Les organisations de producteurs en zone cotonnière au Mali

Bélières, Jean-François; Benoit-Cattin, Michel; Barret, L.; Djouara, Hamady; Kébé, Demba

doi:10.4000/economierurale.498

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“…This idea has been a long position of giving main concern of successive governments since Mali's gained independence, in 1960. Structural responses to food insecurity in Mali have mainly consisted of strategic reforms to enable the nation to enhance agricultural production for the attainment of food security (Bélières et al, 2008).…”

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Accountability in agricultural governance and food security in Nigeria

Osabohien

Ufua

Moses

et al. 2020

Braz. J. Food Technol.

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This study explores the relationship between agricultural governance and food security in Nigeria and employs two main approaches: descriptive and econometric. The econometric approach engages Autoregressive Distribution Lag (ARDL) in examining the long-run relationship between the indicators of food security and agricultural governance for the period 1985 to 2016. The results show that in the long-run, agricultural performance contribute to food security in Nigeria. The findings from the descriptive analysis unveil that Nigeria has the highest number of undernourished people, which increased by 22% between 2000 and 2001. Between 2000 and 2015, the population grew by 30.60% with the rate of violence increasing by 55%. The study recommends, among others, that accountability in addressing the challenges in the implementation of food security programs and ensuring timely distribution of food resources is germane.

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Accountability in agricultural governance and food security in Nigeria

Osabohien

Ufua

Moses

et al. 2020

Braz. J. Food Technol.

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“…The CMDT is the only institution that guarantees access to fertilizer for cotton and maize. The decision to split CMDT in four local units owned by private societies, together with the creation of one national union of farmer cooperatives in 2007 to take over some of the organization of the value-chain (access to credit, capacity building and information of producers, market share), raises some uncertainties on the future of the cotton sector (Bélières et al, 2008). So far the privatization has not been operationalized, and the challenge of regaining farmers' trust in cotton production remains.…”

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Understanding farm trajectories and development pathways: Two decades of change in southern Mali

Falconnier

Descheemaeker

Mourik

et al. 2015

Agricultural Systems

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Institutional support for smallholders has been the motor for the expanding cotton production sector in southern Mali since the 1970s. Smallholder farms exhibit diverse resource endowments and little is known on how they benefit from and cope with changes in this institutional support. In this paper we explore farm trajectories during two decades (1994 to 2010) and their link with farm resource endowment and government support. We distinguished a favourable period for cotton production and an unfavourable period during which institutional support collapsed. A panel survey that monitored 30 farms in the Koutiala district in southern Mali over this period was analysed. Based on indicators of resource endowment and using Ascending Hierarchical Classification (AHC), farms were grouped into four types: High Resource Endowed farms with Large Herds (HRE-LH), High Resource Endowed (HRE) farms, Medium Resource Endowed (MRE) farms and Low Resource Endowed (LRE) farms. Average yield, labour productivity and food self-sufficiency status of each type were calculated. Farms remaining in the same type were classified as 'hanging in', while farms moving to a type of higher yields, labour productivity and food self-sufficiency status were classified as 'stepping up', and farms following the opposite trajectory of deteriorating farming conditions were classified as 'falling down'. The LRE farms differed from all other farm types due to lower yields, while both LRE and HRE farms differed from the MRE and HRE-LH farm types due to a combination of less labour productivity and less food self-sufficiency. During those two decades, 17% of the farms 'stepped up', while 70% of the farms remained 'hanging in', and only 13% of the farms 'fell down'. We found no obvious negative impact of the collapse of government support on farm trajectories. For MRE, HRE and HRE-LH farms, average N and P use intensity increased from 1994 to 2004 and then decreased during the following cotton crisis. On the other hand, organic fertilizer use intensity increased continuously over the entire monitoring period for HRE-LH and MRE farms. Crop yields did not change significantly over time for any farm type and labour productivity decreased. We discuss how technical options specific for different farm types (increase in farm equipment, sale of cereals, incorporation of legumes and intensification of milk production) and broader institutional change (improvement in finance system and infrastructure, tariffs) can enhance 'step up' trajectories for farming households and avoid stagnation ('hanging in') of the whole agricultural sector.

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“…Structural responses to food insecurity in Mali have primarily consisted of policy reforms to enable increased agricultural production. Such reforms include the Loi d'Orientation Agricole (LOA), a comprehensive agricultural development framework enacted in 2006 that aims to promote sustainable and competitive agriculture in the country (Bélières et al, 2008). This framework advocates for land reform that encourages ownership right to secure long-term investments on agricultural lands.…”

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Multi-scale governance in agriculture systems: Interplay between national and local institutions around the production dimension of food security in Mali

Sidibé

Totin

Thompson-Hall

et al. 2018

NJAS: Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences

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Enforcement of rules and laws designed at the national level is still one of the dominant institutional mechanisms for effective multiscale governance in most countries. At times, such blanket regulations are not only unable to meet practical needs at local levels, but they may conflict with local institutional logics, thereby creating new challenges. This study looks at three institutional arrangements in the agriculture and food security sector in the district of Koutiala, Mali to analyse the institutional variety across scale and the underlying institutional logics. On one side, the Cooperative Law as well as the Seed Law both designed at national level to enable famers' access to agriculture services and improved seeds have yielded mixed results with regard to anticipated outcomes. The cooperative law is believed to degrade the social cohesion and the mutual support on which vulnerable farmers rely when facing climatic and non-climatic risks whereas the new seed system is found onerous and unaffordable for farmers. On the other side, the local convention for the management of natural resources established as part of ongoing decentralised governance policy seems to resonate with local culture but challenged by other stakeholders. Through exploring these cases, this paper tests bricolage as an analytical framework for doing an institutional diagnostic. It aims at contributing to methodological and theoretical insights on the way sustainable institutions can be generated in conflicting institutional logics in the context of multi-scale governance

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Les organisations de producteurs en zone cotonnière au Mali

Cited by 8 publications

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Accountability in agricultural governance and food security in Nigeria

Accountability in agricultural governance and food security in Nigeria

Understanding farm trajectories and development pathways: Two decades of change in southern Mali

Multi-scale governance in agriculture systems: Interplay between national and local institutions around the production dimension of food security in Mali

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