scholarly journals Agricultural Investment Corridors in Africa: Does Smallholder and Women's Participation Count?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Smalley ◽  
Emmanuel Sulle ◽  
Ngala Chome ◽  
Ana Duarte ◽  
Euclides Gonçalves
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Agricultural Investment ◽  
Development Finance ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Complex Projects ◽  
Meaningful Engagement ◽  
International Donors

Agricultural development corridors and clusters are highly complex projects that have been driven in Africa by agribusiness and mining corporations, host governments, international donors and development finance institutions. There is interest in whether these projects can support inclusive agribusiness. Evidence shows that involvement of small-scale economic actors in such initiatives is often impeded by a failure to grant them participation or a voice. We therefore investigated if and how recent corridors and clusters in Africa have been able to achieve the meaningful engagement of small-scale economic actors, with a focus on smallholders, including pastoralists, and the women among them.

scholarly journals The Investment Attractiveness of the Agricultural Sector in Republic of Moldova in Terms of European Integration

2018 ◽  
Vol 18(33) (3) ◽  
pp. 315-322
Author(s):  
Elena Timofti ◽  
Paulina Osborne ◽  
Svetlana Petrascu ◽  
Daniela Popa
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rates ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
National Bureau ◽  
Food Sector ◽  
Agricultural Investment ◽  
Republic Of Moldova ◽  
Funding Sources ◽  
International Donors

The modernization of the Agro-food sector, and revitalization of its conditions and standards, needs to attract funding sources from international donors, which helps stimulate the development of high value agriculture. Consequently, attracting agricultural investment is a strategic priority for Moldovan farmers, as this represents tangible economic growth based on retooling and modernization of agriculture. The National Bureau of Statistics ranks Moldova second in relation to the interest rates charged for loans. The average annual interest rate for lending to agriculture is 14.13%. Georgia in first place with 29%. Despite all the successes of banking, agriculture (as a sector) still remains an unattractive investment for banks in Moldova. The banking sector has also expressed reluctance in supporting small-scale agribusiness.

scholarly journals Rural Uncommoning

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-50
Author(s):  
Nicola J. Bidwell
Keyword(s):  
Global South ◽  
Community Networks ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Communal Identity ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Rural Governance ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Local Telecommunications

Shared use of small-scale natural commons is vital to the livelihoods of billions of rural inhabitants, particularly women, and advocates propose that local telecommunications systems that are oriented by the commons can close rural connectivity gaps. This article extends insights about women's exclusion from such Community Networks (CNs) by considering ‘commoning’, or practices that produce, reproduce and use the commons and create communality. I generated data in interviews and observations of rural CNs in seven countries in the Global South and in multi-sited ethnography of international advocacy for CNs. Male biases in technoculture and rural governance limit women's participation in CNs, and women adopt different approaches to performing their communal identity while using technology. This situation contributes to detaching CNs from relations that are produced in women's commoning. It also illustrates processes that co-opt the commons in rural technology endeavours and the diverse ways commoners express their subjectivities in response.

scholarly journals A Threat of Farmers’ Suicide and the Opportunity in Organic Farming for Sustainable Agricultural Development in India

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 2400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karthikeyan Mariappan ◽  
Deyi Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Organic Farming ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Conventional Farming ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Small Scale Farmers ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Input Cost

Agriculture is the main sources of income for humans. Likewise, agriculture is the backbone of the Indian economy. In India, Tamil Nadu regional state has a wide range of possibilities to produce all varieties of organic products due to its diverse agro-climatic condition. This research aimed to identify the economics and efficiency of organic farming, and the possibilities to reduce farmers’ suicides in the Tamil Nadu region through the organic agriculture concept. The emphasis was on farmers, producers, researchers, and marketers entering the sustainable economy through organic farming by reducing input cost and high profit in cultivation. A survey was conducted to gather data. One way analysis of variance (ANOVA) has been used to test the hypothesis regards the cost and profit of rice production. The results showed that there was a significant difference in profitability between organic and conventional farming methods. It is very transparent that organic farming is the leading concept of sustainable agricultural development with better organic manures that can improve soil fertility, better yield, less input cost and better return than conventional farming. The study suggests that by reducing the cost of cultivation and get a marginal return through organic farming method to poor and small scale farmers will reduce socio-economic problems such as farmers’ suicides in the future of Indian agriculture.

scholarly journals Analysis of the effects of Zimbabwean white farmers on small scale farming in Nigeria

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Olaniyi Adewumi ◽  
Ayodele Jimoh ◽  
Olubunmi Abayomi Omotesho
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Policy Option ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
The World ◽  
White Farmers ◽  
Local Farmers

