Farm size, food security, and welfare

Abay, Kibrewossen; Hirvonen, Kalle; Minten, Bart

doi:10.2499/9780896296916_06

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“…Large farm households had better livelihood standards than landless and small farmers. Our findings are supported by Abay et al (2020), who revealed a strong association between farm sizes with food security and the welfare of farmers in Ethiopia. In addition, small farmers reported more severe impacts of household vulnerability risks, such as unpredictable events that undermined their livelihoods, then driving them into poverty.…”

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Rural households' food security and its determinants in coastal regions of Bangladesh

Panezai

Moniruzzaman

Saqib

et al. 2022

Natural Resources Forum

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The coastal zone of Bangladesh is suffering from a wide range of climate change‐driven hazards. Limited attention has been given to these zones' food security assessment. Therefore, this study aims to assess the status of food security and its determinants among different groups of Bangladeshi coastal households. It also identifies their livelihood risks and coping strategies during stressed situations. Data were collected from 1350 households from coastal districts through a questionnaire survey. Food security was calculated and compared with the recommended average (2400 kcal/capita/day). A binary logit model was used to identify the determinants of food security among rural coastal households. Livelihood risks and coping mechanisms were recorded through open‐ended questions. The findings of this study revealed that although on average, sampled households were food secure (2753 kcal/capita/day), 81% of landless households and 72% of marginal landholders within the sample appeared food insecure. Among various food items, rice supplied the greatest total daily calorie intake (1841.47 kcal), second was the edible oil (172.27 kcal). The regression model revealed that farm size, farm income, off‐farm income, and crop production had positive impacts on households' food security. Floods, salinity, heavy rainfall, and reduction of land productivity were high risks to the large farm households, while heavy rainfall, floods, and salinity were high risks to the landless farm households. To cope with these risks, the majority of large farm households used their savings and sold livestock and poultry as coping strategies. The landless and marginal farmers were mostly helped by nongovernmental and government‐run organizations, moved elsewhere to find work, sold their labor, and were involved in fishing. It was concluded that different groups of farmers face different challenges. Our findings indicate that in order to protect landless and marginal farmers, government should implement policies aimed at increasing crop production by means of prioritizing saline‐tolerant crop varieties and the creation of more job opportunities.

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confidence: 91%

Rural households' food security and its determinants in coastal regions of Bangladesh

Panezai

Moniruzzaman

Saqib

et al. 2022

Natural Resources Forum

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“…The affordability of a range of foods from various food categories is a key determinant of dietary diversity and, in turn, food security. Previous research (e.g., Abay et al, 2020; Lu et al, 2021) has shown that households with greater food security and higher socioeconomic status tend to have more diverse diets, as measured by the HDDS.…”

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“…First, it provides valuable insights into how changing farmland sizes, especially among smallholders, are affecting food security in SSA, where the mainstream households live below the poverty line and rely heavily on farming. Most previous research (e.g., Abay et al, 2020; Frelat et al, 2016; Hazell, 2020; Noack & Larsen, 2019) have only studied the average effect of farm size on household food security. These studies often assume a constant nexus between cultivated land and food security across the distribution, which may not be the case.…”

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“…This approach isolates the ceteris paribus nexus between farm sizes and household dietary diversity across the distribution while controlling for selectivity bias arising from observable and unobservable sources of heterogeneity. This method is well‐suited for examining the distributional effects of changing farm sizes on household dietary diversity and has not been used in previous studies (Abay et al, 2020; Galli et al, 2020; Urfels et al, 2023).…”

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Average and heterogeneous effects of smallholder farm sizes on dietary diversity in northern Ghana

Addai,

Ng'ombe,

Temoso

2023

Review Development Economics

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The relationship between farm size and dietary diversity has recently gained attention among development practitioners and policymakers. To study this issue, we utilized cross‐sectional data from 900 farm households in Northern Ghana. The analysis employs three econometric approaches—ordinary least squares, two‐stage least squares, and instrumental variable (IV) quantile regression. We subjected our estimates to Conley‐Hansen‐Rossi bound tests to assess the validity of total farmland under household control as an IV for farm size, which serves to illustrate the robustness of the causal inferences linking farm size to household dietary diversity. The results show that a 1‐ha increase in cultivated land improves household dietary diversity score by 3.221 units. The effect of cultivated land on dietary diversity is enhanced by market information, use of improved seeds, chemical fertilizers and herbicides, and overall household asset value. In conclusion, the results indicate that farm size increases household dietary diversity when moving along the dietary diversity distribution. This highlights the importance of considering the influence of farm size at different points along the conditional dietary diversity score distribution, as relying solely on mean effects may obscure important counteracting effects.

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“…The findings demonstrated that farm size is one of the drives behind the farmers decision to adopt on-farm and non-farm activities as adaptation strategies to achieve food security. However, Abay et al (2017), observed that the difference in food security indicators was not very large between households with large farms and small farms in Ethiopia, as farmers who are owners of small farms adopted sustainable agriculture practices such as cultivated intensively and diversified their livelihoods in a bid to enhance the food security status.…”

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Factors Influencing Household Food Security among Smallholder Farmers: The Case of the Jordan Valley

Al-Wedyan¹

2023

An-Najah University Journal for Research - A

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This experiment was conducted in the field of laying hens affiliated with the Department of Animal Production at the College of Agriculture at Basrah University during the period from 27/12/2021 to 21/2/2021. It was applied to 90 experimental units (a 45-week-old laying hens) of Lohmann Extra, randomly allocated to five treatments. Each treatment has three replicates, with six chickens per replicate. The treatments included: - T1: Negative control treatment (basal diet without Addition) T2: Positive control treatment, the addition of dried skim milk at a level of 1 g / kg of feed. T3, T4, T5: add the manufactured bacterial preparation at a level of (0.5, 1, and 2( g/kg feed, respectively. To study the effect of manufactured bacterial preparation on some cellular and biochemical blood characteristics of laying hens. There was a significant (P≤0.05) improvement in cellular blood parameters, packed cell volume (PCV) and biochemical parameters of blood serum (cholesterol, total protein, albumin, globulin) in laying hens, and there were no significant differences in the ratio of heterophile cells to lymphocytes(H/L), glucose, and liver enzymes Aspartate Aminotransferase (AST), Alanine Aminotransferase (ALT).

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Farm size, food security, and welfare

Cited by 4 publications

References 19 publications

Rural households' food security and its determinants in coastal regions of Bangladesh

Rural households' food security and its determinants in coastal regions of Bangladesh

Average and heterogeneous effects of smallholder farm sizes on dietary diversity in northern Ghana

Factors Influencing Household Food Security among Smallholder Farmers: The Case of the Jordan Valley

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