXA Climate); Niklas Möhring (Universität Bonn = University of Bonn); Marco Rogna; Emilio Rodriguez Cerezo (Joint Research Center, Ispra, Italy); Manuel Gomez-Barbero (Joint Research Center, Ispra, Italy) |
| Abstract: | Plant pests and diseases can cause considerable impacts on crop yields, and in turn food and feed security. Pesticides are one of the most frequent tools used to control or eliminate these pests and diseases playing a crucial role to assure food security. However, pesticide use also leads to undesired environmental and health impacts. The European Commission´s Joint Research Centre organized a workshop in November 2023 to explore innovative alternative business models that are emerging to facilitate reductions in pesticide use and risk while minimizing impacts in food security. This report summarizes the contributions presented at the workshop covering the legislative framework for pesticide reduction, theoretical considerations on pesticide reduction behaviour, examples of new technologies and business models being developed and insights from research on their potential to facilitate the transition to a low-pesticide use agriculture. The overall message stemming from the workshop is that outcome-based services and insurance policies can be key tool to enable farmers to achieve this reduction. However, the existing empirical evidence of the performance of these tools is still very scarce and these new business models still have to show their potential when upscaling from pre-commercial stage. |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04628080 |
| By: | Sun, Ran; Lin, Wen |
| Keywords: | Demand And Price Analysis, Industrial Organization, Agricultural And Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343829 |
| By: | Ferraro, Greg; Rejesus, Roderick M. |
| Keywords: | Agribusiness, Environmental Economics And Policy, Agricultural And Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343774 |
| By: | Assefa, Thomas; Berhane, Guush; Abate, Gashaw T.; Abay, Kibrom |
| Abstract: | We revisit the state of smallholder fertilizer demand and profitability in Ethiopia in the face of the recent global fuel–food–fertilizer price crisis triggered by the Russian–Ukraine war and compounded by other domestic supply shocks. We first examine farmers’ response to changes in both fertilizer and food prices by estimating price elasticity of demand. We then revisit the profitability of fertilizer by computing average value–cost ratios (AVCRs) associated with fertilizer application before and after these crises. We use three-round detailed longitudinal household survey data, covering both pre-crisis (2016 and 2019) and post-crisis (2023) production periods, focusing on three main staple crops in Ethiopia (maize, teff, and wheat). Our analysis shows that fertilizer adoption, use, and yield levels were increasing until the recent crises, but these trends seem halted by these crises. We also find relatively large fertilizer price elasticity of demand estimates, ranging between 0.4 and 1.1, which vary across crops and are substantially larger than previous estimates. We find suggestive evidence that households with smaller farm sizes are relatively more responsive to changes in fertilizer prices. We also document that farmers’ response to increases in staple crop prices is not as strong as perceived and hence appears to be statistically insignificant. Finally, we show important dynamics in the profitability of chemical fertilizer. While the AVCRs show profitable trends for most crops, the share of farmers with profitable AVCRs declined following the fertilizer price surge. Our findings offer important insights for policy focusing on mitigating the adverse effects of fertilizer price shocks. |
| Keywords: | fertilizer application; smallholders; household surveys; yield response factor; shock; Africa; Eastern Africa; Ethiopia |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fpr:ifprid:2263 |
| By: | Goyal, Raghav |
| Keywords: | Agricultural And Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:344005 |
| By: | Uddin, Azhar; Caputo, Vincenzina |
| Keywords: | Food Security And Poverty |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343993 |
| By: | Yu, Shuo |
| Keywords: | International Relations/Trade, Agricultural And Food Policy, Financial Economics |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:344060 |
| By: | Ramsey, Austin F.; Goodwin, Barry K. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural And Food Policy, Livestock Production/Industries, Political Economy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343679 |
| By: | Jeong, Junyoung; Cultice, Brian; Chun, Soomin; Shaffer-Morrison, C. Dale; Gong, Ziqian; Bielicki, Jeffrey; Cai, Yongyang; Irwin, Elena; Jackson-Smith, Douglas; Martin, Jay; Wilson, Robyn |
| Abstract: | Changes in the global economy and climate system have large and wide-ranging repercus- sions for local and regional economies and ecosystems. Here we focus on global-to-local linkages that are hypothesized to impact water quality outcomes within a five-state Great Lakes-Corn Belt region, which includes some of the most intensive agricultural region of the Midwest. We develop a dynamic integrated assessment model (IAM) that links the regional economy to global conditions, local land use change, and water quality outcomes and use a sce- narios framework to assess the likelihood that phosphorus reduction targets for Lake Erie are met by 2050 under a range of plausible global and regional conditions. We examine the relative role that global economic and climate conditions play in regional land use and water quality outcomes and the extent to which local land stewardship incentives and best management prac- tices (BMPs) can offset the potential negative effects of global economic and environmental changes. By integrating a regional-level forward-looking dynamic model, a state-level static computable general equilibrium model, and a local-level land use change model, this IAM en- ables a comprehensive and theoretically consistent integration from global conditions through regional and local decision-making. The model simulates five scenarios defined by distinctly different combinations of global commodity prices, CO2 prices, climate conditions, produc- tivity, population, and economic growth. Our results reveal that success in attaining the policy target is relatively uncertain and highly dependent on future economic, environmental, and policy conditions. We find that only two of the scenarios are projected to attain the 40 per- cent spring DRP and TP reduction targets nine out of ten years by the 2030’s. Other results confirm that lower commodity prices generally lead to reduced cropland acres and are mostly associated with better water quality outcomes. However greater intensification of cropland use is not associated with greater water pollution, a result that may be driven by the relatively high adoption rates for subsurface placement that are reached in later years across scenarios. Taken together, these results demonstrate the potential for local policies to incentivize BMP adoption at levels that can act as a buffer to uncertain, changing global conditions. |
| Keywords: | Climate Change, Environmental Economics and Policy, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety |
| Date: | 2024–01–05 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:assa24:344218 |
| By: | Benfica, Rui |
| Abstract: | Sustainable food systems provide enough quality, healthy, and affordable food to all without imposing a burden on planetary and social boundaries. By this standard, it is quite clear that food systems in many countries are not sustainable as they generate substantial environmental, social, and health costs while failing to provide affordable food to all (FAO et al., 2020). This implies the need to have a good understanding of the extent to which those externalities are present in country specific food systems. The key challenge is that such externalities are not reflected in market prices (Baker et al., 2020), being therefore hidden factors to drivers of choices by market players, as the link between market activity and those social and environmental harms is not directly visible or reflected in the incentives that drive economic systems (UNFSS, 2021). Internalizing the externalities of the food systems will require the full estimation of costs, including the measurement of externalities through “True Cost Accounting†(TCA) approaches. This document provides the analytical framework for the application of approaches in a research study to measure the true costs of food in Kenya and Vietnam. It focuses on: o Key research questions, their relevance, and policy implications o How the TCA analytical framework fits in The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) framework o Country selection and geographic focus – national, sub-national o Data requirements for estimating the true costs, including household surveys, workers’ surveys, externally compiled Global Impact Database (GID), and monetization factors. o A step-by-step process for estimating the true costs in the study area and country level GID analysis. |
