Difficult access to advisory services for small farms : the situation in Mayotte

Rebuffel, Pierre; Lemoine, Camille Thevenin; Faure, Guy

doi:10.1684/agr.2015.0771

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“…This is in line with the work of Birner et al (2009) and Bruce (2019). These results also show that agro-suppliers disseminate conventional practices, with little consideration of environmental issues, despite the expectations of some farmers, especially small family farms, as observed by other authors in Algeria (Ouendeno et al, 2015) or elsewhere Rebuffel, 2015;Bekkar et al, 2015).…”

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“…This trend is particularly prevalent in developing countries, where institutional arrangements between public farm advisory systems and private companies enable the latter to guide the decisions of agricultural producers and disseminate practices that align with their commercial interests (Compagnone et al, 2015). This has led to the emergence and extension of the intensive production model, particularly in certain so-called high value-added agricultural sectors (Rebuffel et al, 2015). It has also led to the mobilization of the various actors in the institutional environment around the promotion of this model.…”

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The spread of the intensive agricultural model by agro-suppliers in Algeria: implications for citrus small family farms and their adaptations

Boudedja,

Ameur,

Bouzid

et al. 2024

Cah. Agric.

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This study aims to investigate how small family farms, lacking direct support from advisory services, cope with challenges including access constraints to resources, and enhance their resilience. Investigations conducted in the wilaya of Blida, Algeria, through surveys of 17 input suppliers and citrus growers, revealed how the institutional context, particularly that of private agricultural 241 advisory, incentivizes farms to adopt hyper-intensive agriculture by using more agro-chemicals. Indeed, the arrival of input suppliers into the agricultural advisory landscape has resulted in socio-economic differentiation between farms, with small and most vulnerable farms resisting these intensive models. The results show that even if these small farms face difficulties in existing in the face of the big ones supported by the institutional environment, particularly the private sector, resilience factors have been identified that enable these farms to resist to the steamroller of the intensive model: solidarity between small family farms, pluriactivity, and taking advantage of some state support measures and the public-private partnership of farm advisory services.

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The spread of the intensive agricultural model by agro-suppliers in Algeria: implications for citrus small family farms and their adaptations

Boudedja,

Ameur,

Bouzid

et al. 2024

Cah. Agric.

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“…For example, Dominik et al [17] showed that farmers would participate in agricultural extension only if the services and information they demanded were specifically recommended and answered. Rebuffel et al [18] studied French farmers and found that local advisory services supply only a small proportion of the population while neglecting to reach out to other different types of farmers.…”

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The Effect of Agricultural Extension Service Need-Supply Fit on Biological Pesticides Adoption Behavior: Evidence from Chinese Rice Farmers

Yan,

Luo,

Tang

et al. 2023

Agriculture

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Agricultural extension services play an important role in promoting pesticide reduction and green production, although the mismatch between farmers’ needs and service supply in rural China seriously affects the application and promotion of biological pesticides, which has been generally ignored by existing studies. Taking 1160 rice farmers in Hubei Province, China, as an example, this study constructs a need-supply fit model of agricultural extension services from the perspectives of need and supply. We further use the logit model and propensity score matching method (PSM) to estimate the effect of service need-supply fit on farmers’ biological pesticide adoption behavior. The specific results are as follows: First, the level of need-supply fit for agricultural extension services was low for the overall sample. This indicates that the agricultural extension service supply is not consistent with the actual needs of farmers. Second, the agricultural extension service need-supply fit significantly and positively affects farmers’ biological pesticide adoption behavior. Third, there are significant differences in farmers’ biological pesticide adoption behaviors under different need-supply fit. When the level of service need-supply fit exceeds the 0.2 threshold, the positive effect of service need-supply fit on farmers’ biological pesticide adoption behavior gradually increases. Fourth, the agricultural extension service need-supply fit indirectly increases farmers’ motivation to adopt biological pesticides by regularizing biological pesticide use behavior and alleviating path dependency. Therefore, the main body of agricultural extension services should optimize the adjustment of the supply mode of agricultural extension services to fully grasp the reality of farmers’ need for biological pesticides in order to promote the application of biological pesticides.

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Entre abstraction et réalité dans la mise en œuvre du conseil agricole en Afrique subsaharienne: leçons apprises des expériences du département de l’Atlantique au Bénin

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Agricultural advisory, a learning and decision-making approach, is an important part of the agricultural policies in Sub-saharan Africa. This study aims to analyse the agricultural advisory service provided by comparing the organizational framework and implementation strategies with the realities observed in practice. Using simple random sampling method, 6 groups of 30 farmers from 6 different villages and 30 agricultural advisers were selected in the south of Benin, “Atlantique” department. Data were collected through focus group discussion and semi-structured interviews. Data were analysed using an analytical framework integrating the institutional and social environment as well as the various modalities used for the provision of agricultural advice. Results highlighted four main categories of factors limiting farmers’ access to agricultural advisory service: (i) agricultural advisory service-oriented towards large farms; (ii) individualized and overly specialized advice; (iii) limited number and unskilled agricultural advisers; and (iv) a “gendarme” monitoring and evaluation system little oriented towards the quality of the advice. This critical analysis of the implementation of the agricultural advice service offers some guidelines for strengthening agricultural innovation systems.

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Difficult access to advisory services for small farms : the situation in Mayotte

Cited by 4 publications

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The spread of the intensive agricultural model by agro-suppliers in Algeria: implications for citrus small family farms and their adaptations

The spread of the intensive agricultural model by agro-suppliers in Algeria: implications for citrus small family farms and their adaptations

The Effect of Agricultural Extension Service Need-Supply Fit on Biological Pesticides Adoption Behavior: Evidence from Chinese Rice Farmers

Entre abstraction et réalité dans la mise en œuvre du conseil agricole en Afrique subsaharienne: leçons apprises des expériences du département de l’Atlantique au Bénin

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