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Author : Pratap S. Birthal, Awadhesh K. Jha, Marites M. Tiongco, and Clare Narrod
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Bernard, Tanguy,Hidrobo, Melissa,Le Port, Agnès,Rawat, Rahul
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Health-related incentives to reward effort or commitment are commonplace in many professional contracts throughout the world. Typically absent from small-scale agriculture in poor countries, such incentives may help overcome both health issues for remote rural families and supply issues for firms. Using a randomized control design, we investigate the impact of adding a micronutrient-fortified product in contracts between a Senegalese dairy processing factory and its seminomadic milk suppliers. Findings show significant increases in frequency of delivery but only limited impacts on total milk delivered. These impacts are time sensitive and limited mostly to households where women are more in control of milk contracts.
Author : Kydd, Jonathon
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
This paper reports on an ex-post assessment of IFPRI’s research on High-Value Agriculture (HVA) over 1994–2010. HVA is defined to include perishable agricultural commodities produced for the market that yield high returns to land, labor, or both. IFPRI’s research on HVA has been housed mainly in GRP27 (Participation in high value agricultural markets). Questions for the study included whether IFPRI had the right research strategy for this topic; was focused on the right issues; was a leader in the field; used the most relevant approaches and methods; and was successful in sensitizing/influ-encing the policies of governments, agribusiness, academia, civil society, and the international donor community. Finally, what has been the impact of the HVA policies that IFPRI influenced?
Author : Mishra, Ashok K.,Kumar, Anjani,Joshi, Pramod Kumar,D’Souza, Alwin,Tripathi, Gaurav
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
This study investigates the impact of contract farming (CF) in baby corn production on yield, irrigation costs, fertilizer costs and usage of chemical fertilizer. We find that adoption of CF by baby corn smallholders, after controlling for characteristics of both control and treatment groups, leads to higher yields and lower spending on fertilizers and irrigation. Additionally, CF in baby corn farming leads to a reduction in the use of chemical fertilizers (Urea and DAP). Thus, CF intervention benefits the livelihood of smallholders, reduces environmental degradation and reduces stress on groundwater without compromising yield.
Author : Gyanendra Mani,P.K. Joshi,M.V. Ashok
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811059575
This book examines the successful private, public and civil society models of agriculture value chains in India and addresses relevant challenges and opportunities to improve their efficiency and inclusiveness. It promotes the value-chain approach as a tool to improve access to finance for small holder farmers and discusses the possible structure of and regulatory framework for the ‘National Common Agricultural Market’— a term that featured in the Indian Finance Minister’s 2014–15 budget speech, and which is aimed towards standardizing and improving transparency in agricultural trade practices across states under a single licensing system. The book deliberates on the potential of developing innovative financial instruments into the value chain framework by supporting tripartite agreements between producers, lead firms and financial institutions. Its fourteen chapters are divided into three parts—Agriculture Value Chain Financing: Theoretical Framework, Agriculture Value Chain Financing in Cases of Select Commodities; and Institutional Framework for Agriculture Value Chain Financing. Since the concept of value chain financing is being considered as a future policy agenda, the book is of great interest to corporations dealing with agricultural inputs and outputs; commercial, regional, rural and cooperative banks; policy makers; academicians and NGOs.
Author : Birthal, Pratap S.,Chand, Ramesh,Joshi, Pramod Kumar,Saxena, Raka,Rajkhowa, Pallavi,Khan, Md. Tajuddin,Khan, Mohd Arshad,Chaudhary, Khyali R.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Despite a growing dairy industry in India, farmers’ lack of access to organized markets and institutional credit remains one of the major hindrances in improving the scale and productivity of dairying. Using data from a survey of 612 households from the state of Punjab, India, this paper evaluates farmers’ choices of dairy value chains and their financing mechanisms. The study finds that 62 percent of the sample farmers representing 69 percent of the total milk sales are connected with formal value chains driven by cooperatives, multinational companies and private domestic processors. Small dairy farmers are associated more with informal value chains but they are not excluded from the formal value chains. The performance of different value chains in terms of productivity and profitability of dairying is almost on par. Also, there is hardly any difference in the milk price offered by formal and informal buyers pointing towards milk market being competitive. More than half of the farmers borrow credit both from within and outside the chain for dairying related activities. Chain-based financing is restricted to only one-fourth of the borrowers and mostly to those associated with informal value chains. Financing by commercial banks and other financial institutions is limited to only 9 percent of the borrowers, mainly larger farmers. The socially-disadvantaged and smallholder farmers are often neglected in institutional lending because of their lack of physical assets to use as collateral against loans. Value chain approach, due to its product market orientation, can serve as an entry point for financial institutions to improve their outreach to smallholders. The innovative financial products, such as ‘dairy credit card’ and ‘contract as collateral’ would enable them to adopt yield-enhancing technology and inputs and also to scale up their dairy activity.
Author : Jordan Chamberlin
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Jan Schüpbach
Publisher : vdf Hochschulverlag AG
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783728137197
Foreign direct investment in agriculture and land has increased substantially since the 2007–2008 food price crisis. However, there is a severe lack of quantitative evidence on its economic impact. Therefore, the primary goal of this study was to collect and analyze empirical evidence, in order to better understand the potential benefits and pitfalls of such investments and related processes of agricultural commercialization. In particular, the study tests the effect of two strategies for including smallholder farmers into modern food supply chains: 1. Outgrower schemes, i.e. a type of contract farming whereby small-scale farmers produce crops for large-scale farming enterprises 2. Wage employment on large-scale estates The central part of the study looks at one specific investment project in the Zambian sugar cane sector. This sectoral focus was supplemented by a broader, cross sectoral analysis of a large, nationally representative panel survey. Overall, the evidence suggests that large-scale investments by foreign as well as domestic companies, and especially the model of cooperation with smallholder farmers in outgrower schemes, can indeed have positive and significant effects on the income and wealth of rural households.
Author : United Nations ESCAP
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789210475716
The Asia-Pacific Sustainable Development Journal (APSDJ) aims to stimulate debate and enrich research in the formulation of policy in the Asia-Pacific region towards the fulfilment of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Published twice a year, the APSDJ is a rebranded journal of the United Nations Economic and Social Commision for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) that builds on the success of two earlier journals - the Asia-Pacific Development Journal (APDJ), which has been published since 1994, and the Asia-Pacific Population Journal (APPJ), since 1986. These journals are being merged in recognition of the interconnected and multidisciplinary nature of sustainable development.
Author : Latha Nagarajan, Patrick Audi, and Richard Jones
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : David Orden, Jean-Christophe Bureau, Alexandre Gohin, Loïc Guindé, Guy Millet, Antônio Salazar P. Brandão, Stephen Haley, Owen Wagner, David Orden, Ron Sandrey and Nick Vink
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Caesar Cororaton
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Antoine Bouët, Simon Mevel, and Marcelle Thomas
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Xinshen Diao, Shenggen Fan, Derek Headey, Michael Johnson, Alejandro Nin Pratt, and Bingxin Yu
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Jere R. Behrman, John Hoddinott, John A. Maluccio, Erica Soler-Hampejsek, Emily L. Behrman, Reynaldo Martorell, Manuel Ramírez-Zea, and Aryeh D. Stein
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