Many observers believe that the on-going liberalization of the world will have dramatic negative effects on small farmers in both developed and developing countries. This study aims to capture the effects of the presence of foreign migrant farmers on small scale farm­ing systems, which are prevalent in Nigeria. The Agricultural Development Project Zone D in which the white farmers settled in the state of Kwara, was used as a case study. Primary data were collected from white farmers as well as from local farmers regarding their situ­ation before and after the arrival of white farmers. Descriptive statistics and analysis of the farm budget were used in evaluating the data. The majority of local farmers (98.63%) transitioned towards sole cropping since the arrival of white farmers in the area. There were significant increases in seed rate, fertilizer and other chemicals, as well as labor inputs per farmer in the area when compared to the situation that was prevalent before the white farmers settled there. Their average farm size, distances between their houses and farms and tractor use reduced significantly, while output per farm size increased considerably since the arrival of white farmers in the area. In order to provide sustainability of the posi­tive development, there is the need to seek a policy option that will calm local farmers who once in a while exhibit signs of dissatisfaction for the way in which white farmers came to settle on their land. These could be achieved through the use of the participatory approach to agricultural development in the area. This approach could also be relevant in other re­gions of the world with similar situations. 

Analysing agricultural investment from the realities of small-scale food providers: grounding the debates

2020 ◽  
pp. 122-140
Author(s):  
Christina M. Schiavoni ◽  
Salena Tramel ◽  
Hannah Twomey ◽  
Benedict S. Mongula
Keyword(s):  
Small Scale ◽  
Agricultural Investment

Agricultural Investment Risk Relationship to National Domestic Production

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Ehimare Omankhanlen
Keyword(s):  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Investment Risk ◽  
Positive Finding ◽  
Domestic Production ◽  
Agricultural Investment ◽  
Ordinary Least Square ◽  
National Production

This empirical case study investigated the uncertainty of agricultural investment schemes in Nigeria and their relationship to national domestic production. Government administrations have invested a substantial amount of money into the agricultural sector, yet thus far, there have been very few visible results to show for it. The private sector does not seem to be interested in developing agriculture even with government incentives. The purpose of this study is to identify investment risk factors for national agriculture development as perceived by business stakeholders. Ordinary Least Square (OLS) was then used to examine the strength of the cause-effect relationship for the agricultural investment factors in terms of expected domestic production. The findings were that there was no significant relationship between commercial bank credit granting to businesses for agricultural development and therefore no impact on national domestic production. On the other hand, the regression analysis did support the hypotheses that there was a significant relationship between government funding towards the agricultural sector and national domestic production as well as a significant relationship between the public agriculture credit guarantee scheme and national domestic production, respectively. Based on this positive finding, the study closes with several unique recommendations for policy makers in order to stimulate the investment into the agricultural sector to increase national production.

Concentrate on Industry, Give Some Money and Subsidies to Agriculture Will this attitude Revive Industrial Growth

Paradigm ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-81
Author(s):  
Rakesh Singh
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Vicious Circle ◽  
Industrial Growth ◽  
Agricultural Growth ◽  
Agricultural Investment

The article analyses the budgetary allocations for agriculture and rural development and suggests what needs to be done to enhance agricultural growth. There is a dire need to increase investment in agriculture so that the vicious circle trap can be broken up and economy could achieve high agricultural growth rate in real terms. The major stumbling block in agricultural development has been the falling agricultural investment since the mid eighties. It is thus necessary to reverse the trend.

scholarly journals Chinese and Indian Agriculture: A Broad Comparison of Recent Policy and Performance

1970 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 515-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pranab K. Bardhan
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Land Policy ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Substantial Part ◽  
Absolute Level ◽  
Indian Agriculture ◽  
Land Relations ◽  
Chinese Policy ◽  
And Performance

AbstractsIn both China and India agriculture is the key sector and yet detailed comparisons of agricultural development in the two economies are difficult to obtain. A major problem is, of course, the availability and reliability of data. This paper puts together some of the information that is now available and assesses its reliability to draw some rough generalizations.On the whole it seems that agricultural production in the two countries has grown at fairly similar rates. In terms of absolute level Chinese yield per hectare in most crops, of course, exceeds that of India by a significant margin, but this has been true for quite a long time in the past.In provision of inputs like organic and inorganic fertilizers and irrigation water the Chinese performance has been much better than that of India. Both countries have devoted not a very low proportion of their total gross investment to the agricultural sector. But the effectiveness of this investment has been quite unsatisfactory on account of, among other things, technical deficiencies and faulty planning in both countries, and the excesses of over enthusiastic but unskilled party cadres in China and a very much restricted framework of village institutions and administrative setup in India. In land policy much of the period under consideration was taken up in China in bold experimentations—with the inevitable advances and retreats—in search of the optimum size of land management in a backward peasant economy, while in India in spite of copious land legislation some of the crucial land relations have remained basically unaltered. The Chinese policy of moving away from age-old small-scale family farming and of emphasizing joint management of land and labour has, on the one hand, significantly strained peasant incentives, but on the other hand rid Chinese agriculture of the burden of uneconomically small and fragmented holdings, tenurial insecurity and crop sharing which still afflict a substantial part of Indian agriculture. The problem of ensuring enough marketed surplus of foodgrains to feed the nonagricultural sector has, however, remained unsolved in both countries, in spite of all changes in institutions and production.

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