Global Retail Chains and Poor Farmers: Evidence from Madagascar

Minten, Bart; Randrianarison, Lalaina; Swinnen, Johan

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2008.08.024

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“…In most cases, this will mean that efforts to close yield gaps should support those who are already farming the land, especially in situ smallholders, rather than undermining or displacing them by introducing technologies which they cannot afford. Contract farming and job creation by responsible agricultural companies can also, in the right circumstances, benefit small farmers and the rural poor [70,71] but there are serious and legitimate concerns about increasing corporate control of the global food system [72]. If it is to avoid negative social impacts, reform of agricultural subsidies and other incentives should include consideration of the implications for social justice as well as environmental outcomes.…”

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Closing yield gaps: perils and possibilities for biodiversity conservation

Phalan

Green

Balmford

2014

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Increasing agricultural productivity to ‘close yield gaps’ creates both perils and possibilities for biodiversity conservation. Yield increases often have negative impacts on species within farmland, but at the same time could potentially make it more feasible to minimize further cropland expansion into natural habitats. We combine global data on yield gaps, projected future production of maize, rice and wheat, the distributions of birds and their estimated sensitivity to changes in crop yields to map where it might be most beneficial for bird conservation to close yield gaps as part of a land-sparing strategy, and where doing so might be most damaging. Closing yield gaps to attainable levels to meet projected demand in 2050 could potentially help spare an area equivalent to that of the Indian subcontinent. Increasing yields this much on existing farmland would inevitably reduce its biodiversity, and therefore we advocate efforts both to constrain further increases in global food demand, and to identify the least harmful ways of increasing yields. The land-sparing potential of closing yield gaps will not be realized without specific mechanisms to link yield increases to habitat protection (and restoration), and therefore we suggest that conservationists, farmers, crop scientists and policy-makers collaborate to explore promising mechanisms.

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Section: (Iii) Equitymentioning

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Closing yield gaps: perils and possibilities for biodiversity conservation

Phalan

Green

Balmford

2014

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…In the case of Africa, most recorded changes in agricultural and food markets have been linked to niche markets such as export crops (Maertens & Swinnen, 2009;Minten, Randrianarison, & Swinnen, 2009) and modern supply chains (Neven, Odera, Reardon, & Wang, 2009;Rao & Qaim, 2011), mostly driven by more stringent requirements by buyers. Evidence of widespread changes in domestic staple food value chains in Africa is, however, limited, possibly due to a lack of accurate and reliable data (Jerven, 2013).…”

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Transforming Staple Food Value Chains in Africa: The Case of Teff in Ethiopia

Minten

Tamru

Engida³

et al. 2015

The Journal of Development Studies

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We study changes in the last decade in the teff value chain, Ethiopia's most important staple food crop by area and value. Upstream, there is increasing adoption of modern inputs and new varieties -especially by those farmers living close to cities -leading to higher land productivity. Mid-and downstream, we find improved processing costs and increasing willingness-to-pay for convenience and quality, as illustrated by the emergence of one-stop retail shops and the rise of more expensive teff varieties. Because of the large numbers of teff producers and consumers, this transformation has important implications on the country's food security.

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“…() for rice production in Cambodia; Warning and Key () for peanuts in Senegal; Maertens and Swinnen () for vegetable production in Senegal; McCulloch and Ota () for horticulture production in Kenya; Minten et al . () for vegetable production in Madagascar; Miyata et al . () for fruit and vegetable production in China; Ramaswami et al .…”

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Does Contracting Make Farmers Happy? Evidence from Senegal

Dedehouanou

Swinnen²,

Maertens

2013

Review of Income and Wealth

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In this paper we use a subjective well‐being approach to evaluate the welfare impact of contract‐farming. We analyze the impact of contract‐farming on self‐reported happiness using original panel data from a farm‐household survey in the Niayes region in Senegal. We use different econometric techniques and show that, when correcting for time invariant unobserved heterogeneity, contract‐farming has a positive effect on subjective well‐being. We find diverging effects for different types of contracts, suggesting that contract‐farming contributes more to farmers’ subjective well‐being under certain conditions and contract design. Our main finding corroborates earlier findings from empirical studies using cross‐sectional data and income‐based measures of welfare. In line with earlier results from the subjective well‐being literature, we find that absolute income has a positive but decreasing effect on subjective well‐being while comparison income has a negative effect. Also household demographic characteristics, their land and livestock assets, and housing indicators affect subjective well‐being.

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Global Retail Chains and Poor Farmers: Evidence from Madagascar

Cited by 406 publications

References 24 publications

Closing yield gaps: perils and possibilities for biodiversity conservation

Closing yield gaps: perils and possibilities for biodiversity conservation

Transforming Staple Food Value Chains in Africa: The Case of Teff in Ethiopia

Does Contracting Make Farmers Happy? Evidence from Senegal

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