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1. Agricultural intensification: The status in six African countries

Author:
Hans P. Binswanger-Mkhize; Sara Savastano
Source:
Food policy 2017 v.67 pp. 26-40
ISSN:
0306-9192
Subject:
fallow; gravity; intensive farming; irrigation; market access; mineral fertilizers; new markets; population density; population growth; prediction; regression analysis; soil fertility; urbanization; Africa
Abstract:
... Boserup and Ruthenberg (BR) provided the framework to analyze the impact of population growth and market access on the intensification of farming systems. Prior evidence in Africa is consistent with the framework. Over the past two decades, rapid population growth has put farming systems under stress, while rapid urbanization and economic growth have provided new market opportunities. New measures ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.foodpol.2016.09.021
PubMed:
28413244
PubMed Central:
PMC5384439

2. Are Kenyan farmers under-utilizing fertilizer? Implications for input intensification strategies and research

Author:
Megan Sheahan; Roy Black; T.S. Jayne
Source:
Food policy 2013 v.41 pp. 39-52
ISSN:
0306-9192
Subject:
corn; farmers; fertilizer rates; mineral fertilizers; nitrogen; profitability; research planning; surveys; Kenya
Abstract:
... It is widely perceived that African farmers are under-utilizing inorganic fertilizer. However, very little long-term evidence from farmers’ fields, accounting for variations in agro-ecological conditions, has been assembled to back this claim or determine the conditions under which it is true. Using five waves of nationwide household survey data from Kenya covering 13years, we estimate the relativ ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.foodpol.2013.04.008

3. Are there systematic gender differences in the adoption of sustainable agricultural intensification practices? Evidence from Kenya

Author:
S. Wagura Ndiritu; Menale Kassie; Bekele Shiferaw
Source:
Food policy 2014 v.49 pp. 117-127
ISSN:
0306-9192
Subject:
animal manures; assets; crop production; farmers; females; gender differences; intercropping; males; managers; mangers; mineral fertilizers; minimum tillage; models; socioeconomic status; surveys; sustainable agricultural intensification; water conservation; Kenya
Abstract:
... This paper uses sex-disaggregated survey data at the plot level to test whether there are systematic gender differences in the adoption of multiple sustainable intensification practices (SIPs) in Kenya. We analyze plot level adoption decisions of SIPs by male, female or joint plot managers within the household, controlling for household characteristics, asset wealth and land quality factors that c ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.foodpol.2014.06.010

4. Do the benefits of improved management practices to nutritional outcomes “dry up” in the presence of drought? Evidence from East Africa

Author:
J.G. Malacarne; L.A. Paul
Source:
Food policy 2022 pp. 102332
ISSN:
0306-9192
Subject:
agricultural management; diet; drought; food policy; food security; mineral fertilizers; risk; Mozambique; Tanzania
Abstract:
... Using a panel of nearly 3000 agricultural households in Tanzania and Mozambique from 2016–2018, this paper investigates the associations of nutritional outcomes and agricultural management practices under drought risk. We show drought has significant consequences on two nutritional outcomes in particular: food security and dietary diversity. Importantly, these consequences are evident even for hou ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.foodpol.2022.102332

5. Heterogeneous returns to chemical fertilizer at the intensive margins: Insights from Nepal

Author:
Hiroyuki Takeshima; Rajendra Prasad Adhikari; Sabnam Shivakoti; Basu Dev Kaphle; Anjani Kumar
Source:
Food policy 2017 v.69 pp. 97-109
ISSN:
0306-9192
Subject:
agricultural development; demand elasticities; developing countries; fertilizer application; issues and policy; mineral fertilizers; prices; Nepal
Abstract:
... Increased fertilizer use is considered important for agricultural development in low-income countries. Promoting increased use of chemical fertilizer by lowering its price may be ineffective if demand is price inelastic. In theory, the price elasticity of demand depends on the returns to its use, but the evidence is scarce. Furthermore, while returns are often estimated for small changes in chemic ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.foodpol.2017.03.007

6. Is increasing inorganic fertilizer use for maize production in SSA a profitable proposition? Evidence from Nigeria

Author:
Lenis Saweda O. Liverpool-Tasie; Bolarin T. Omonona; Awa Sanou; Wale O. Ogunleye
Source:
Food policy 2017 v.67 pp. 41-51
ISSN:
0306-9192
Subject:
agricultural productivity; credit; crop production; data collection; fertilizer application; irrigation; mineral fertilizers; profitability; seeds; soil quality; transportation; Nigeria
Abstract:
... Inorganic fertilizer use across Sub-Saharan Africa is generally considered to be low. Yet, the notion that fertilizer use is too low is predicated on the assumption that it is profitable to use rates higher than currently observed. There is, however, limited empirical evidence to support this. Using a nationally representative panel dataset, this paper empirically estimates the profitability of fe ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.foodpol.2016.09.011
PubMed:
28413245
PubMed Central:
PMC5384440

7. Smallholder productivity and weather shocks: Adoption and impact of widely promoted agricultural practices in Tanzania

Author:
Aslihan Arslan; Federico Belotti; Leslie Lipper
Source:
Food policy 2017 v.69 pp. 68-81
ISSN:
0306-9192
Subject:
Zea mays; conservation practices; corn; crop yield; farmers; food security; intercropping; issues and policy; legumes; mineral fertilizers; models; organic fertilizers; rain; seeds; soil; temperature; water conservation; Tanzania
Abstract:
... We investigate the impact of maize-legume intercropping, soil and water conservation practices (SWC), organic fertilizers, inorganic fertilizers and high yielding maize varieties on maize productivity under weather shocks in Tanzania using panel data. First, we estimate the determinants of adoption by applying a multivariate panel data model capturing their complementarities and/or substitutabilit ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.foodpol.2017.03.005

8. The heterogeneous effect of shocks on agricultural innovations adoption: Microeconometric evidence from rural Ethiopia

Author:
Gebrelibanos Gebremariam; Wondimagegn Tesfaye
Source:
Food policy 2018 v.74 pp. 154-161
ISSN:
0306-9192
Subject:
World Bank; households; innovation adoption; irrigation; issues and policy; mineral fertilizers; organic fertilizers; seeds; surveys; Ethiopia
Abstract:
... Theoretically, the relationship between shocks and agricultural innovation adoption could be ambiguous. While shocks could lower the competence and capacity of households to adopt new agricultural innovations, households can also take-up agricultural innovations as a coping mechanism against the different shocks they face. Using a nationally representative household data from Ethiopia of the Livin ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.foodpol.2017.12.010