| Keywords: | food; food systems; sustainability; markets; prices; Asia; Africa; Kenya; Vietnam |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fpr:resrep:148762 |
| By: | Osanya, Jessica; Reimer, Jeff J. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural And Food Policy, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, Food Security And Poverty |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343900 |
| By: | Basurto Hernandez, Saul; Marneau-Acevedo, Ari |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics And Policy, Land Economics/Use, Production Economics |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:344071 |
| By: | Countryman, Amanda M.; Litvinov, Valentyn; Kolodiazhnyi, Ivan; Bogonos, Mariia; Nivievskyi, Oleg |
| Abstract: | The war in Ukraine caused export disruptions that jeopardize the availability and affordability of agricultural and food products around the world. This research employs a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to understand the global economic effects of warinduced agricultural export declines under varying success of alternate transport from Ukraine given inability to export through the Black Sea. Results show net global welfare effects ranging from more than $5 billion to nearly $20 billion depending on the success of transport through European Solidarity Lanes. |
| Keywords: | Agribusiness, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, International Relations/Trade |
| Date: | 2024–06–01 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:iatrcp:344185 |
| By: | Azzarri, Carlo; Boukaka, Sedi Anne; Vitellozzi, Sveva |
| Abstract: | Interventions/Innovations The Africa RISING (AR) program in Malawi was implemented in Dedza and Ntcheu districts in the country’s Central region, primarily using an on-farm participatory approach. The program supported cropping system improvements through promotion of improved varieties and quality seeds for beans, soybeans, groundnuts, and pigeon peas. It also aimed to foster the adoption of sustainable and productivity enhancing practices (e.g., legume legume or maize-legume intercropping and consistent grain-legume rotation) and nutrient cycling for soil enrichment (e.g., building soil organic matter, implementing a rainfall responsive nitrogen fertilization strategy). Livestock interventions focused primarily on supplementary feeding of goats to promote animal health and weight gain. Increased agricultural productivity and the processing of more nutritious grain legumes were considered prime channels for improving household income, diet diversity, and overall nutrition. |
| Keywords: | agriculture; cropping systems; varieties; beans; soybeans; groundnuts; sustainability; pigeon peas; agricultural production; Malawi; Africa; Eastern Africa |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fpr:othbrf:148738 |
| By: | Lee, Goeun; Beatty, Timothy |
| Keywords: | Health Economics And Policy, Environmental Economics And Policy, Agricultural And Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343622 |
| By: | Evans, Alecia; Sesmero, Juan Pablo |
| Keywords: | Agribusiness, Agricultural And Food Policy, Industrial Organization |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343956 |
| By: | Rahman, Rajib; Rojas, Christian |
| Keywords: | Industrial Organization, Agricultural And Food Policy, Marketing |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:344019 |
| By: | Yoon, Chaebeen; Li, Qingxiao |
| Keywords: | Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, Food Security And Poverty, Agricultural And Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343730 |
| By: | Haqiqi, Iman |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics And Policy, Land Economics/Use, International Relations/Trade |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:344026 |
| By: | Li, Wei; Kafle, Kashi |
| Keywords: | International Development, Marketing, Consumer/ Household Economics |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343585 |
| By: | Benin, Samuel |
| Abstract: | This paper analyzes the determinants of the composition of government agriculture expenditure (GAE) in Africa and estimates the effect of the composition on agricultural productivity using cross-country annual data from 2014 to 2020 and structural equations modeling methods. It includes different specifications of the explanatory variables to assess the sensitivity of the results to different assumptions of the conceptual variables that are hypothesized to affect the composition and pathways of impact of government expenditure. The results show that there is a wide variation in GAE across African countries, and few have achieved the 10 percent CAADP agriculture expenditure target. Most African countries spend much smaller proportions of the national budget on agriculture than the sector’s share in the economy, and total agriculture expenditure seems to be allocated across subsectors according to their relative contribution to the sector’s output, with forestry and fisheries being slightly favored compared with crops and livestock, which dominate the sector. The allocation is also affected by several factors, such as past output and size of the subsector, official development assistance, education, irrigation, and state of agricultural transformation, although there are cross-subsector differences in their influence. There are also subsector differences in the estimated effect of GAE on land productivity: 0.06 to 0.08 for expenditure on the total sector, 0.02 for research, 0 to 0.09 for crops, 0 to 0.08 for livestock, and 0 to 0.07 for fisheries. The lower bound of zero means that the estimated effect is not statistically significant in some of the model specifications, such as whether cross-subsector expenditure effects are considered. We discuss implications of the results and suggestions for future research. |
| Keywords: | agricultural productivity; agriculture; CAADP; data; expenditure; Africa |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fpr:ifprid:2260 |
| By: | Long, Yanxu |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics And Policy, Land Economics/Use, Consumer/ Household Economics |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343872 |
| By: | Zhang, Yifei; Goodwin, Barry K. |
| Keywords: | International Relations/Trade, Agricultural And Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343912 |
| By: | Schmidt, Emily; Mugabo, Serge; Rosenbach, Gracie |
| Abstract: | The Government of Rwanda continues to work to accelerate structural transformation to expand and diversify the country’s economy. High rural population density and small agricultural landholdings are driving workers from agricultural households to seek employment outside of farming. Using representative data on agricultural production and employment for rural households in Rwanda from 2022, this research evaluates the opportunities rural households have to diversify their labor portfolios. We find that, rather than nonfarm household enterprises developing to meet greater rural service and goods demand, agriculture wage labor is the dominant source of off-own-farm employment. However, such informal agricultural wage labor is seen as low-productivity work and is among the lowest paid. Among nonfarm employment options, nonfarm businesses generate less income than nonagricultural wage labor, likely reflecting high barriers to entrepreneurship and low demand for off-farm services in rural areas. In contrast to employment profiles from other low-income countries, we find that the probability of a worker from an agricultural household in Rwanda engaging in rural, off-farm wage labor decreases as household welfare increases. Agricultural households that have workers seeking to hire out their labor tend to have the smallest landholdings, while households that hire in labor have the largest landholdings. Additionally, households with a higher share of members who completed primary education are less likely to hire out their labor, especially for agriculture wage work. These results suggest that programs that offer support services to agricultural households, such as financial services and affordable and relevant education, may be important in incentivizing these households to engage in entrepreneurship and form their own businesses or to seek wage employment in more remunerative sectors than agriculture. |
| Keywords: | Africa; Eastern Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; Rwanda; agricultural production; economic aspects; employment; welfare; education; land ownership |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fpr:rsspwp:13 |
| By: | Swanson, Andrew C. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural And Food Policy, Environmental Economics And Policy, Resource/Energy Economics And Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:344074 |
| By: | Imbulana, Upali; Aheeyar, Mohamed; Amarasinghe, Upali A.; Amarnath, Giriraj |
