Assessing the Impact of Crop Diversification on Farm Poverty in India

Birthal, Pratap S.; Roy, Devesh; Negi, Digvijay S.

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.02.015

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“…This possibly suggests greater influence of unobservable factors on the decision to grow fruits in comparison to vegetables and spices and condiments. These findings are consistent with the findings of Birthal et al () for India.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…As a farm becomes more intensive in HVC, it may suffer from binding labor supply constraint, limiting further diversification and its benefits. Birthal et al () also find a similar relationship for large farms in India.…”

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confidence: 64%

“…We implement IV regressions to deal with this issue of potential bias. We use the network-based IV, that is, percentage of HVC growers in a community (see Birthal et al 2015). Due to network effects in roles such as technology diffusion, one expects that a HH is more likely to adopt HVC if a larger proportion of the HH in their community grow HVCs.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It has also been associated with reversing the declining trend in agricultural growth (Rosegrant and Hazell ; WB ). Birthal et al () find that households (HHs) diversifying into HVCs are less likely to be poor (3–7% lower probability) in India. Diversification in the product mix into HVCs generates employment, augments income, and results in reduced poverty (Pingali and Rosegrant ; Von Braun ; Chand ; Jha ; McCulloch and Ota ; Joshi et al ; Weinberger and Lumpkin ).…”

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Impact of Crop Diversification on Rural Poverty in Nepal

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Crop diversification into high‐value crops (HVCs) can be an important strategy to augment income, generate employment, and reduce poverty in developing countries. We study the impact of crop diversification (share of production value obtained from the HVCs) on household (HH) welfare measures in Nepal. We use three rounds of the nationally representative Nepal Living Standard Surveys: NLSS I (1994/95), NLSS II (2004/05), and NLSS III (2010/11). The dose–response function, propensity score matching, and instrumental variable techniques are used to estimate the impact of crop diversification. Results show the positive impact of HVCs on the monthly per capita consumption expenditure and poverty outcomes. Among HVCs growers, HHs growing vegetables have the better welfare outcomes. While establishing the relationship between degree of agricultural diversity and poverty measures, we find that the marginal farmers need to at least derive 35% of the share of revenue from HVCs to escape from poverty.

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“…Diversification is important, including in the agricultural sector. Not only is quality of life related to lower agricultural activity (Anríquez and Stamoulis 2007), but the diversification in agricultural activity is also important to reduce poverty (Birthal et al 2015) and improve quality of life (Machado et al 2015).…”

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Potential impacts on local quality of life due to sugarcane expansion: a case study based on panel data analysis

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Picoli²,

João

2016

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Agribusiness participation in Brazil generates investments in rural infrastructure and employment, with direct effects on local quality of life. In this sense, government policies to support the production of ethanol from sugarcane and to promote bioelectricity from bagasse production have made Brazil a country of world leadership in this field. This paper reports an assessment of socioeconomic impacts due to sugarcane production in three regions in Brazil (Piracicaba, Presidente Prudente and Southwest Goiás). Local quality of life is defined as five dimensions: income and inequality, education, infrastructure, health and general development, analysed using panel data modelling, with variables that could explain differences in development due to local characteristics, including sugarcane activity. Presidente Prudente has the highest levels of progress in education, poverty, infrastructure and general development indicators. The models indicate that participation of sugarcane has positive impacts on the indicators of the microregion. In case of Piracicaba microregion, in two models (''L-Theil'' and ''Illiteracy rate'') indicators related with sugarcane sector are significant explanatory variables, contributing for better indicators. Finally, Southwest Goias-where sugarcane activity develops later-is the single microregion in which the adjusted models have no significant explanatory variables related to sugarcane sector.

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Asymmetric price transmission in perishable crops value chain: A NARDL approach

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Policymakers and economists envisage effective price transmission across markets or stakeholders in supply chains as a vital contributor to market efficiency. The paper explores the vertical price transmission in the perishables supply chain in India using weekly data on farm, wholesale and retail prices collected from main production and consumption markets. We estimate the asymmetries in price transmission using the nonlinear autoregressive distributed lags model and found the asymmetry in both magnitude and speed in the case of wholesale–retail chain of Onion and Potato, asymmetry in magnitude in wholesale–retail chain of Tomato, and asymmetry in speed in farm–wholesale chain of Potato. The results of asymmetric coefficient, long‐run elasticity of price transmission, speed of adjustment and implied half‐life of disequilibrium indicated that farm–wholesale chain is more efficient than wholesale–retail chain. Further, market chains of Onion and Tomato are more efficient than Potato chains. The magnitude of the adjustment was found to be larger for the long‐run positive shock in wholesale–retail market chain of Onion, Potato and Tomato, and it concluded that retailers enjoy an advantage over wholesalers as well as farmers. We draw interesting policy considerations for the perishables sector [EconLit Citations: Q11, Q13, C32].

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Assessing the Impact of Crop Diversification on Farm Poverty in India

Cited by 116 publications

References 33 publications

Impact of Crop Diversification on Rural Poverty in Nepal

Impact of Crop Diversification on Rural Poverty in Nepal

Potential impacts on local quality of life due to sugarcane expansion: a case study based on panel data analysis

Asymmetric price transmission in perishable crops value chain: A NARDL approach

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