Do producer organisations promote environmental sustainability through organic soil investments? Evidence from Cameroon

Tabe‐Ojong, Martin Paul

doi:10.1080/19439342.2022.2130961

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“…Our results on the correlates of the adoption of soil conservation speak to the role of information access, knowledge, and peer effects in driving the use of these soil enhancing and nutrient increasing practices (Tabe‐Ojong, 2022). These findings are largely in line with previous analyses that evaluated the impact of participatory research in increasing the adoption of soil conservation and fertility management innovations in Southeast Asia (Dalton et al, 2011).…”

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Soil conservation and smallholder welfare under cassava‐based systems in Thailand

Tabe‐Ojong¹,

Ibarra

Andrade

et al. 2023

Land Degrad Dev

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Land degradation, declining soil fertility, and erosion continue to plague agricultural production in many developing countries. In response to these farm production constraints and environmental challenges, a range of soil conservation technologies and practices have been developed and disseminated to tackle soil nutrient and fertility declines. However, evidence on the association between soil conservation, farm performance, and smallholder welfare is scarce. In this study, we examine the relationship between soil conservation, farm performance, and welfare outcomes of smallholder cassava farmers in Thailand. We use a farm household survey of 602 cassava growers and apply a doubly robust multivalued treatment effect estimator to estimate the relationship between soil conservation, farm performance, and welfare as well as the observable characteristics associated with the use of soil conservation practices. We observe a positive association between the use of soil conservation practices and cassava yields which is most likely associated with higher‐income streams. Similar insights are also observed for other welfare outcomes such as asset accumulation, including livestock which represents rural wealth to a considerable extent. The positive association between soil conservation and livestock ownership hints at some form of rural diversification. Given these insights, our analysis supports and gives credence to initiatives that promote the adoption of soil conservation as they are not only pro‐poor but also environmentally friendly with significant concerns for ecological safeguards.

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confidence: 70%

Soil conservation and smallholder welfare under cassava‐based systems in Thailand

Tabe‐Ojong¹,

Ibarra

Andrade

et al. 2023

Land Degrad Dev

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“…The questions pose to the respondents require a subjective response based on how an individual perceived his/her wellbeing. This is contrary to the objective research in which indicators such as wage disparity, to ascertain wellbeing are employed(Saleem et al, 2022;Tabe-Ojong, 2022;Wirajing et al, 2023). The world happiness report considers quality of work, economic security, the level and quality of consumption, leisure time, relationships, environment, freedom, and control as factors taken into account when measuring the Life Ladder indicator of happiness and subjective wellbeing.…”

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Cultural conflicts and wellbeing in Africa

Kouladoum,

Maiport,

Ndinga

2023

Sustainable Development

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Political instability and cultural conflicts in Africa have resulted in depression, loss of lives and destruction of properties, thus deteriorating the well‐being of the citizens. The objective of the study is to assess the effect of cultural conflicts on well‐being in 41 African countries from 2006 to 2017. This study adopted the Driscoll/Kraay estimator to address the concerns of cross‐sectional dependence. Cultural conflict is proxied by the ethnic tensions indicator while well‐being is captured by a subjective indicator of happiness measured as a life ladder indicator. The findings further reveal that well‐being is negatively affected by the interaction between religious conflicts and ethnic conflicts and interactions between internal conflicts and ethnic tensions. Robustness analysis is carried out by considering the factor of colonialism where the study sample is divided into two sub‐samples representing the former British and French colonies in Africa. The results reveal a negative effect of ethnic tensions on well‐being and also a negative role of religious tensions and internal conflicts on the modulating effect of ethnic tensions on well‐being in both former French and British colonies in Africa. The findings of the study recommend that policymakers should formulate policies that would improve intertribal relations, and ensure equality in public service and the management of state affairs to avoid intertribal conflicts which could help to improve the well‐being of all the citizens.

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“…In China, cooperatives have been shown to improve farm income (Ito et al., 2012; Ma & Abdulai, 2016) and credit access (Peng et al., 2022), but the effect is stronger for small‐scale farms. Some of these cooperatives even promote environmental sustainability by inducing the adoption of organic soil amendments (Tabe‐Ojong, 2022).…”

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“…Second, our article attempts to enrich the literature by investigating the relationship between cluster farming and smallholder commercialization using ESR and IV estimators that control for selection and endogeneity issues in cluster farming. Moreover, ESR offers the possibility to estimate actual‐counterfactual relationships, which is very relevant for agricultural and development policy (Tabe‐Ojong, 2022). It indicates the effect of cluster farming on not only cluster participants but also non‐participants, should they participate, which provides policy implications for scaling up the approach in other areas.…”

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The new normal? Cluster farming and smallholder commercialization in Ethiopia

Dureti

Tabe‐Ojong²,

Owusu‐Sekyere

2023

Agricultural Economics

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Cluster farming is increasingly recognized as a viable means of improving smallholder economic integration and commercialization in many developing countries. However, little is known about its impact on smallholder welfare and livelihoods. We examine the relationship between cluster farming and smallholder commercialization using a large‐scale survey of 3969 farm households in Ethiopia cultivating high‐acreage crops such as teff, wheat, maize, barley, and sesame. Using switching regressions and instrumental variable estimators, we show that cluster farming is associated with commercialization measured as commercialization index, market surplus value, and market price. To further deal with endogeneity concerns, we also employ some pseudo‐panel models where we observe similar insights. Beyond this, we account for heterogeneities by disaggregating households based on farm scales and crops cultivated. Our findings show that cluster farming is positively associated with commercialization for all farms and crop types despite this disaggregation. However, the related gains are higher among medium and large farms and vary per crop type. These findings imply that cluster farming is crucial in improving smallholder commercialization and may be a critical entry and leveraging point for policy. We thus lend support to initiatives and plans that seek to upscale cluster farming as they can potentially improve smallholder commercialization with ensuing impacts on rural livelihoods and welfare.

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Do producer organisations promote environmental sustainability through organic soil investments? Evidence from Cameroon

Cited by 10 publications

References 49 publications

Soil conservation and smallholder welfare under cassava‐based systems in Thailand

Soil conservation and smallholder welfare under cassava‐based systems in Thailand

Cultural conflicts and wellbeing in Africa

The new normal? Cluster farming and smallholder commercialization in Ethiopia

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