| Abstract: | Village irrigation systems (ViSs) are vital in rural livelihood, food, and water security. VISs include small (minor) tanks and diversions (anicuts). The hydrologically linked tanks with natural drainage patterns form cascades, and beyond food and water security, they play a significant role in mitigating flood and drought impacts on communities in river basins. With anthropogenic changes, many cascades are in depilated states now. This paper finds that policy support with legal recognition to cascade-based community-level institutions promote bottom-up water and natural resources management approaches. They also facilitate investigations of ill-defined subject areas in cascade management and complex socio-political and economic issues and challenges constraining sustainable cascade based VISs operations. |
| Keywords: | Agribusiness, Community/Rural/Urban Development |
| Date: | 2023–12–01 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:iwmirp:344115 |
| By: | Chang, Hung-Hao; Hsieh, Yi-Ting |
| Keywords: | Labor And Human Capital, Agricultural And Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343586 |
| By: | Honey, Ummey; Cuffey, Joel |
| Keywords: | Agricultural And Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:344070 |
| By: | Giacomo Roberto Lupi (University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy and SEEDS) |
| Abstract: | The paper explores the impact of artisanal and small-scale mining on agricultural land use in Liberia between 2013 and 2019 using a difference-in-differences methodology. The main findings indicate that households near mines tend to use more land for agriculture after the mines open. The paper also identifies a positive impact on households’ wealth. |
| Date: | 2024–03 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:srt:wpaper:0324 |
| By: | Richards, Timothy J.; Paudel, Ujjwol |
| Keywords: | Industrial Organization, Labor And Human Capital, Agricultural And Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343648 |
| By: | Dorosh, Paul A.; Mustafa, Shoumi; Kabir, Razin Iqbal; Shaima, Nabila Afrin |
| Abstract: | The “Foresight for Food Markets: Developing and Implementing Market Forecasting Methods/Models with Hands-on Training at the FPMU†is an element of Integrated Food Policy Research Program (IFPRP). Originally signed in 2016 between the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) and the Joint Venture (JV) comprising the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the Bangladesh Institute of the Development Studies (BIDS), and the University of Illinois, IFPRP was extended and modified in subsequent periods. The most recent updated contract between the GoB and the JV was signed in mid-2022. Deliverable 4.3, Foresight for Food Markets: Developing and Implementing Market Forecasting Methods/Models with Hands-on Training at the FPMU is one of the new deliverables included in the updated contract. Rising prices of essential commodities affect consumer welfare and pose a serious challenge to the Government of Bangladesh. Knowing prices of essentials in advance would allow the government to take necessary measures to restrain the extent of price increases or to mitigate effects of rising prices; such measures could include provisions of direct distributions of rice and wheat through social safety net programs or of subsidized open market sales on the one hand and engaging in direct imports of essentials or easing import restrictions for the private sector, on the other. Because price fluctuations are a feature of a free market, there is a persistent need for the government to be able to project consumer prices in advance. Accordingly, it is important that in addition to receiving estimates prepared by external experts, the government has the ability to obtain its own price projections; the government should have the estimates when it needs them and for commodities for which such information is needed. Against this backdrop, IFPRP is providing hands-on training on price projection techniques to officials from the Food Planning and Monitoring Unit (FPMU), the Directorate General of Food (DG Food), and the Ministry of Food (MoFood). It is envisioned that trained officials from the DG Food, the Ministry of Food, and mostly from the FPMU will produce price projection estimates on their own with IFPRP personnel helping a consultative capacity. |
| Keywords: | BANGLADESH, SOUTH ASIA, ASIA, capacity development; food policies; forecasting; prices |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fpr:ifprpp:13 |
| By: | Vaiknoras, Kate A. |
| Keywords: | Production Economics, Productivity Analysis, Crop Production/Industries |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343609 |
| By: | Lambrecht, Isabel; Pechtl, Sarah; Mardonova, Mohru; Akramov, Kamiljon T. |
| Abstract: | Household survey data from February-March 2023 and February-March 2015 were analyzed to document changes in welfare of households in twelve districts of Khatlon Province, USAID’s Zone of Influence (ZOI), over the last eight years. Key findings: • Housing conditions improved, indicating improved living conditions. Only 1 percent of households had improved sanitation in 2015, but nearly half (49 percent) of all households did so in 2023. • Total consumption expenditures on food, non-food, and durables increased nearly 10 percent (in real terms) between 2015 and 2023 • Expenditures on food increased, but these were used to purchase more expensive food rather than improving dietary quality. This led to a stagnation in diet diversity among women of which 70 percent have inadequate dietary diversity. Household consumption patterns do show improvements over time. • Poverty declined by about 10.4 percent, but movements of households in and out of poverty between 2015 and 2023 suggest that a significant share of households are at risk of falling back into poverty in the face of adversity. • Correlates with consumption expenditures and poverty demonstrate that households with more household members, with fewer livelihood sources, and in more remote locations are worse off. Households with more women are more likely to be poor given women’s limited income generating opportunities. • Households that participated in agricultural development activities were approximately 12.7 percent less likely to be poor than other households. Recommended actions The findings underscore the importance of the priorities specified in the Government of Tajikistan’s Agri-Food System and Sustainable Development Program (ASDP), specifically strategic priority 4 on food security and safety, and motivate the following policy recommendations: • Continue to support healthy diets through improved access to food as well as behavior change communication related to dietary diversity and consuming healthy food. • Further research should serve to understand pathways to lifting farmers out of poverty, including analyzing what works and why when implementing agricultural interventions. • Continued efforts are needed to mitigate women's disproportionate susceptibility to poverty and their vulnerability to poverty-induced outcomes. |
| Keywords: | Tajikistan; Asia; Central Asia; Asia; foods; housing; surveys; consumption; households; welfare; hygiene; livelihoods; agricultural development; diet; poverty |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fpr:ceaspb:140310 |
| By: | Babu, Suresh; Tohirzoda, Sino; Akramov, Kamiljon; Srivastava, Nandita; Aliev, Jovidon |
| Abstract: | The Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Food Systems, and Climate Action endorsed by over 150 countries at UNFCCC-COP28 highlights global recognition of the unprecedented adverse climate impacts on food systems resilience and the need to expedite the integration of agriculture and food systems into climate action. While integration is necessary to ensure favorable sectoral level climate action outcomes, there are currently no concrete frameworks and case studies showcasing how to support this integration process at the country level. A recent study focused on Tajikistan uses a conceptual framework to undertake such an integration analysis of key national level climate change related and agriculture policy documents. It identifies synergies and existing gaps and provides recommendations on strengthening sectoral integration to achieve climate change goals. This study was funded by the USAID mission in Tajikistan and USAID’s Comprehensive Action for Climate Change Initiative (CACCI)-Asia under their support to the Committee for Environmental Protection (CEP) of Tajikistan toward the implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) through technical support from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). |
| Keywords: | agrifood systems; climate change; policies; rice; Tajikistan; Asia; Central Asia |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fpr:ceaspb:141640 |
| By: | Lambrecht, Isabel; Pechtl, Sarah; Aliev, Jovidon; Akramov, Kamiljon T.; Khakimov, Parviz |
