Agricultural seasonality, market access, and food security in Sierra Leone

Bonuedi, Isaac; Kornher, Lukas; Gerber, Nicolas

doi:10.1007/s12571-021-01242-z

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“…Different researches have focused to address the seasonal variation in smallholders’ income by providing easy access to state-oriented consumption and utilization loans through involvement of stakeholders at national and local scales during the hunger and stress seasons ( Bonuedi et al, 2021 ). The cognition to smooth income empowered farmers to generate larger and, in few instances, to a greater extent profitable investments that boosted outputs and food utilization.…”

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Uncovering the Research Gaps to Alleviate the Negative Impacts of Climate Change on Food Security: A Review

Uzair²,

et al. 2022

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Climatic variability has been acquiring an extensive consideration due to its widespread ability to impact food production and livelihoods. Climate change has the potential to intersperse global approaches in alleviating hunger and undernutrition. It is hypothesized that climate shifts bring substantial negative impacts on food production systems, thereby intimidating food security. Vast developments have been made addressing the global climate change, undernourishment, and hunger for the last few decades, partly due to the increase in food productivity through augmented agricultural managements. However, the growing population has increased the demand for food, putting pressure on food systems. Moreover, the potential climate change impacts are still unclear more obviously at the regional scales. Climate change is expected to boost food insecurity challenges in areas already vulnerable to climate change. Human-induced climate change is expected to impact food quality, quantity, and potentiality to dispense it equitably. Global capabilities to ascertain the food security and nutritional reasonableness facing expeditious shifts in biophysical conditions are likely to be the main factors determining the level of global disease incidence. It can be apprehended that all food security components (mainly food access and utilization) likely be under indirect effect via pledged impacts on ménage, incomes, and damages to health. The corroboration supports the dire need for huge focused investments in mitigation and adaptation measures to have sustainable, climate-smart, eco-friendly, and climate stress resilient food production systems. In this paper, we discussed the foremost pathways of how climate change impacts our food production systems as well as the social, and economic factors that in the mastery of unbiased food distribution. Likewise, we analyze the research gaps and biases about climate change and food security. Climate change is often responsible for food insecurity issues, not focusing on the fact that food production systems have magnified the climate change process. Provided the critical threats to food security, the focus needs to be shifted to an implementation oriented-agenda to potentially cope with current challenges. Therefore, this review seeks to have a more unprejudiced view and thus interpret the fusion association between climate change and food security by imperatively scrutinizing all factors.

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confidence: 99%

Uncovering the Research Gaps to Alleviate the Negative Impacts of Climate Change on Food Security: A Review

Uzair²,

et al. 2022

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“…The distance to the depot can also be understood as the degree of market development. If a family is far from the depot, the time for household maize sales may be reduced (Bonuedi et al , 2022). The average distance between a house and the nearest depot is 7.77 kilometres.…”

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Storage losses, market development and household maize-selling decisions in China

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Dong²,

Han³

et al. 2022

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to analyse the impacts of storage losses and market development on the maize-selling behaviours of rural households in China.Design/methodology/approachBased on the survey data of 543 households from nine major maize production provinces in China, the authors introduce storage losses to a household's maize-selling decision-making model and use fractional logit model and ordered probit model to empirically analyse the impact of maize storage losses and market development on household maize-selling decisions in China. To overcome potential endogeneity problems, the authors select the weather at drying (whether bad weather occurs during the drying process) and harvest loss as instrumental variables and re-estimate the model.FindingsThe results show that increased storage losses prompt farmers to increase the proportion of maize sold within three months after harvest and sell maize in advance. Meanwhile, the degree of market development has a significant impact on farmers' maize-selling decisions. Other factors, such as the maize output, non-agricultural employment and awareness of loss control, also affect farmers' maize-selling behaviours.Research limitations/implicationsThe government should promote advanced storage facilities, reduce household storage losses, decrease the phenomenon of centralised sales after harvest and help farmers freely choose the suitable time for sales. The government also needs to strengthen market information releases and publicity, reduce transaction costs and help farmers make reasonable sales decisions.Originality/valueThe authors introduce storage losses as a separate variable in a farmer's grain-selling decision model to empirically analyse the impact of storage losses on farmers' grain-selling behaviours. Moreover, the authors analyse the impact of market development on household grain-selling behaviours in China. These findings can help avoid oversupply in the market during the harvest season and alleviate the pressure on the market from the supply and demand imbalance. These results are also beneficial for farmers waiting for a higher price and increasing their income.

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“…This duration of food storage may affect the food security and household income of smallholder farmers especially if they lack better storage technologies. While food production is a seasonal activity, food consumption is an ongoing activity that must be met regularly and adequately [45]. Farmers should thus be able to store enough food to meet their household food and income needs during the lean periods.…”

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Grain Hermetic Storage Adoption in Northern Uganda: Awareness, Use, and the Constraints to Technology Adoption

Okori¹,

Cherotich²,

Abaca³

et al. 2022

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Post-harvest storage losses (PHLs) remain significant in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) due to several factors mainly insect pests and molds. Hermetic storage technologies (HSTs) are being promoted to address these storage losses. In Uganda, HSTs were first introduced in 2012. However, its use among farming households remains low today. Data were collected from 306 smallholder farmers from four districts of Northern Uganda using a pre-tested semistructured questionnaire to understand their knowledge, use, and constraints to the adoption of hermetic storage. A multivariate Logit regression model was used to find the significance of the factors affecting adoption. Results showed low awareness and use of hermetic storage among smallholder farmers. Only 53.3% of the interviewed farmers were aware of the use of hermetic storage for grain storage. The SuperGrain bag was the most known form of hermetic storage (35.3%), followed by the Purdue Improved Crop Storage (PICS) bag (34.9%), metallic silo (15.5%), and plastic silo (14.4%). Hermetic storage use was even lower as only 17.6% of the surveyed farmers were using one or more forms of hermetic storage to store their grains. Insect pest management without chemical insecticides was the main reason (83.1%) for hermetic storage use. About 75.5% of those aware of hermetic storage had received training in the technology. Hermetic storage use in farming households led to improved food availability, household income, and nutrition. Lack of local availability (50.2%), high costs (37.8%), and inadequate knowledge (6.

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Agricultural seasonality, market access, and food security in Sierra Leone

Cited by 33 publications

References 48 publications

Uncovering the Research Gaps to Alleviate the Negative Impacts of Climate Change on Food Security: A Review

Uncovering the Research Gaps to Alleviate the Negative Impacts of Climate Change on Food Security: A Review

Storage losses, market development and household maize-selling decisions in China

Grain Hermetic Storage Adoption in Northern Uganda: Awareness, Use, and the Constraints to Technology Adoption

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