Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Africa

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“…This implies that any relative increase in access to extension services caused agricultural income to respond positively. Farmers' access to extension services plays a very critical role in the production activities of smallholder farmers, and extension officers are often the ones who share information with smallholder famers on programs to finance infrastructure (Anderson and Masters, 2007).…”

Section: Access To Agricultural Extension Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agricultural infrastructure as the driver of emerging farmers’ income in South Africa. A stochastic frontier approach

2020

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A stochastic frontier model was applied to cross-sectional data to examine whether availability and accessibility of agricultural infrastructure for emerging farmers enhance their agricultural income through efficiency gains. Using a stratified sampling approach, the study grouped the farmers into two; those who had agricultural infrastructure and those who did not have it. Through a survey, data collected from a sample of 150 smallholder farmers in the study area were analyzed using the frontier model. The explanatory variables that were statistically significant and which influenced the agricultural income of the emerging farmers in the study area included the following: equipment, social, institutional availability and physical accessibility indices, education, access to agricultural extension services, age of farmers, assistance of household members in farming, membership in farmers’ organizations, and marital status of the farmers. Informed policies aimed at improving the income of smallholder farmers might consider the results of the explanatory variables included in this study.

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Section: Access To Agricultural Extension Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agricultural infrastructure as the driver of emerging farmers’ income in South Africa. A stochastic frontier approach

2020

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“…However, under colonial pressure, the colonized countries were forced to adopt strategies and policies imposed by the colonizers in all plans and sectors, including agriculture. As colonies, the West African countries were agricultural exports to Europe (Anderson and Masters, 2009). Thus, during the pre-independence period, the West African agricultural sector experienced the integration and inclusion of exogenous crops, primarily industrial and originating from America.…”

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A Multi-Perspective Analysis of Agricultural Policies in West Africa: Policy Strategies for Rethinking Sustainable Agricultural Development

Bamoi¹,

Yılmaz²

2021

J. Glob. Innov. Agric. Sci

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The purpose of this study is to analyze agricultural policies and their changes through a multi-perspective approach and suggest the policy strategies for rethinking Sustainable Agricultural Development (SAD) in West Africa. To reach the study's goal, this paper investigates the structural changes and trends of agricultural policy, the key elements of current agricultural policy, the policy challenges, and instruments suitability. In the study, qualitative analysis was used as a primary research tool. Within this framework, a comprehensive approach enabling holistic assessment, including multi-perspective analysis and the acronym EFFECTIVE as assessment criteria for each policy tool, has been employed. The study results showed that there have been significant changes in West African agriculture over the years in production, modernization and mechanization, agro-food processing, marketing and trade, financing, and policies. Despite these changes, agricultural policies implemented so far could not solve food security, agricultural development, and rural development. Therefore, it is necessary to rethink SAD through a comprehensive agricultural policy approach that simultaneously considers elements, activities, and outcomes of any sub-sector of the agricultural system. The policy strategies should be oriented toward practical and clearly described sub-policies, including specific tools and instruments and strategies related to financing, productivity, cooperation system, and governance for any sub-division of agriculture. Keywords: Agricultural policies, multi-perspective analysis, policy strategies, sustainable, agricultural development, west Africa.

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“…With all this endeavors strategized by the government still market is a challenge for agricultural products including banana. Farmers are mostly albeit indirectly affected not only by the prices of their own outputs, but also by the incentives non-agricultural producers face, that is both absolute but relative prices and relative rates of government assistance affect producer incentives (Anderson and Masters, 2009).…”

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The Status of Banana Production in Tanzania; a Review of Threats and Opportunities

Lucas¹

2021

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The word “banana” refers to a crop that cuddles a number of species commonly known as Musa spp. In Tanzania, the crop is the fourth most important crop for food and income generation for more than 30 percent of the total population. In East Africa, Tanzania is the second banana producer after Uganda. The country has the highest world’s consumption rate between 280-500 kg per person. Despite the crop’s importance its production has declined from 18 t/ha in the 1960s to 5-7 t/ha/year in 2016. This review examined the status of banana production by identifying threats and opportunities with the aim of providing readily available resource for Researchers and Agriculture Extension Officers for better banana production. Through online resources, the review identified the challenges impeding banana production and ascertaining prevailing opportunities. Banana production in Tanzania is faced with many challenges including major pests (weevil and nematode) and diseases (fusarium wilt disease, black sigatoka, and banana xanthomonas wilt disease), poor soil fertility, moisture stress, poor management practices, lack of improved banana varieties and many social economic factors. The review identified that, since 1990s there are few introduced improved banana varieties and that most of these varieties are faced with low consumer’s acceptability. Again the country is faced with shortage of banana breeding centers that could produce desirable banana hybrid cultivars. This review also identified the lack of banana information resources and research platforms that involves all banana stakeholders, making targeting of varietal attributes to consumer preferences very difficult. Therefore, in order to improve production there must be an inter-link among different research disciplines, involving governmental and non-governmental organizations, coming together and seek solutions to current and future problems for sustainable production of banana.

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Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Africa

Cited by 72 publications

References 68 publications

Agricultural infrastructure as the driver of emerging farmers’ income in South Africa. A stochastic frontier approach

Agricultural infrastructure as the driver of emerging farmers’ income in South Africa. A stochastic frontier approach

A Multi-Perspective Analysis of Agricultural Policies in West Africa: Policy Strategies for Rethinking Sustainable Agricultural Development

The Status of Banana Production in Tanzania; a Review of Threats and Opportunities

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