| Abstract: | Survey data from 2000 households in 12 districts of Khatlon Province, USAID’s Zone of Influence (ZOI), were analyzed to document changes in the agriculture sector between 2015 and 2023. Key findings • Participation in agriculture remained constant at 85 percent of households, yet the average cultivated area significantly decreased from 2015 to 2023, likely due to the parallel increase in the number of households in the study area as well as the further division of dehkan farms. • Cropping patterns have changed since 2015. Among others, we find a stark increase in cultivation of maize, whereas cotton is grown at similar frequency but on a significantly smaller average plot area. Overall, we observe a positive increase in the diversity of (semi-)annual crops. • Mechanization is used for land preparation of plots for nearly all major crops now, up from much lower levels in 2015. Mechanization for harvesting significantly increased on plots with fodder crops (from 6 percent to 15 percent) and maize plots (from 2 percent to 8 percent). Most households rely on rental services as few own the needed machinery. • More households have water pumps, greenhouses, and cold storage, and more household and presidential plots having irrigation in 2023 than in 2015. Agricultural innovations including drip irrigation and solar panels also emerge but are still implemented at very low levels ( |
| Keywords: | Tajikistan; Asia; Central Asia; Asia; poultry; agricultural production; surveys; cotton; cattle; households; maize; field size; mechanization |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fpr:ceaspb:140191 |
| By: | Huang, Faith |
| Keywords: | Agricultural And Food Policy, Food Security And Poverty, Health Economics And Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343552 |
| By: | Du, Xiaodong; Dong, Fengxia |
| Keywords: | Crop Production/Industries, Production Economics, Research Methods/Statistical Methods |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343786 |
| By: | Raburn, Samuel |
| Keywords: | Crop Production/Industries, Agribusiness |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343623 |
| By: | Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW); International Water Management Institute (IWMI). |
| Abstract: | The critical interlinkages among the food, land, and water (FLW) systems are complex and context-specific. There has been limited research on how policies governing one resource have deep implications for the other linked resources. Further, the process of developing policies is highly complex, and each evolves differently. In addition, policy changes are implemented in response to socio-cultural, economic, environmental, and political changes. Thus, individual policies may develop conflicting priorities and effects. To ensure the effectiveness of national policies and strategies, it is crucial to gather context-specific evidence on the coherence between policies governing FLW systems and address points of incoherence. Policy coherence is important to identify and strengthen synergies across economic, social, and environmental policy areas and address any trade-offs1 between them to align domestic policy objectives with internationally agreed objectives. The study offers key evidence-based recommendations to address the identified gaps and challenges in the selected national policies, which are essential for enhancing policy coherence. |
| Keywords: | Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, Food Security and Poverty |
| Date: | 2023–12–31 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:iwmirp:344117 |
| By: | Chowdhury, Antara |
| Keywords: | Community/Rural/Urban Development, Consumer/Household Economics, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, Food Security and Poverty |
| Date: | 2024–07–10 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:ncrcrd:344110 |
| By: | Lambrecht, Isabel; Pechtl, Sarah; Mardonova, Mohru; Akramov, Kamiljon T. |
| Abstract: | Household survey data from February-March 2023 and February-March 2015 were analyzed to document changes in welfare of households in twelve districts of Khatlon Province, USAID’s Zone of Influence (ZOI), over the last eight years. Key findings: • Housing conditions improved, indicating improved living conditions. Only 1 percent of households had improved sanitation in 2015, but nearly half (49 percent) of all households did so in 2023. • Total consumption expenditures on food, non-food, and durables increased nearly 10 percent (in real terms) between 2015 and 2023 • Expenditures on food increased, but these were used to purchase more expensive food rather than improving dietary quality. This led to a stagnation in diet diversity among women of which 70 percent have inadequate dietary diversity. Household consumption patterns do show improvements over time. • Poverty declined by about 10.4 percent, but movements of households in and out of poverty between 2015 and 2023 suggest that a significant share of households are at risk of falling back into poverty in the face of adversity. • Correlates with consumption expenditures and poverty demonstrate that households with more household members, with fewer livelihood sources, and in more remote locations are worse off. Households with more women are more likely to be poor given women’s limited income generating opportunities. • Households that participated in agricultural development activities were approximately 12.7 percent less likely to be poor than other households. Recommended actions The findings underscore the importance of the priorities specified in the Government of Tajikistan’s Agri-Food System and Sustainable Development Program (ASDP), specifically strategic priority 4 on food security and safety, and motivate the following policy recommendations: • Continue to support healthy diets through improved access to food as well as behavior change communication related to dietary diversity and consuming healthy food. • Further research should serve to understand pathways to lifting farmers out of poverty, including analyzing what works and why when implementing agricultural interventions. • Continued efforts are needed to mitigate women's disproportionate susceptibility to poverty and their vulnerability to poverty-induced outcomes. |
| Keywords: | Tajikistan; Asia; Central Asia; Asia; foods; housing; surveys; consumption; households; welfare; hygiene; livelihoods; agricultural development; diet; poverty |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fpr:ceaspb:140310t |
| By: | Babu, Suresh; Tohirzoda, Sino; Akramov, Kamiljon; Srivastava, Nandita; Aliev, Jovidon |
| Abstract: | The Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Food Systems, and Climate Action endorsed by over 150 countries at UNFCCC-COP28 highlights global recognition of the unprecedented adverse climate impacts on food systems resilience and the need to expedite the integration of agriculture and food systems into climate action. While integration is necessary to ensure favorable sectoral level climate action outcomes, there are currently no concrete frameworks and case studies showcasing how to support this integration process at the country level. A recent study focused on Tajikistan uses a conceptual framework to undertake such an integration analysis of key national level climate change related and agriculture policy documents. It identifies synergies and existing gaps and provides recommendations on strengthening sectoral integration to achieve climate change goals. This study was funded by the USAID mission in Tajikistan and USAID’s Comprehensive Action for Climate Change Initiative (CACCI)-Asia under their support to the Committee for Environmental Protection (CEP) of Tajikistan toward the implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) through technical support from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). |
| Keywords: | agrifood systems; climate change; policies; rice; Tajikistan; Asia; Central Asia |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fpr:ceaspb:141640t |
| By: | Long, Yanxu |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics And Policy, Land Economics/Use, International Development |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343677 |
| By: | Chowdhury, Reajul Alam; Alam, Md. Monjurul; Ali, Md. Rostom; Awal, Abdul; Hossain, Shahadat; Kalita, Prasanta Kumar; Saha, Chayan Kumer; Winter-Nelson, Alex |
