Large scale land investments and food security in agropastoral areas of Ethiopia

Bekele, Adugna Eneyew; Dries, Liesbeth; Heijman, Wim; Drábik, Dušan

doi:10.1007/s12571-020-01131-x

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“…Modelling further suggests that policies promoting bioethanol in China would result in a 5% increase of the world maize. Teklewold ( 2021 ) and Bekele et al ( 2021 ) zoom on Ethiopia. The former article addresses the agricultural growth program and its effects on total factor productivity, while the latter investigates how proximity to large-scale land investments is linked to households’ food intake and coping strategies.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Teklewold ( 2021 ), unsurprisingly, concludes that there are opportunities to improve productivity growth and food security in smallholder farms through more active research and extension activities. On the other hand, Bekele et al ( 2021 ) conclude that proximity to large scale land investments is associated with increased food intake, but has no significant effect on coping strategies to address food security.…”

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Revisiting food security in 2021: an overview of the past year

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Articles published in Food Security in 2021 are reviewed, showing a wide range of topics covered. Many articles are directly linked with "food" and associated terms such as "nutritive", "nutrition", "dietary", and "health". Another important group is linked with (food) "production" and a range of connected terms including: "irrigation", "cultivated", "organic", "varieties", "crop", "vegetable", and "land". A third group of terms refers to the scales at which food security is considered: "household", "farmer", "farm", "smallholder", "community", "nation" and "region". A few themes of Food Security are considered: (1) food supply and demand, food prices, and global trade; (2) food security in households; (3) food production; (4) value chains and food systems; (5) the evolution of the concept of food security; and (6) global nutrition. In a last section, perspectives for Food Security are discussed along four lines of thoughts: the level of inter-disciplinary research published in Food Security; the importance of the Social Sciences for food security as a collective good underpinned by other collective goods within food systems; the balance between the Global South and the Global North in Food Security; and a warning that urgent global challenges that vitally interact with food security may be left unattended as a result of the current public health emergency.

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“…Aiming to examine the impact of LSAI on the livelihood (the means of gaining a living) of local people in Oromia regional state, Ethiopia, this study employed the Sustainable Livelihood Framework (SLF), binary logistic model, and PSM [23,24]. Several authors have defined the term sustainable livelihood in different ways in connection with natural resource management, agricultural development, poverty alleviation, and food security.…”

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“…Moreover, a simple comparison of these two groups may result in serious biases and confusing conclusions. PSM is a pertinent approach to avoid such problems of bias and misleads, as proposed by several authors [24,47,48], and is one of the existing econometric methods to deal with these biases [46]. The model was also fitted to provide a cause and effect explanation in a quasi-experimental design and properly construct statistical treatment and comparison groups [49] and it measures the magnitude of the impact in terms of the Average Treatment Effect on the Treated households (ATT).…”

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Livelihood Impacts of Large-Scale Agricultural Investments Using Empirical Evidence from Shashamane Rural District of Oromia Region, Ethiopia

Alemu¹,

Tolossa²

2022

Sustainability

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The impact of Large Scale Agricultural Investments (LSAI) on local people’s livelihood improvement has received less attention than it deserves in Ethiopia in general, and the Oromia regional states in particular. The main objective of this study was to analyze the impact of LSAI, which began operations in 2008, on 10,000 hectares of fertile land in the Shashamane rural district of Oromia region, Ethiopia to enhance the quality of life of the local people. A quasi-experimental study design strategy was used to achieve this goal. We obtained primary data from 300 households, comprising 134 treatment homes (households in a community with LSAI) from the Shashamane rural district and 166 control households (households in a community without LSAI) from the Shala district using systematic random sampling. Analysis was undertaken using principal component analysis (PCA) and propensity score matching (PSM). The Sustainable Livelihoods Framework (SLF) was used to examine the theoretical concept with empirical findings. According to the Average Treatment Effect on Treated (ATT) results, the treated households’ natural, human, and financial capital were −0.91, −0.81, and −0.15 less than control families, respectively. Loss of household livelihoods has deepened and exacerbated local poverty. Businesses have not mechanized and controlled these sizable portions of the parcel; instead, peasants have worked on them and exploited the idle parcel. The research suggests that the government’s pro-LSAI investment policy is desirable. However, weak institutional frameworks for protecting local people’s livelihoods as well as LSAI malpractice and the lack of continuous follow-up are causing the LSAI policy to fail. To mitigate the negative impact of LSAI on peasants, it is necessary to consider the local people’s livelihoods, responsive institutions, and accountable ventures.

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“…The pace of LASLA has slowed down since 2009 for various reasons. Investors have abandoned many LASLA projects due to unprofitability, inexperience, unfavourable agro-climate and unrealistic assumptions regarding the target crops (Bekele et al, 2021;Hufe & Heuermann, 2017). Moreover, resistance from local people has created problems for investors, including social unrest (Hall et al, 2015;Tafon & Saunders, 2019).…”

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Why is sub‐Saharan Africa an attractive destination to foreign land grabbers? Evidence from country characteristics

Nkansah-Dwamena

Yoon

2022

African Development Review

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Investments in large-scale land acquisition by foreigners, also referred to as land grabbing, are crucial to sub-Saharan Africa's development. Land acquisition investments have attracted considerable attention in global development circles due to their potential positive (e.g., technology transfer, employment creation, infrastructure improvement, and global market integration) and negative (e.g., environmental degradation, food insecurity, displacement, and loss of livelihoods) impacts. The factors making land investments attractive to foreign investors are unclear. This paper examines country characteristics associated with land acquisitions in 20 sub-Saharan African countries to provoke evidence-based discussion. The paper estimates regression models of land acquisitions using country-level data from 2010 to 2019 on demographic and economic conditions, natural resources, business practices and governance. The results reveal that the availability of land and water, corruption, days required to start a business, government effectiveness, cost of business startup and political stability are critical determinants of land acquisition investments in sub-Saharan Africa. The paper recommends that African governments should: (1) strengthen regulatory frameworks on foreign direct investment in land; (2) scrutinize investors' business models, technical experience and knowledge of local culture; (3) undertake rigorous environmental and social impact assessments (ESIA) to weigh the long-term costbenefits of LASLA projects; and (4) conduct transparent contract negotiations, taking political and economic power imbalances between parties into consideration.

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Large scale land investments and food security in agropastoral areas of Ethiopia

Cited by 14 publications

References 34 publications

Revisiting food security in 2021: an overview of the past year

Revisiting food security in 2021: an overview of the past year

Livelihood Impacts of Large-Scale Agricultural Investments Using Empirical Evidence from Shashamane Rural District of Oromia Region, Ethiopia

Why is sub‐Saharan Africa an attractive destination to foreign land grabbers? Evidence from country characteristics

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