FOOD SECURITY AND NUTRITION IMPACTS OF SMALLHOLDER FARMERS' PARTICIPATION IN DAIRY VALUE CHAIN IN ETHIOPIA

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elias Geday ◽  
Tolossa Degefa ◽  
Padilla Martine ◽  
Montaigne Etienne
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Food Security And Nutrition

scholarly journals Linking Household Food Security and Food Value Chains in North West Mt. Kenya

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 4999
Author(s):  
Veronica Mwangi ◽  
Samuel Owuor ◽  
Boniface Kiteme ◽  
Markus Giger ◽  
Johanna Jacobi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Household Food Security ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
North West ◽  
Household Food ◽  
Food Value

Smallholder farmers and pastoralists produce the largest proportion of food consumed in sub-Saharan Africa. However, they remain among the food insecure populations. This paper explores the food (in)security among smallholder farmers and pastoralists using a sample of 175 households in three agro-food value chains of wheat, dairy, and beef in the north-west Mt. Kenya region. The study seeks to answer if a farmer’s participation in a particular agro-food value chain determines his/her food security situation. We use the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) and two Poisson regression models, parsimonious and full, to assess the household food security status and determinants of food security among the smallholder farmers and pastoralists. The results show that 61% of the households were either mildly, moderately, or severely food insecure. Households in the beef value chain experienced relatively higher incidences of food insecurity compared to households in the wheat and dairy value chains. The HFIAS scores revealed a wide gap between households with minimum and maximum score. Household size, income and income-related variables (ability to save and borrow to meet family needs), transport assets, membership in farmers’ associations, and household energy were significant in determining household food security, while access to credit and to extension services was not. Strategies that focus on boosting smallholder farmers’ incomes, building strong and resilient farmers associations to improve inclusive and equitable value chains have the potential to get smallholder farmers out of recurrent food insecurity.

scholarly journals Does the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition impose biotechnology on smallholder farmers in Africa?

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siera Vercillo ◽  
Vincent Z. Kuuire ◽  
Frederick Ato Armah ◽  
Isaac Luginaah
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Food Security And Nutrition

scholarly journals Enhancing Food Security Through Innovation Platforms: Experiences from Research into Use Project in Rwanda

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-30
Author(s):  
L. Dusengemungu ◽  
P. Kibwika ◽  
FB Kiazze
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
International Development ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
East African ◽  
African Region ◽  
Agricultural Technologies ◽  
Classification Code ◽  
East African Region

Maize is an important food security crop in Rwanda and the East African region, however the maize value chain is not well developed and the productivity is still low partly because of low technology uptake by the smallholder farmers. Since 2006, the Department for International Development (DFID) supported the “Research Into Use” (RIU) programme in Rwanda to  enhance the uptake of agricultural technologies using innovation platforms (IPs). Maize was one of the target crops for intensification particularly in Nyagatare District for which an IP was established. The purpose of the innovation platforms was to faciliate interaction of the key actors in the value chain including farmers, cooperatives, inputs suppliers, processors, traders, credits providers, local leaders, research and extension to establish mutual relationships for value chain development. This study assessed processes of establishing IPs and requirements for their effective operations and sustainability. Data were collected using focus group discussions, observations and interviews. SPSS and SNA softwares were used to analyze data. Through actor interactions in IPs, farmers` problems were prioritized by research; relationships were established between research institutions, NGOs, processors and finance institutions for value addition of maize thereby creating a pull effect for increased production and income.  Increased production, productivity and incomes are core to food security. The IP was a mechanism for developing value chains that provided incentives and means for access to and adoption of technologies for increasing productivity of maize. Hower, functional IPs requires facilitation and capacity building of the actors to interact in a mutually beneficial manner. JEL Classification Code: 031  

scholarly journals Market and Welfare Effects of Food Security Policies on Smallholder Rice Farmers and Consumers in Sierra Leone

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
Mohamed Ajuba Sheriff ◽  
Kepifri A. Lakoh ◽  
Bob K. Conteh ◽  
Tharcisse Nkunzimana
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Welfare Effects ◽  
Rice Production ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Equilibrium System ◽  
Rice Farmers

This research examines the market and welfare effects of three food security policy options in Sierra Leone in response to the high rate of rice importation and rising rice prices over the last decade. These policies aimed at curbing the rate of rice importation, promoting local rice production, and enhancing welfare of smallholder rice farmers in rural communities. The policies investigated included: 1) reinstating tariffs on rice imports, 2) promoting value-chain strengthening interventions that increase production of locally produced rice and 3) instituting a quota (or some quantity restriction) on rice imports. A log-linear comparative static displacement model was used to carry out the analysis. For the first policy, 20%, 30% and 40% shocks were introduced in the equilibrium system to represent decreases in the quantity of rice imported as a result of reinstating tariffs on imported rice. Results revealed that welfare of consumers and or smallholder farmers of locally produced rice was enhanced by 9.4% at a 10% tariff increase and 17.8% at a 20% tariff increase. Consumers of imported rice had their welfare enhanced by 3.5% at a 10% tariff increase while welfare was dis-enhanced by 5.4% at a 20% tariff increase. With a 10% increase in the supply of locally produced rice, there was a corresponding welfare enhancement on smallholder rice farmers and consumers by 14.43% and by 27% for a 20% increase in supply. Marginal increases were recorded for consumers of imported rice. The results show that the optimal policy in the current post-Ebola national recovery environment is one that increases local rice production through cultivation intensification and rice value chain efficiency.