| Abstract: | Unprecedented growth in rice production in Bangladesh over the last four decades has outpaced the capacity of post-harvest operations, resulting in substantial grain losses. While production technology has changed dramatically over time, there has been relatively little private investment in transforming storage capacity in the country. This paper explores the lack of widespread private investment in improved grain storage and examines the potential for public support to stimulate greater private sector investment in modern storage. We calculate the returns to investment in bulk grain silos and hermetic cocoons that could upgrade warehouse storage, and calculate the grain loss that conversion to those technologies would prevent. We then assess the public support that would be required to trigger private investment in modern storage systems. Our analysis shows that storage in jute bags in warehouses or homes outperforms the modern technologies in terms of financial returns at observed prices. Our analysis further shows that given the observed price changes during the harvest and post-harvest periods from 2008 to 2018, cocoon and silo storage as well as conventional warehouse storage were unprofitable in most years and on average overall. Although seasonal variation in market prices for paddy is sometimes pronounced, the pattern of the variation is not sufficiently large or consistent to make paddy storage reliably profitable. Conventional warehouse storage implied an average loss of BDT 2, 877/MT/season over the 20 seasons considered. Use of modern storage methods would have implied average losses of BDT 3, 200/MT/season to BDT 4, 950/MT/season, depending on technology used. These results imply that a public sector co-investment on the order of BDT 300/MT would be required to trigger a shift from conventional to modern storage by traders or millers. This shift would imply a reduction in grain loss of 30kg to 80kg per MT stored for a public cost of BDT 3.75 to BDT 10.00 per kilogram of loss avoided. To make it profitable for intermediaries to provide commercial storage services to farmers who currently store on-farm would require a much larger co-investment of about BDT 3, 200/MT stored, implying BDT 40 to BDT 106 per kilogram of loss avoided. Removal of import tariffs on storage technologies or realization of a price premium for silo-stored or hermetically stored grain could be sufficient to encourage millers to adopt modern storage, but would be inadequate to trigger increased off-farm storage as an independent activity. There is anecdotal evidence of a price premium for paddy that has been stored using improved technology. Existence of such a premium could significantly reduce public support needed to trigger private investment in improved storage. |
| Keywords: | BANGLADESH, SOUTH ASIA, ASIA, crop production; food storage; investment; rice |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fpr:ifprpp:12 |
| By: | Ponieman, Karen D.; Bongiovanni, Rodolfo; Battaglia, Martin L.; Hilbert, Jorge A.; Cipriotti, Pablo A.; Espósito, Gabriel |
| Abstract: | The agricultural stage is a hotspot in the carbon footprint (CF) of the production of corn bioethanol and, within this stage, the production and use of nitrogen fertilisers is the subprocess that has the greatest incidence. The current research project aims to incorporate the environmental impacts in the analysis of optimum nitrogen fertiliser rates, in addition to the agricultural and economic outputs that have been widely used in previous studies. We seek to obtain functions that describe the CF at different nitrogen rates, topographic positions and climatic conditions, incorporating them as objective functions in multiobjective optimization procedures. In order to achieve this aim, the first step is to quantify the corn bioethanol CF with Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology, for fertilisation and yield data at a site-specific scale. On-farm research trials were conducted in 18 corn fields where agricultural producers applied up to 6 levels of strip nitrogen fertilisation, through an elevation gradient, in 5 crop seasons distributed over 12 years, in the centre-south region of Córdoba province, Argentina. The corn transportation and its industrial process were considered as fixed subsystems for this research. The LCA methodology follows the ISO 14067:2018 standard and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) guidelines (2019). The R software was used to process the large datasets. A bioethanol corn CF map at a site-specific scale was achieved. As opposed to a single CF value per field, assessing the CF at a site-specific scale allows us to explore the within-field variability caused by different input rates, its interaction with environmental factors and crop yields. Spatial and temporal statistical analysis is needed to understand the relation between nitrogen fertilisation and corn bioethanol CF. Furthermore, we expect to consider the function that best represents this relation in the definition of optimum site-specific nitrogen rate. |
| Keywords: | Climate Change, Crop Production/Industries, Farm Management, Sustainability |
| Date: | 2023–09–19 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:haaepa:344397 |
| By: | Katuwal, Hari |
| Keywords: | Food Security And Poverty, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:344006 |
| By: | Tian, Guang; Mitchell, Paul D. |
| Keywords: | Production Economics, Agribusiness, Crop Production/Industries |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343533 |
| By: | Arndt, Channing; Fritschel, Heidi; Headey, Derek D.; Iruhiriye, Elyse; Jones, Eleanor; Martin, Will; Menon, Purnima; Resnick, Danielle; Suri, Shoba; Vos, Rob; Zorbas, Christina |
| Abstract: | Since the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015, heads of state and ministers at global convenings have repeatedly expressed commitments in support of achieving SDG2 — Zero Hunger — by 2030. Yet progress toward SDG2 has stalled, owing to economic slowdowns, unforeseen crises, geopolitical conflict, and lackluster investment in agricultural productivity and open trade. Where have commitments to SDG2 fallen short? While SDG2 calls for ending global hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition by 2030, this brief predominantly focuses on progress and commitments related to hunger and food insecurity. Drawing on the results of two recent studies, the policy brief (1) discusses trends and setbacks toward reducing hunger and food insecurity, (2) analyzes progress on the “means of implementation, †or mix of finances, technology, and policy choices, to address SDG2, (3) assesses 107 commitment statements in support of SDG2 made at 68 global meetings since 2015, and (4) explores how to improve accountability in the commitment-making process to accelerate progress toward Zero Hunger. |
| Keywords: | food security; food policies; hunger; governance; nutrition |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fpr:polbrf:july2024 |
| By: | Shin, Hyeseon |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics And Policy, International Relations/Trade, Labor And Human Capital |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343657 |
| By: | Boukaka, Sedi Anne; Azzarri, Carlo; Davis, Kristin E. |
| Abstract: | The report’s main objective is to describe socio-economic conditions and agricultural systems in the survey areas. It provides a baseline assessment characterizing the main agricultural and socioeconomic challenges within the surveyed localities, and to inform the array of research interventions currently underway. Furthermore, the study will provide a baseline for estimating the impacts of NATURE+ (including waste management, water management, development or a resilient seed system, development of value chains for neglected and underutilized species, participatory varietal selection, encouragement of designs for increasing agrobiodiversity, etc.) on inclusion, poverty reduction, as well as on food security, livelihoods, and jobs. The report is structured as follows: Section 2 presents detailed information on the survey design, its coverage and implementation. Sections 3 and 4 discuss the main analytical results of the report, separately for the household and the workers survey, respectively. Finally, section 5 concludes. |
| Keywords: | agriculture; agrobiodiversity; land degradation; nutrition; sustainability; surveys; Vitenam; Asia; South-eastern Asia |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fpr:cgiarp:149125 |
| By: | Ponieman, Karen D.; Bongiovanni, Rodolfo; Battaglia, Martin L.; Hilbert, Jorge A.; Cipriotti, Pablo A.; Espósito, Gabriel |
| Abstract: | The agricultural stage is a hotspot in the carbon footprint (CF) of the production of corn bioethanol and, within this stage, the production and use of nitrogen fertilisers is the subprocess that has the greatest incidence. The current research project aims to incorporate the environmental impacts in the analysis of optimum nitrogen fertiliser rates, in addition to the agricultural and economic outputs that have been widely used in previous studies. We seek to obtain functions that describe the CF at different nitrogen rates, topographic positions and climatic conditions, incorporating them as objective functions in multiobjective optimization procedures. In order to achieve this aim, the first step is to quantify the corn bioethanol CF with Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology, for fertilisation and yield data at a site-specific scale. On-farm research trials were conducted in 18 corn fields where agricultural producers applied up to 6 levels of strip nitrogen fertilisation, through an elevation gradient, in 5 crop seasons distributed over 12 years, in the centre-south region of Córdoba province, Argentina. The corn transportation and its industrial process were considered as fixed subsystems for this research. The LCA methodology follows the ISO 14067:2018 standard and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) guidelines (2019). The R software was used to process the large datasets. A bioethanol corn CF map at a site-specific scale was achieved. As opposed to a single CF value per field, assessing the CF at a site-specific scale allows us to explore the within-field variability caused by different input rates, its interaction with environmental factors and crop yields. Spatial and temporal statistical analysis is needed to understand the relation between nitrogen fertilisation and corn bioethanol CF. Furthermore, we expect to consider the function that best represents this relation in the definition of optimum site-specific nitrogen rate. |
