Agricultural commercialization and nutrition; evidence from smallholder coffee farmers

Asselt, Joanna Van; Useche, Pilar

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.106021

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“…This is partially explained by their poverty status and their high dependency on coffee, making them more vulnerable to external shocks such as climate hazards and variability of international coffee prices. Similar evidence from Guatemala reveals that households with coffee income dependence have less access to food and less agricultural income than households with coffee and food intercrops (Lopez-Ridaura et al, 2019;van Asselt and Useche, 2022). Bacon et al (2021), reported that diversified and better incomes for farmers' households has a positive correlation with their food security in Nicaragua.…”

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Local food system and household responses to external shocks: the case of sustainable coffee farmers and their cooperatives in Western Honduras during COVID-19

Rodriguez-Camayo,

Lundy,

Borgemeister

et al. 2024

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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IntroductionThe COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns (people confined to home, with movement restrictions) presented an external shock to livelihoods and food systems worldwide, most severely affecting vulnerable households in low-income countries. While evidence is available regarding how COVID-19 generally affected low-income countries, the specific dynamics of local food-system responses and sustainably-certified coffee farm households has not been examined, despite them being usually deemed to be more resilient to shocks. This research examines how local food systems in Honduras changed during lockdowns, how certified coffee households coped with the shock, especially food insecurity, and the potential role of coffee cooperatives in increasing households’ resilience under future shocks and stressors.MethodsWe applied a mixed-methods approach that combined a structured household survey with semi-structured qualitative interviews with 91 households, 6 cooperative representatives, and 18 food-system representatives.ResultsWe found that coffee-income-dependent households experienced greater food insecurity during lockdown than coffee households with diversified incomes. Before lockdown the local food system was highly dependent on external fresh food from outside the state. Food suppliers changed altered fresh-food procurement strategies, mostly to maintain fresh-food availability at the beginning of the pandemic. However, more than half the interviewed households lacked confidence regarding food security, amid rising food prices and local shortages. Certified coffee cooperatives supported their members by providing food assistance, cash transfers, and credit.DiscussionSome of these strategies are difficult to maintain where crises are recurrent and that may render households more vulnerable to future extreme events. Rather, coffee cooperatives could diversify and support their members in growing and marketing additional food crops. This could be a key approach for boosting local food security and strengthening the local food system.

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Section: Impacts On Coffee Households and The Local Food Systemmentioning

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Local food system and household responses to external shocks: the case of sustainable coffee farmers and their cooperatives in Western Honduras during COVID-19

Rodriguez-Camayo,

Lundy,

Borgemeister

et al. 2024

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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“…Besides these livelihood and welfare implications of smallholder commercialization, contrasting food security, dietary quality, and nutritional benefits have been established. While Ogutu et al (2020) found commercialization 1 to increase food security and dietary quality, specifically calorie and micronutrient consumption, van Asselt and Useche (2022) rather found commercialization to lead to overweight and obesity with decreasing autonomy over female plot management. Earlier insights from some cross‐country analysis found little or no relationship between commercialization and nutrition (Carletto et al, 2017).…”

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Complementary technology adoption and smallholder commercialization: Panel data evidence from Ethiopia

Tabe‐Ojong,

Geffersa

2024

Applied Eco Perspectives Pol

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Agricultural transformation involves the transition from subsistence agriculture marked by cultivating crops for auto‐consumption to cultivating crops for output markets. This transition from subsistence agriculture to market‐oriented agriculture can be a key policy boost to economic development, but evidence on the key entry points to increasing smallholder commercialization remains scarce. We examine the relationship between the adoption of improved maize varieties (IMVs), inorganic fertilizers, and smallholder commercialization. We model commercialization as a two‐step decision process involving market participation and the extent of participation (sales quantity) conditional on participation. Given these two related steps, we estimate a double‐hurdle model in both linear and non‐linear forms. Employing a three‐wave panel dataset from Ethiopia, we use the household fixed effects and correlated random effects model with the control function approach. We find the adoption of IMVs to be significantly associated with both market participation and the extent of participation. This relationship is also true for fertilizers, where we show a positive association between fertilizer use and commercialization. Given the seeming complementarity in the use of both IMVs and fertilizers, we further estimate their joint adoption. We use the multinomial endogenous switching regression model where we show greater commercialization gains under joint adoption. These findings are in line with a growing literature supporting the bundling of agricultural technologies. Given these insights, we provide empirical and policy support to the scaling of agricultural technologies as they have the potential to induce agricultural transformation by unlocking market opportunities.

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Nontariff measures and production allocation decisions of cereal farmers in Ghana

Onumah,

Martey,

Brümmer

2023

Agribusiness

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Using exogenous variation in trade shocks, this study examines the association between nontariff measures and cereal production allocation decisions among commercial farmers in Ghana. We study nontariff measures from both an extensive (experience of nontariff measures) and an intensive (cost of nontariff measures) perspective using a sample of 455 cereal farmers in Ghana. We employ the seemingly (un)related regression (SURE) and the inverse probability weighting with regression adjustment (IPWRA) to estimate the effect of nontariff measures on production allocation decisions. The result shows that nontariff measures are associated with lower cereal production and intensity of cereal commercialization but positively associated with the consumption of cereals. The results are robust after controlling for potential endogeneity using the Lewbel 2SLS. In addition, we find that our results are not likely to be driven by unobserved heterogeneity. We find evidence of consistent and robust estimates of nontariff measures when the IPWRA model is applied and compared to the SURE estimates. Overall, our study shows that nontariff measures can be a depressive pathway to cereal sustainable production and commercialization with associated policy implications for economic development [EconLit Citations: F1, F13, E23, Q13].

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Agricultural commercialization and nutrition; evidence from smallholder coffee farmers

Cited by 18 publications

References 27 publications

Local food system and household responses to external shocks: the case of sustainable coffee farmers and their cooperatives in Western Honduras during COVID-19

Local food system and household responses to external shocks: the case of sustainable coffee farmers and their cooperatives in Western Honduras during COVID-19

Complementary technology adoption and smallholder commercialization: Panel data evidence from Ethiopia

Nontariff measures and production allocation decisions of cereal farmers in Ghana

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