Is rural food security primarily associated with smallholder agriculture or with commercial agriculture?: An approach to the case of Mexico using structural equation modeling

Galeana-Pizaña, J. Mauricio; Couturier, Stéphane; Figueroa, Daniela; Jiménez-Ortega, Aldo Daniel

doi:10.1016/j.agsy.2021.103091

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“…Thus, while contributing to the malnutrition fight by improving food availability in the market, local farmers compromise longer-term food security prospects. According to Galeana-Pizana et al [ 115 ] and Van Wesenbeeck et al [ 116 ], this particularly relates to smallholder agriculture through smaller farm size, lack of education among farmers, lower levels of trust in science, and time and labor constraints. Poorer yields of such staples as maize, sorghum, and groundnuts in the Great Lakes and the Horn of Africa areas [ 3 ] have particularly affected a stagnation of per capita calorie supply and rise in undernourishment in SSA countries in recent years.…”

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“…For ensuring long-term food and nutritional security across the developing world, future studies must differentiate nutrient supply drivers between income patterns. The probing into the optimal use of fertilizers [ 116 ], liming [ 181 ], cultivation systems [ 115 ], food waste control [ 182 , 183 ], and environmentally responsible food consumption [ 121 ] should be conducted individually for lower- and upper-income countries in order to customize food policy measures.…”

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The Supply of Calories, Proteins, and Fats in Low-Income Countries: A Four-Decade Retrospective Study

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Over the past decades, both the quantity and quality of food supply for millions of people have improved substantially in the course of economic growth across the developing world. However, the number of undernourished people has resumed growth in the 2010s amid food supply disruptions, economic slowdowns, and protectionist restrictions to agricultural trade. Having been common to most nations, these challenges to the food security status of the population still vary depending on the level of economic development and national income of individual countries. In order to explore the long-run determinants of food supply transformations, this study employs five-stage multiple regression analysis to identify the strengths and directions of effects of agricultural production parameters, income level, price indices, food trade, and currency exchange on supply of calories, proteins, and fats across 11 groups of agricultural products in 1980–2018. To address the diversity of effects across developing nations, the study includes 99 countries of Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa categorized as low-income, lower-middle-income, and upper-middle-income economies. It is found that in low-income countries, food supply parameters are more strongly affected by production factors compared to economic and trade variables. The effect of economic factors on the food supply of higher-value food products, such as meat and dairy products, fruit, and vegetables, increases with the rise in the level of income, but it stays marginal for staples in all three groups of countries. The influence of trade factors on food supply is stronger compared to production and economic parameters in import-dependent economies irrelevant of the gross national income per capita. The approach presented in this paper contributes to the research on how food supply patterns and their determinants evolve in the course of economic transformations in low-income countries.

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The Supply of Calories, Proteins, and Fats in Low-Income Countries: A Four-Decade Retrospective Study

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“…While not explicitly included as water policy objectives, these typology components indicate strong potential for addressing food insecurity (SDG 2). Indeed, a recent analysis using NAC data found highland smallholder farms have strong potential for strengthening rural food security in Mexico [72]. In another example, a secondary farm characteristic such as chemical fertilizer use could serve as a target indicator for addressing land and water conservation (SDGs 14 and 15).…”

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Targeting Irrigation Expansion to Address Sustainable Development Objectives: A Regional Farm Typology Approach

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Sustainable water management is a core sustainable development goal (SDG) that also contributes to other SDGs, including food and water security, ecosystem health, and climate adaptation. To achieve these synergies, policies must target efforts to regions that best correspond with development objectives. This study designs a targeting strategy for irrigation expansion in southern Mexico—a region long considered to have strong potential for sustainable irrigation development. We use an integrated farm typology and decision tree approach to identify priority municipalities for irrigation expansion. We use multivariate statistics to examine the relationships among farm characteristics in 933 municipalities, classifying each according to four farm types: lowland, midland, midland-irrigated, and highland. We then partition municipalities into 11 farm-type subgroups, each ranked by priority level for receiving irrigation interventions following Mexico’s National Water Program guidelines. Results identify a ‘highest-priority’ subgroup of 73 municipalities comprised mostly of midland and highland farm types. These types are characterized by low irrigation use, small farmland areas, high vulnerability to climate, high marginalization (poverty), strong representation from indigenous communities, low maize yield, and high rates of subsistence production. Findings provide a crucial first approximation of where irrigation expansion would best address water policy priorities and sustainable development objectives in southern Mexico. This study also provides a useful framework for scaling organizations tasked with targeting development efforts across large spatial scales.

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“…In Mexico, most of the governmental strategies to support the agricultural sector are subsidies that are mainly target cereals producers. These subsidies aim to raise yields by increasing fertilizers' use (Galeana-Pizaña et al, 2021), which does not necessarily improve capacities to decrease the risk of environmental threats. In the risk index, we include increases in agricultural subsidies to assess how effectively this strategy shapes future climate change risk for maize producers.…”

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Evaluating Risk and Possible Adaptations to Climate Change Under a Socio-Ecological System Approach

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Evidence suggests that climate change could drastically reduce Mexico's agricultural productivity with severe socio-ecological consequences. Population growth and the increasing demand of resources will exacerbate these impacts. Focusing on rainfed maize production, we evaluate the socio-ecological risk that municipalities currently face and how climate change could modify it. Municipalities were classified based on their biophysical and socioeconomic traits like temperature, precipitation, population, gross domestic product, marginalization, and agricultural subsidies. The study identifies municipalities that would face higher risk under climate change conditions, and it evaluates whether increases in agricultural subsidies could be effective for reducing the farmers' future risk. Our results show that during the 2010's, 36.8% of the municipalities and 15% of the population were at very high and high risk, respectively. By 2070, under a high-warming scenario these figures increase to 56.5 and 18.5%. We find that a generalized augment in agricultural subsidies is not enough to compensate for the effects of climate change on the socio-ecological risk of rainfed maize producers. We suggest that transformative adaptation is required for managing the agricultural risk that socio-ecological systems experience under climate change conditions. Such adaptation strategies should include poverty alleviation, promotion of resistant and native varieties of crops, capacity building to improve management and water use, sustainable technification, and soil restoration.

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Is rural food security primarily associated with smallholder agriculture or with commercial agriculture?: An approach to the case of Mexico using structural equation modeling

Cited by 32 publications

References 83 publications

The Supply of Calories, Proteins, and Fats in Low-Income Countries: A Four-Decade Retrospective Study

The Supply of Calories, Proteins, and Fats in Low-Income Countries: A Four-Decade Retrospective Study

Targeting Irrigation Expansion to Address Sustainable Development Objectives: A Regional Farm Typology Approach

Evaluating Risk and Possible Adaptations to Climate Change Under a Socio-Ecological System Approach

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