| Keywords: | Climate Change, Crop Production/Industries, Farm Management, Sustainability |
| Date: | 2023–09–19 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:haaewp:344397 |
| By: | Sandrine Benoist (VALLOREM - Val de Loire Recherche en Management - UO - Université d'Orléans - UT - Université de Tours) |
| Keywords: | Farmers, Strategies, Contestation, Rurality, Profesional practice, Anger, Collective, French farmers, Profesional identity, Agriculteurs, Agricultrices, Agriculture, Colère, Pratiques professionnelles, Ruralité, Stratégies, Ressources, Mobilisation, Collectif, Identités professionnelles |
| Date: | 2024–01–28 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04422349 |
| By: | Jo, Haeun |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics And Policy, Industrial Organization |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343656 |
| By: | Rashid, Shahidur; Mustafa, Shoumi; Kabir, Razin Iqbal; Shaima, Nabila Afrin |
| Abstract: | This report has been prepared as one of the deliverables of the Bangladesh Integrated Food Policy Research Program (BIFPRP) implemented by the Ministry of Food, Government of Bangladesh under a World Investment for Modernizing Food Storages Facilities in the country. The key arguments and recommendations drawn up for the report are based on both quantitative and qualitative data. Food and agricultural policies have historically played a crucial role in triggering growth in many developing countries. While there were debates, public procurement and distribution of food are widely accepted as a “second best†solutions for countries characterized by markets and institutional failures. However, Bangladesh has done remarkably well in adjusting to changing realities and the country is now widely recognized for its agricultural policy reforms. But there is still room for further improvement and efficiency gains for which two broad sets of recommendation can be considered: Pricing and procurement targets - Pricing in Bangladesh continues to be based on the average cost of production but with the application of satellite imageries, app-based small area estimation, the procurement price estimates can be improved substantially. Also, the current procurement target determination formula misses out on some key aspects of production, marketing, and macroeconomic parameters. The quota for each upazila is based on total production and milling capacities but it also needs to consider the net surplus to calculate how much could be procured in each Upazilas. Alternative procurement modalities a) The report recommends changing this modality to Delivered to Destination Warehouse (DDW) through the open tendering method and undertaking pilots and learning from experiences to enhance efficiency can be important. b) Linking smallholders to markets through product aggregation has received renewed attention globally. Available data suggests that Bangladesh’s public procurement has thus far not managed to effectively integrate small farmers to its procurement system. To scale up nationally, we believe that more innovation in technology and a new institutional set up will be necessary. c) Implementing Delivered Duty Paid Modality on a pilot basis where the seller assumes all responsibilities and costs for delivering the goods to the named place of destination. d) Piloting Deficiency Payment Method as an effective method to provide both income and price to farmers of a wide range of agricultural commodities. Two key instruments of implementing this method would be Marketing Assistance Loan (MAL) and the Loan Deficiency Payment (LDP), which are tools available to the farmers. A recent report by the NITI Aayog of India also makes a strong case for this procurement modality and we also argue in favor of undertaking this pilot. |
| Keywords: | BANGLADESH, SOUTH ASIA, ASIA, price policies; agricultural production; markets; supply balance; smallholders |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fpr:ifprpp:16 |
| By: | Bolotova, Yuliya |
| Keywords: | Agribusiness, Livestock Production/Industries |
| Date: | 2024–07–01 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:344128 |
| By: | Short, Gianna |
| Keywords: | Agricultural Finance, Research Methods/Statistical Methods |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343951 |
| By: | Choe, Kyoungin; Goodwin, Barry K. |
| Keywords: | Risk And Uncertainty, Agricultural Finance, Agribusiness |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343733 |
| By: | Mustafa, Shoumi; Ali, A. M. M. Shawkat; Islam, Kazi Nurul; Dorosh, Paul A.; Rashid, Shahidur; Shaima, Nabila Afrin |
| Abstract: | This study conducts an assessment of the current mandates, performance, and capacity gaps of the Directorate General of Food (DG Food) and suggests remedies to strengthen the agency. Formed originally as the Supply Department in undivided Bengal under British rule in the early 1940s, the organization was named the Directorate General of Food by the provincial government of East Pakistan in 1956. Upon the independence of Bangladesh in 1971, DG Food became a part of the Ministry of Food and Civil Supplies and was later renamed as the Directorate General of Food in 1975. The last major reorganization of the agency took place in 1984. The current mandates and organogram are from 1984. As the custodian of the Public Food Distribution System (PFDS), DG Food plays an important role for the Government of Bangladesh (GoB). Under the Social Safety Net Programs (SSNP) of the GoB, DG Food ensures food security for vulnerable populations. In its sprawling countrywide network of 650-plus traditional warehouses, DG Food has an effective storage capacity of 1.9 million tons. In recent years, DG Food has procured and distributed approximately 3.0 million tons of foodgrains per year. A very large organization, DG Food has a sanctioned workforce of over 13, 000 officers and employees, and an annual budget of approximately 1.5 billion U.S. dollars. |
| Keywords: | BANGLADESH, SOUTH ASIA, ASIA, capacity assessment; food security; rice; wheat |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fpr:ifprpp:14 |
| By: | Song, H.; Sarange, C.; Oderoh, A.; Dahl, Hauke; Jacobs-Mata, Inga |
| Abstract: | 1.5 billion people live in fragility and conflict-affected settings (FCAS) and they face an increased risk of food insecurity and poverty trap. A systems approach in collaboration with innovators in FCAS is needed to produce practical and inclusive solutions that can improve the resilience of food, land, and water systems (FLWS). CGIAR is in the unique position to produce transformative policies, programming, and market strategies to bring science-driven innovation to improve resilience among FCA communities and create a bridge between the humanitarian, development, and peace (HDP) nexus. This market report conducts a market assessment across 14 countries in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia to inform a science-driven acceleration programme to scale CGIAR innovations in FCAS. The analysis in the report is from a newly developed database on FLWS-HDP innovation ecosystem actors, which includes 600+ innovator data covering 90+ solution types and 200+ funding supporters, including investors, governments, NGOs, hubs, and other collaborative ecosystem enablers. Additionally, the report draws insights from consultations with experts in the ecosystem ranging from CGIAR practitioners to innovation hubs and innovators (Chapter 1). The ecosystem mapping shows that the FLWS-HDP innovation ecosystem is still nascent in many FCA countries, and is largely concentrated on food production. Water resources, migration, and anticipatory action innovations only take up 20% of all innovations. Financial support to enable private innovators has been rising and 25% of the innovators mapped in the selected countries have raised funding amounting to over $330M as of November 2023, with investors from the private sector paving the way and with public-private partnerships (PPPs) increasingly playing an important role. Funding support from private investors and PPPs support early-stage innovation development by creating hubs, de-risking funding by co-investing with the private sector, and directly providing financial support to the innovators. International donors, governments and investors from the Global North are also prevalent in the ecosystem as 90% of actors supporting innovators are from outside the FCA countries. Local actors often work with international actors to implement programmes, co-invest, and help source high-impact innovators. There is little evidence of international research organisations’ activities in the FCAS so far (Chapter 2). Developing a sustainable FLWS-HDP innovation ecosystem in FCAS is met with challenges related to limited infrastructural resources, value chain disruptions, and heightened security risks. However, opportunities also exist, especially when innovators flexibly adapt innovations to address local challenges, and in settings where the solutions become tools to better facilitate and coordinate humanitarian, government, and private sector initiatives. Hence, supporting private sector innovation should prioritise localising solutions for the specific context to increase longerterm sustainability. Research organisations should support by developing systems to bring science to sector value chains and becoming expert support for innovators. Lastly, partnerships with governments, local actors, and international NGOs should be leveraged to bring innovations to tackle local challenges (Chapter 3). Finally, he report provides an overview of the macroeconomic and FCA context and an analysis of the FLW-HDP innovation ecosystem for each of the 14 countries The country overviews highlight that each country has a unique set of challenges and opportunities for developing a resilient innovation ecosystem, yet there are strong signals that innovators, support initiatives, and actors are making an impact in improving the conditions for FLW and HDP systems in FCA contexts (Chapter 4). |
