Impacts of Cash Crop Production on Household Food Security for Smallholder Farmers: A Case of Shamva District, Zimbabwe

Rubhara, Theresa Tendai; Mudhara, Maxwell; Oduniyi, Oluwaseun Samuel; Antwi, Michael Akwasi

doi:10.3390/agriculture10050188

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“…The food insecurity drivers carried out in Zambia showed that farming members and off-farm income were significantly associated negatively and positively, respectively, with the prevalence of household food insecurity [33]. The study put having a large household size as positively, and total non-farm income as negatively correlated with food insecurity [39]. In a review of studies regarding food insecurity analysis in Afghanistan, Oskorouchi et al found a positive and significant relationship between flood and food insecurity [40].…”

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Food Insecurity and Related Factors among Farming Families in Takhar Region, Afghanistan

Samim

Stępień

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Improved food security remains a major challenge for policymakers in Afghanistan. The objective of this study is to investigate the prevalence and drivers of food insecurity among farming households in the Takhar region of Afghanistan. Household questionnaire survey datasets were obtained from 262 farmers via multi-stage sampling across four districts. The Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) was constructed to assess the prevalence of food insecurity, and an ordered probit econometric model was used to identify the factors influencing the prevalence rates in farming families. The findings indicate that 66.79% of the farming households were food insecure, whilst 30.53% were severely food insecure. After adjustment of socio-economic and demographic characteristics of families, the ordered probit results reveals that household head education, dependency ratio, farm income, access to non-agricultural income, livestock unit, group membership, borrowing, farm diseases, flood, and war significantly influenced farming households’ food insecurity in the study area. Our findings highlight the urgent requirement for policies and initiatives to support farmers to improve their overall food security. Such strategies should focus on introducing improved farming techniques, enhancing farmer education levels, livestock development programs, building and empowering farmers groups, creating credit access to households, and providing humanitarian food support.

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Food Insecurity and Related Factors among Farming Families in Takhar Region, Afghanistan

Samim

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“…Nevertheless, it remains unclear to what extent and under which conditions can cash crops influence food security [10]. In general, empirical evidence on the relationship between cash cropping and food security remains inconclusive [10,38,42,59]. Some authors posit that cash crops displace food crops [30,44] and undermine food security by rendering households more dependent on market conditions for food [37,75].…”

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“…On the contrary, some studies suggest that cash crops rather enhance the food security of farmers by increasing incomes [41,68,73]. The question still remains whether income gains from cash crops would be enough to satisfy the food needs of farming households [59].…”

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“…There may be potential synergies between cash crops and food crops in determining household food security but these have generally been neglected by research and extension programmes [32]. There is, therefore, the need for future research to determine optimum combinations of cash and food crops required to enhance the food security of cash cropping households [59]. There are additional knowledge gaps on the intersecting role of socioeconomic factors.…”

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Cash crops and food security: evidence from smallholder cocoa and cashew farmers in Ghana

2022

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Background Food security is a major development concern worldwide. The use of arable lands to grow cash crops raises additional concerns, yet empirical evidence on the relationship between cash cropping and food security remains inconclusive. Using survey data from 408 randomly sampled households, this paper assesses the income and food security implications of reviving cocoa farming in the Forest-Savannah Transition Zone of Ghana. In addition, the paper examines the influence of socioeconomic factors and diversification into cashew on the food security of cocoa households. Data was collected from 12 rural communities, where food crop production was the main source of livelihood. A causal-comparative design was used. Food security was measured using the USDA Food Security Core Module. Results Contrary to the literature that cash crops undermine food security, findings indicate a positive relationship between cocoa farming, household crop income and food security, highlighting complementarities between cocoa, food crop and cashew production. Although income from cocoa alone was not sufficient enough to guarantee food security, it enhanced the financial ability of farmers to diversify into cashew and expand food crop production. This minimised market dependency for food staples, enhanced annual crop income, and ensured a continuous flow of income. Overall, the food security advantage of cocoa farming was predicted by diversification into cashew, displacement of food crops using cocoa, socioeconomic factors, such as land ownership, livestock ownership, and formal education; and marginally by total annual crop income. Conclusions Income from cocoa alone is not high enough and widely distributed to guarantee food security. Reinvesting the returns from cocoa in cashew and food crops seems to be a more reliable pathway to enhancing food security than merely depending on the income to buy food. A semi-subsistence system that ensures optimum combination of cash and food crops is, therefore, recommended, but this may require sufficient access to land.

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“…Where, zi = 1 for high value market zi = 0 for non-high value market xi = the vector of observed covariates for the i th subject Following Rubhara et al (2020), the study used PSM to investigate the impact of participation in a high-value market on cattle production (the number of cattle sold was used as a proxy). Propensity score values are dependent on a vector of observed covariates that are associated with the receipt of treatment.…”

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Assessing emerging beef farmers participation in high-value market and its impact on cattle sales in South Africa

Oduniyi

Antwi

Mukwevho

2022

Int. J. Agril. Res. Innov. & Tech.

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The participation of emerging farmers in high-value agricultural markets in South Africa cannot be over-emphasized. It is one of the objectives of the government to assist emerging farmers with the necessary resources and programmes to enable them to meet the requirements and participate in high-value markets. The study investigated the impact of participation in the high-value market on cattle production (cattle sold). A systematic random probabilistic sampling technique was used to obtain a sample of 55 emerging beef farmers. Interviews were undertaken using questionnaires to collect data. Descriptive statistics and econometric methods such as Tobit model and a treatment effect model using propensity score matching estimator were employed for the data analysis. The results of binary logit regression from the PSM revealed that participation in a high-value market was significantly affected by age, household size, years of farming and difficulty accessing a high-value market. The average treatment effect of the treated showed a negative impact and decreases the number of cattle sold by 58%. The recommendations informed by the findings from the study are that youth in the study area should be involved in beef farming, appropriate training should be given to the farmers and farmer's advisor should motivate farmers to sell more cattle and participate in a high-value market, and educate them about the requirements to participate in the high value markets. The DARD lease assistance should continue and include the lease of more land. Int. J. Agril. Res. Innov. Tech. 11(2): 27-36, Dec 2021

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Impacts of Cash Crop Production on Household Food Security for Smallholder Farmers: A Case of Shamva District, Zimbabwe

Cited by 28 publications

References 24 publications

Food Insecurity and Related Factors among Farming Families in Takhar Region, Afghanistan

Food Insecurity and Related Factors among Farming Families in Takhar Region, Afghanistan

Cash crops and food security: evidence from smallholder cocoa and cashew farmers in Ghana

Assessing emerging beef farmers participation in high-value market and its impact on cattle sales in South Africa

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