scholarly journals Food security effects of smallholders’ participation in apple and mango value chains in north-western Ethiopia

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mengistie Mossie ◽  
Alemseged Gerezgiher ◽  
Zemen Ayalew ◽  
Asres Elias
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Nearest Neighbor ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Household Food Security ◽  
Rural Ethiopia ◽  
Household Food ◽  
North Western ◽  
Western Ethiopia

Abstract Background While it has identified that linking smallholders in the agri-food value chain remains to be a promising strategy to get out of the poverty trap in many developing countries, less is known about the food security implications of smallholders’ participation in the fruits value chain. This paper examines the effects of apple and mango smallholder farmers’ participation along the value chain, focusing on their household food security in north-western Ethiopia. Methods Primary data for the study were obtained from a random sample of 384 households, 211 of which are fruit value chain participants, and the remainder are non-participants. The study used the propensity score matching (PSM) method to establish a causal relationship between the participation of the fruit value chain and changes in household food security. Results and conclusions Results indicate that participation in the apple and mango value chain has a robust and positive effect on the food security of smallholders as measured by household food consumption in kilocalorie. The unconfoundedness and overlapping assumptions were fulfilled by applying the nearest neighbor and kernel-based matching algorithms. The study confirms that the more apple and mango farmers join the value chain, the higher their household food intake becomes. Support for fruit farmers is, therefore, a promising policy approach that can help improve household food security in rural Ethiopia.

scholarly journals Corporate Scramble for Africa? Towards a postcolonial framework for transglocal development governance

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (9) ◽  
pp. 1213-1233
Author(s):  
Johanna Gammelgaard ◽  
Stine Haakonsson ◽  
Sine N. Just
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
National Level ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Inclusive Development ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Local Practices ◽  
Global Principles ◽  
Food Security And Nutrition

Building on postcolonial critical organization and development studies, this paper explores the neo-colonial drive of a global development initiative. The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition (NA) was launched in 2012 and provides a governance framework for partnerships between donors, governments, and companies that applies principles and practices of market-led growth as means to the end of inclusive development. Through an in-depth, multilevel analysis that juxtaposes the NA’s stipulated framework with the lived experiences of smallholder farmers in Malawi, one of ten African countries to participate in NA, the paper shows how local consequences are decoupled from global goals through governance gaps in both the horizontal and vertical dynamics of implementation. This decoupling of intention and consequence, we argue, happens at the national level of translating global principles into local practices. On the basis of this analysis, we suggest that vertical and horizontal governance must be integrated in one framework. Thus, we contribute to ongoing efforts to improve the theory and practice of the organization of development by introducing a framework of transglocal governance.

Food Security and Rural Livelihoods in the Doldrums: Exploring Alternatives for Sanyati through Sustainable Development Goals

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tinashe Mitchell Mashizha ◽  
Munyaradzi Admire Dzvimbo
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Rural Livelihoods ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Food Security And Nutrition

The topical issue of sustainable development has received significant attention from scholars, social commentators and decision-makers, yet it seems there is a gap with regard to the examination of alternatives and sustainable methods of combating food insecurity. This article makes a number of observations that point to a deepening food insecurity, and it makes recommendations to avert further catastrophes. Findings from the study indicate that the Sanyati district in Zimbabwe faces perennial food shortages and relies on government food handouts, drought relief and donor food aid. The study found that command agriculture (a government initiative) is perceived as a catalyst for ensuring food security and nutrition and enhancing self-sufficiency among smallholder farmers in rural communities. Knowledge of sustainable development goals can lead to an expanded understanding of food security in general and the manifestations of alternative rural livelihoods strategies in particular. In this article, we recommend the implementation of climate-smart agriculture at local and national levels to help farmers adapt to the changing climatic conditions. However, there is a need to make subsidised inputs available in time so as to increase household adaptive capacity and improve livelihoods.

Command Agriculture and Food Security: An Interrogation of State Intervention in the Post-Fast Track Land Redistribution Era in Zimbabwe

2020 ◽  
pp. 002190962097933
Author(s):  
Langton Makuwerere Dube
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Fast Track ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Contract Farming ◽  
Credit Access ◽  
Land Redistribution ◽  
Agriculture And Food ◽  
Fiscal Prudence

Command agriculture is a contract farming scheme necessitated by land redistribution that ruptured Zimbabwe’s sources of resilience, distorted credit access, heightened tenure insecurity, and spiked vulnerability to droughts. Using qualitative analysis of extant literature, this article rationalizes the program’s nobility of cause but argues that the program alone cannot revamp agriculture. Notwithstanding how the program has evolved, revamping agriculture also encompasses policies that address fiscal prudence and macroeconomic resilience. Equally important is agricultural training that fosters skills and technologies that are not only climate-responsive but also meet the demands of the constantly evolving agrarian value chain.

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