| Keywords: | Food Security and Poverty, International Development, Land Economics/Use |
| Date: | 2023–12–31 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:iwmirp:344119 |
| By: | Cai, Qingyin; Li, Qingxiao |
| Keywords: | Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, Consumer/ Household Economics, Institutional And Behavioral Economics |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343820 |
| By: | Choe, Kyoungin; Goodwin, Barry K. |
| Keywords: | Risk And Uncertainty, Agricultural Finance, Agribusiness |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343732 |
| By: | Bolotova, Yuliya |
| Keywords: | Industrial Organization, Marketing, Livestock Production/Industries |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343553 |
| By: | Kim, Da Eun; Ellison, Brenna |
| Keywords: | Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, Consumer/ Household Economics |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343811 |
| By: | Stéphan Marette (UMR PSAE - Paris-Saclay Applied Economics - AgroParisTech - Université Paris-Saclay - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement); Caroline Lejars (UMR G-EAU - Gestion de l'Eau, Acteurs, Usages - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - BRGM - Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - AgroParisTech - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - Institut Agro Montpellier - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement); Diane Briard (DIAGONAL - Direction Appui au Pilotage - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement); Christophe Chassard (UMRF - Unité Mixte de Recherche sur le Fromage - VAS - VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - UCA - Université Clermont Auvergne); Véronique Decroocq (BFP - Biologie du fruit et pathologie - UB - Université de Bordeaux - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement); Mariette Ducatez (IHAP - Interactions hôtes-agents pathogènes [Toulouse] - ENVT - Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse - Toulouse INP - Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) - UT - Université de Toulouse - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement); Esther Dzale Yeumo (GenEval); Alexandra Jullien (ECOSYS - Ecologie fonctionnelle et écotoxicologie des agroécosystèmes - AgroParisTech - Université Paris-Saclay - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement); François Jullien (Association Dé-coïncidences); Eric Justes (Cirad-PERSYST - Département Performances des systèmes de production et de transformation tropicaux - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement); Thibaut Malausa (INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement, UniCA - Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique); Fabrice Martin-Laurent (Agroécologie [Dijon] - UB - Université de Bourgogne - UBFC - Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - Institut Agro Dijon - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement); Jean-Denis Mathias (UR LISC - Laboratoire d'ingénierie pour les systèmes complexes - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement); Pierre Pétriacq (BFP - Biologie du fruit et pathologie - UB - Université de Bordeaux - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement); Juliette Riquet (GenPhySE - Génétique Physiologie et Systèmes d'Elevage - ENVT - Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse - Toulouse INP - Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) - UT - Université de Toulouse - ENSAT - École nationale supérieure agronomique de Toulouse - Toulouse INP - Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) - UT - Université de Toulouse - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement); Sloan Salètes (Cirad-Dgdrs - Direction Générale Déléguée à la Recherche et à la Stratégie - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement, Vitropic S.A.); Alexia Stokes (Inrae, UMR AMAP - Botanique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des Végétations - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - IRD [France-Sud] - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - UM - Université de Montpellier); Anne Trémier (UR OPAALE - Optimisation des procédés en Agriculture, Agroalimentaire et Environnement - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement); Nathalie Vachiery (UMR ASTRE - Animal, Santé, Territoires, Risques et Ecosystèmes - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement) |
| Abstract: | The great fragility of ecosystems supporting food production requires alternative ways of thinking regarding the scientific research, as well as a bold analysis of public policies to be implemented to feed the planet, in an environment that would become hostile to agricultural production. In order to preserve the food ecosystems essential to human development, this book presents anticipatory visions and prospective analyzes based on the concept of "de-coincidence", developed by the philosopher François Jullien. This search for a creative sense, freed from the coincidences of common sense, from the "déjà vu", invites us to rethink the methods of organizing research in agronomy or in the field of the environment in order to encourage initiatives that go off the beaten track. Implementing new forms of research organization is necessary. It is also important to consider "worst" scenarios, in particular by imagining extreme configurations for the future, in which food production would become impossible in a "natural" environment. In order to define innovative solutions and effective public policies, this work offers three "de-coincident" essays aimed at designing pathways that would make it possible to prepare for the transformations to come. The first essay discusses institutional solutions for promoting de-coincident research. The next one focuses on a fictitious "worst-case" scenario in a context of extreme global warming. Eventually, the last essay analyzes what we can do "right now" to brace for "the worst" and prevent certain crises from occurring. |
| Abstract: | La très grande fragilité des écosystèmes supportant la production alimentaire nécessite une réflexion alternative sur les orientations de la recherche scientifique, ainsi qu'une analyse audacieuse des politiques publiques à mettre en œuvre pour nourrir la planète, dans un environnement qui deviendrait hostile à la production agricole. Afin de préserver les écosystèmes alimentaires indispensables au développement humain, ce livre présente des visions anticipatrices et des analyses prospectives relevant du concept de dé-coïncidence, développé par le philosophe François Jullien. Cette recherche d'un sens créatif affranchi des coïncidences du sens commun, du « déjà-vu », invite à repenser les modes d'organisation de la recherche en agronomie ou dans le domaine de l'environnement afin de favoriser des initiatives sortant des sentiers battus. Mettre en place de nouvelles formes de structuration de la recherche est nécessaire, de même qu'envisager le pire, notamment en imaginant de manière frontale des configurations extrêmes, dans lesquelles la production alimentaire deviendrait impossible en milieu « naturel ». Afin de définir des solutions innovantes et des politiques publiques efficaces, cet ouvrage propose trois essais dé-coïncidents visant à concevoir des cheminements qui permettraient de se préparer aux transformations à venir. Le premier essai évoque des pistes institutionnelles pour favoriser une recherche dé-coïncidente. Le suivant se focalise sur un scénario fictif « du pire » dans un contexte très dégradé par le réchauffement climatique. Enfin, le dernier essai analyse ce que nous pouvons faire « dès à présent » pour se préparer « au pire » et empêcher certaines crises d'advenir. |
| Keywords: | Dé-coïncidence |
| Date: | 2024–07–04 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04630167 |
