Interlinked credit and farm intensification: evidence from Kenya

Jayne, Thomas S.; Yamano, Takashi; Nyoro, James K.

doi:10.1016/j.agecon.2004.09.008

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“…Farmers who access credited fertiliser have less need to buy and borrow fertiliser elsewhere. They apply more overall, so achieve higher yields, as has been found elsewhere [28]. Here, credit does not increase the likelihood of commercialisation overall.…”

Section: Mixed Support For the African Green Revolutionsupporting

confidence: 51%

Fertiliser credit and agroecological use of organic soil amendments in northern Ghana

Bellwood-Howard¹

2016

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Contemporary African agricultural policy embodies the African Green Revolution's drive towards modernisation and commercialisation. Agroecologists have criticised this movement on ecological, social and political grounds. Northern Ghanaian fertiliser credit schemes provide a good example through which these critiques can be examined in a context where agricultural policy reflects the African Green Revolution's ideals. This study aimed to determine the relationship of such credit schemes to farmers' use of organic amendments, elucidate other factors related to organic amendment use, and comment on the relevance of this modernisation policy and its relationship to agroecology. A first research phase employed semi-structured key informant interviews. Qualitative data from these informed construction of a semi-structured questionnaire that was used in a survey of 205 farmers. Multistage sampling purposively identified five villages and selected farmers within who had joined government and donor-funded fertiliser credit schemes. The use of organic and inorganic amendments was compared to that of peers who had not taken part in such schemes. Quantitative data were used in binomial logistic regression, inferential and descriptive statistics. Qualitative data were content analysed. Credit group membership was associated with higher fertiliser application and yield, but had little influence on the extent of commercialisation. Farmers who applied organic amendments were 40% less likely to belong to a fertiliser credit scheme than not, indicating substitution between organic and inorganic fertilisers. Organic amendments were 40% more likely to be applied to compound farms than outfields and six times more likely to be applied by household heads than other household members. However, household heads also preferentially joined credit groups. This was part of an agroecological soil fertility management strategy. Household heads appreciated the soil moisture retention properties of organic amendments, and applied them to compound farms to reduce risk to their household food supply in a semi-arid environment. They simultaneously accessed fertiliser to enhance this household provisioning strategy. They appreciated the increased yields this achieved, yet complained that the repayment terms of credit schemes were unfair, fertiliser did not enhance yields in dry conditions and fertilisers were supplied late. Farmers' use of credited fertiliser alongside their existing agroecological strategy is helpful to the extent that it raises yields, yet is problematic in that it conflicts with risk-reduction strategies based on organics. There is some potential for modernised and agroecological management paradigms to coexist. For fertiliser credit to play a role in this, schemes must use fairer repayment terms and involve a focus on simultaneous use of organic amendments.

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Section: Mixed Support For the African Green Revolutionsupporting

confidence: 51%

Fertiliser credit and agroecological use of organic soil amendments in northern Ghana

Bellwood-Howard¹

2016

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“…If successfully implemented, however, these areas of support can serve as vehicles for access and utilisation of the assets described in previous sections of this article which may, in turn, contribute to improving household agriculture. Both technical assistance and credit have been shown to foster the use of productive inputs like fertiliser and pesticides, as well as the adoption of innovative technology (Feder et al, 1985;Pitt and Sumondiningrat, 1991;Jayne et al, 2004). Credit access has also been linked to investments in fixed assets such as land (Carter and Olinto, 2003).…”

Section: Agrarian Support For Producersmentioning

confidence: 98%

Rural Household Access to Assets and Markets: A Cross-Country Comparison

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The sluggish supply response in most developing countries to the apparently favourable agricultural market situation of the past few years can be explained by the limited ability of price incentives to bring about an increase in production and marketed surplus in the presence of binding non-price constraints. This article characterises farm household heterogeneity in access to assets, markets and infrastructure drawing on household survey data from 15 developing countries. We relate this heterogeneity in access to household ability to engage successfully in agricultural output markets and find consistent supporting evidence for the hypothesis that this lack of access is significantly constraining their potential to engage successfully in agriculture.Dans la plupart des pays en de´veloppement, la re´action de l 0 offre a`la situation des marche´s agricoles -depuis quelques anne´es favorable -est lente, et ce en raison de la capacite´limite´e des incitations en termes de prix a`ge´ne´rer une augmentation de la production et des exce´dents commercialise´s, en pre´sence d 0 importantes contraintes non tarifaires. S 0 appuyant sur des donne´es d 0 enqueˆtes sur les me´nages recueillies dans 15 pays en de´veloppement, cet article de´crit l 0 he´te´roge´ne´ite´des me´nages agricoles en matie`re d 0 acce`s aux actifs, marche´s et infrastructures. Nous montrons la relation qui existe entre cette he´te´roge´ne´ite´et la capacite´des me´nages a`s 0 engager avec succe`s sur les marche´s de produits agricoles, et trouvons des preuves solides soutenant l 0 hypothe`se selon laquelle ce manque d 0 acce`s limite fortement leur potentiel a`s 0 engager dans l 0 agriculture de manie`re profitable. Context: Assets, Markets, Agriculture and Poverty ReductionDuring the recent spikes in world agricultural prices, several observers noted with concern that despite the improved terms of trade and overall incentives framework for farmers, agricultural supply response in developing countries was very limited. That observation raises the question of what is constraining the ability of farmers in these countries to take advantage of apparently favourable market conditions (FAO, 2009). One explanation is to be found in the importance of non-price factors in determining farmers' marketed surplus, r

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“…Results indicate that households engaging in interlinked marketing programs for selected cash crops applied considerably greater fertiliser on other crops (primarily cereals) not directly purchased by the cash crop trading firm [8].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 94%

Market Interlinked, System Non-specialized: Farmland Transfer Impacts on Rural Labor Mobility

Lai¹,

Huang²,

Du³

et al. 2017

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A survey was conducted on Canton of China land owners transferring farmland property rights and migrating from rural area to urban. The research objective was to determine how the farmland property rights transfer impacted rural labor migration behavior. Theoretical models proved that transfer of farmland would drive rural labor migration. Empirical results showed farmland transfer market interlinks with rural labor market in a non-specialized production system.

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Interlinked credit and farm intensification: evidence from Kenya

Cited by 21 publications

References 9 publications

Fertiliser credit and agroecological use of organic soil amendments in northern Ghana

Fertiliser credit and agroecological use of organic soil amendments in northern Ghana

Rural Household Access to Assets and Markets: A Cross-Country Comparison

Market Interlinked, System Non-specialized: Farmland Transfer Impacts on Rural Labor Mobility

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