Food Security and Policy Reform in Mali and the Sahel

Dioné, Josué

doi:10.1007/978-1-349-11579-2_7

“…The result indicates that the ILC increases fertilizer nutrient use by 5.6 kgs per acre on non-ILC crops. Dione (1991) found that the introduction of cotton to Southern Mali increased the demand for fertilizer, which subsequently stimulated private investment from input manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. These investments made fertilizer and other inputs more accessible and profitable not only for use on cotton (which was the primary impetus for the expansion of input supply in these areas) but also for farmers who only produced staple food crops.…”

Section: Spillover Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interlinked credit and farm intensification: evidence from Kenya

Jayne¹,

Yamano²,

Nyoro³

2004

Agricultural Economics

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This paper addresses the potential for interlinked credit/input/output marketing arrangements for particular cash crops to promote food crop intensification. Using panel survey data from Kenya, we estimate a household fixed-effects model of fertilizer use per hectare of food crops. Results indicate that households engaging in interlinked marketing programs for selected cash crops applied considerably greater fertilizer on other crops (primarily cereals) not directly purchased by the cash crop trading firm. These findings suggest that, in addition to the direct stimulus that interlinked cash crop marketing arrangements can have on small farmer incomes, these institutional arrangements may provide spillover benefits for the productivity of the farmers' other activities such as food cropping.

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“…The results indicate that Table 3 The effects of participation in interlinked credit arrangements on fertiliser use per acre on crops other than those purchased by the firm providing interlinked credit (ILC), first-difference model using instrumental variables estimation Although the main focus of this paper is on the effects of household participation in interlinked credit arrangements on intensification of non-ILC crops, there may be other pathways by which integrated cash crop promotion schemes employing ILC arrangements may promote fertiliser use on non-ILC crops. For instance, Dione (1991) found that the introduction of cotton to Southern Mali increased the demand for fertiliser, which subsequently stimulated private investment from input manufacturers, distributors and retailers. These investments made fertiliser and other inputs more accessible and profitable not only for use on cotton (which was the primary impetus for the expansion of input supply in these areas) but also for farmers who only produced staple food crops.…”

Section: Household Participation In Interlinked Credit Arrangementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interlinked credit and farm intensification: evidence from Kenya

Jayne

¹

,

Yamano

²

,

Nyoro

³

2004

Agricultural Economics

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This paper addresses the potential for interlinked credit/input/output marketing arrangements for particular cash crops to promote food crop intensification. Using panel survey data from Kenya, we estimate a household fixed-effects model of fertilizer use per hectare of food crops. Results indicate that households engaging in interlinked marketing programs for selected cash crops applied considerably greater fertilizer on other crops (primarily cereals) not directly purchased by the cash crop trading firm. These findings suggest that, in addition to the direct stimulus that interlinked cash crop marketing arrangements can have on small farmer incomes, these institutional arrangements may provide spillover benefits for the productivity of the farmers' other activities such as food cropping.

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“…2 A major role of agricultural policy is to identify policy changes that may induce technological innovation and productivity growth throughout the food system, in order to increase the living standards of people who must relate to it in one way or another. While food market reform has been subject to contentious and often emotional debate over the last decade in Africa, the debate has generally been over assumptions about how food markets work in reality as opposed to theory, and how markets actually respond to particular forms of policy change (Hewitt de Alcantara 1993;Jiriyengwa 1993;Dioné 1991;Lele and Candler 1984). The lack of consensus is partially due to a shortage of empirical, ground-level information linking specific policies to specific impacts.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%