Beyond the Field: The Impact of Farmer Field Schools on Food Security and Poverty Alleviation

Larsen, Anna Folke; Lilleør, Helene Bie

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.07.003

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“…Available evidence of interventions involving the distribution of agricultural technologies is summarized in Table 7. Larsen and Lilleør (2014) report evidence from a farmer field school intervention in Tanzania and demonstrate that participating households were less likely to report suffering from hunger. There was also a consistent impact on the likelihood of children having at least three meals per day.…”

Section: Agricultural Interventionsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Evolution and Impact of EU Aid for Food and Nutrition Security: A Review

Cockx

Francken

2016

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractIn the aftermath of the world food price crisis, the issue of food and nutrition security has received a high level of political attention and the international donor community has repeatedly underlined its commitment to combat hunger in the world. In order to enhance the effectiveness of the international community's efforts in addressing the widespread problem of malnutrition, we need to improve our knowledge on what activities donors are currently engaging in and which interventions have been shown to be successful. This paper offers both an overview of the aid for food and nutrition security landscape and how it has changed and an extensive review of the available evidence on the impact of a wide array of interventions aimed at addressing all four dimensions of food and nutrition security; availability, access, utilization and stability. We find that despite the renewed interest and elevated levels of funding for food and nutrition security assistance in developing countries, the empirical evidence base for the effectiveness of these interventions in improving beneficiaries' food and nutrition security -although in several cases promising -is weak. In particular, the question whether different interventions improve the quality of food consumption and consequently nutrient intake and status, remains largely unanswered. Moreover, few studies assess longer-term effects and there exists relatively little rigorous evidence that compares different interventions. It is therefore strongly recommended to undertake additional research to improve the evidence base as this would allow researchers and policy makers to establish the type of approaches that improve food and nutrition security in the most efficient and cost-effective manner. Finally, in order to facilitate this process, there is a need for a clear and uniform definition of food and nutrition security assistance on the one hand as well as agreed upon, comprehensive indicators on the other hand.JEL Codes F35, F53, I380, O12, O13, O15.

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Section: Agricultural Interventionsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Evolution and Impact of EU Aid for Food and Nutrition Security: A Review

Cockx

Francken

2016

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“…Initiatives were taken to minimize technological gap in subsistence farming, a characteristic of most developing countries wherein communities rely on farming for food security and income generation (Larsen & Lilleor, 2014). Studies hadfound that extent of adoption of farm practices were influenced by variables such as education, operational landholding, extension contact, innovation proneness and decision making ability (Singha & Baruah, 2012).…”

Section: Technology Advancement For Livelihoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing behaviour of farmers in linking to village institution: dairy society’s perspective from semiarid regions, Gujarat, India

Choudhary¹,

Rk²,

Kumar³

2016

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Dairy Co-operative Societies (DCS) in India are an important entity in linking smallholder livestock producers with external market. This helps smallholder producer(s) in occupational diversification and gainful income. These economically important institutions also serve social purposes. Co-operative member farmers get an opportunity to interact among themselves as well members outside their society. In semiarid regions, the nature of dependence on these institutions among communities for their livelihood becomes particularly more important. The present study appreciates behaviour of farmers to supply milk to dairy society in Panchmahal district, a semiarid region of Gujarat state, India. The relationship pattern of socioeconomic variables viz., age, education, land size and total milk production were assessed towards linkage of farmers with this particular village institution. The nature of such linkage by society with local institutions often determines technological refinement, intervention and adoption. The study did not find any significant relationship for variables like age, education and total milk production in respect to farmers approaching milk cooperative societies. However, land holding size among respondents appeared to be a significant factor towards supply of milk to societies/society. This clearly demonstrates importance of identifying and understanding variables that can influence livestock interventions through dairy societies. The developmental intermediations must take this into account for welfare of farmers in semiarid region.

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“…This is a major issue in the case of FFSs, where more motivated and entrepreneurial individuals are likely to self-select into the program, leading to a positive bias in the program's evaluation (Larsen and Lilleor 2014). In the AFA case, however, the choice to participate in the JFFS was not made by the children themselves: the program's participants were identified by AVSI together with the school management and the local authorities.…”

Section: Sampling and Datamentioning

confidence: 99%