| By: | Narayanan, Sudha; Hussain, Siraj; Rashid, Shahidur |
| Abstract: | Warehouse receipts systems (WRS) have been used to tackle multiple challenges faced by farmers. In the absence of adequate collateral and consequent credit constraints, a WRS enables the use of inventory as collateral for loans, thus removing a key constraint farmers face. With growing digital reach, electronic based Negotiable Warehouse Receipts (e-NWR) that can be swapped, exchanged and traded and can assist in deepening financial markets while maintaining the integrity of the system. While e-NWRS can potentially address farmer level constraints, they can also be viewed from a larger policy perspective as a system that aids government plans for food security and manage public procurement operations better and more nimbly; it can also play a key role for enhancing the efficiency and food quality and safety along value chains by enabling mid-stream players like traders and importers to manage these chains better. This report seeks to inform the policy process around e-NWRS by focusing on the potential of Ware house Receipt Financing, more broadly, in the agricultural development of Bangladesh. To do this we review global evidence as well as evidence closer to home, within South Asia, to understand the pre-conditions and prerequisites for a successful system. |
| Keywords: | BANGLADESH, SOUTH ASIA, ASIA, storehouses; smallholders; credit; digital agriculture; markets; policies; agricultural development |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fpr:ifprpp:15 |
| By: | Du, Qianqian; Mieno, Taro; Bullock, David S. |
| Abstract: | Accurately evaluating yield response to nitrogen can increase crop management profitability and sustainability. Many studies estimate yield response by fitting a regression model to data collected from different fields. But analysing such combined data requires that heterogeneity across fields be accounted for in the regression analysis along with the variation in input rates. This study uses data from 27 large-scale on farm experiments to test the potential danger of getting biased estimates of yield response functions. Models with and without field fixed effects are run. The yield response functions from the two models showed different slopes, which provides a visual representation of the bias resulting from the pooled estimation. Use of the Mundlak approach indicated that ignoring the endogeneity of regressors with respect to field effects leads to an unreliable estimation of yield response to N. |
| Keywords: | Crop Production/Industries, Productivity Analysis, Risk and Uncertainty |
| Date: | 2023–09–19 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:haaepa:344222 |
| By: | Wich, Hannah |
| Keywords: | Food Security And Poverty, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, Consumer/ Household Economics |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343530 |
| By: | Harou, Aurelie P.; Tamim, Abdulrazzak |
| Keywords: | Food Security And Poverty |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:344029 |
| By: | Du, Qianqian; Mieno, Taro; Bullock, David S. |
| Abstract: | Accurately evaluating yield response to nitrogen can increase crop management profitability and sustainability. Many studies estimate yield response by fitting a regression model to data collected from different fields. But analysing such combined data requires that heterogeneity across fields be accounted for in the regression analysis along with the variation in input rates. This study uses data from 27 large-scale on farm experiments to test the potential danger of getting biased estimates of yield response functions. Models with and without field fixed effects are run. The yield response functions from the two models showed different slopes, which provides a visual representation of the bias resulting from the pooled estimation. Use of the Mundlak approach indicated that ignoring the endogeneity of regressors with respect to field effects leads to an unreliable estimation of yield response to N. |
| Keywords: | Crop Production/Industries, Productivity Analysis, Risk and Uncertainty |
| Date: | 2023–09–19 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:haaewp:344222 |
| By: | Saha, Koustuv; Gulati, Kajal |
| Keywords: | Labor And Human Capital, International Development |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343578 |
| By: | Rouhi Rad, Mani; Medina, Nataly |
| Keywords: | Resource/Energy Economics And Policy, Environmental Economics And Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343866 |
| By: | Wätzold, Marlene Yu Lilin; Abdulai, Issaka; Cooke, Amanda; Krumbiegel, Katharina; Ocampo-Ariza, Carolina; Wenzel, Arne; Wollni, Meike |
| Abstract: | Voluntary sustainability standards offer potential for sustainable development by improving the livelihoods of smallholder cash crop farmers while conserving biodiversity. However, their overall implications remain poorly understood, as studies have mostly focused on assessing their effects on single sustainability dimensions. Here, we use an interdisciplinary approach to understand the simultaneous effects of sustainability standards on socioeconomic and ecological outcomes in Ghana’s cocoa sector. Our study is based on a rich dataset comprising representative household data from 814 smallholder cocoa-producing households from five major cocoa regions and ecological data from 119 cocoa plots. Results from the endogenous switching regression approach suggest that sustainability standards have positive effects on socioeconomic outcomes such as cocoa yield, net cocoa income and net returns to land. However, using generalized linear mixed effects models, we do not find any significant associations with ecological outcomes related to vegetation structure and animal diversity. Our results indicate that sustainability standards in Ghana’s cocoa sector lead to socioeconomic benefits but not to ecological benefits for the plot environment. Nevertheless, yield increases do not come at the expense of biodiversity. We conclude that sustainability standards have the potential to improve socioeconomic outcomes, without significantly creating trade-offs with ecological outcomes. |
| Keywords: | Community/Rural/Urban Development, Environmental Economics and Policy, Sustainability |
| Date: | 2024–07 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:gausfs:344223 |
| By: | Nino, Gustavo |
| Keywords: | Demand And Price Analysis, Environmental Economics And Policy, International Development |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343594 |
| By: | Lozano-Rojas, Felipe |
| Keywords: | Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, Consumer/ Household Economics |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343935 |
| By: | Lai, Tianyun; Hu, Zhepeng |
| Keywords: | Demand And Price Analysis, Agribusiness, Risk And Uncertainty |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343535 |
| By: | Alam, Md. Monjurul; Kalita, Prasanta Kumar; Saha, Chayan Kumer; Sarkar, Surajit; Winter-Nelson, Alex |
| Abstract: | Grain drying has become increasingly challenging for the Bangladesh food system as postharvest innovations have not kept pace with production growth and an increasing volume of grain is harvested during wet or foggy periods, when conventional open-air drying is problematic. This activity sought to build capacity for mechanical dryer service provision by small-scale entrepreneurs and to demonstrate a model for providing mobile grain drying services through entrepreneurs using a locally manufactured small-scale dryer. In coordination with Ministry of Food officials, the project selected 20 farmers to train as mechanized drying service providers, provided them with use of small-scale mobile batch dryers, and deployed them in rural areas from which Local Supply Depots (LSDs) source grain. The service providers were active in Bogura and Rangpur Districts in late May 2023, during the closing phases of the Boro harvest season. The pilot revealed nuances of the costs of operation and indicated potential for viable business activities, especially in areas where open-air drying is relatively costly or inadequately available. Additionally, a scoping visit to Naogaon District revealed significant interest in mechanized drying services. The findings suggest a value to additional observation of the service providers to document capacity utilization over an Aman season and a full Boro season. Such observations would allow confirmation about parameters related to annual capacity utilization which are important determinants of business viability |
| Keywords: | BANGLADESH, SOUTH ASIA, ASIA, grain; drying; food systems; postharvest technology; small enterprises |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fpr:ifprpp:17 |
| By: | Eronmwon, Iyore; Walters, Cory G. |
| Keywords: | Demand And Price Analysis, Marketing, Risk And Uncertainty |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343862 |
| By: | Koirala, Samjhana; Rollins, Kimberly S. |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics And Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343931 |