Location, vocation, and price shocks: cotton, rice, and sorghum-millet farmers in Mali

Smale, Mélinda; Diakité, Lamissa; Keita, Naman

doi:10.1080/09614524.2011.562489

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“…The findings of more recent studies generally support these earlier conclusions (for example D' Souza and Joliffe, 2010;de Brauw, 2011;Hella et al, 2011;Hossain and Green, 2011;Kumar and Quisumbing, 2011;Lu and Yu, 2011;Perez et al, 2011;Santoalla, 2011;Smale et al, 2011;Sophal, 2011;Ticci, 2011;Helen Keller International, 2011;Heltberg et al, 2012). An important additional point is that the impacts of food price rises are critically affected by their timing relative to seasonality (as it affects prices, wages, livelihood opportunities, food stocks, etc) and relative to other changes in the economy (for example changes in other commodity prices, in livelihood opportunities other sectors) and by spatial variables (for example Hella et al, 2011;Perez et al, 2011).…”

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The short- and medium- term impacts of rises in staple food prices

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2012

Food Sec.

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Section: Empirical Evidence and Debates On The Welfare Impacts Of Recsupporting

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The short- and medium- term impacts of rises in staple food prices

Dorward

2012

Food Sec.

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“…Cereal production has increased at the same rate as population over the last decade, with imports contributing to only 5% of the national cereal budget, and dependence on food aid has decreased from 4 kg of cereal per person in 1990 to 0.5 kg/person in 1999 [ Réseau de Prévention des Crises Alimentaires ( RPCA—Food Crisis Prevention Network , ]. These aspects all contributed to the resilience shown by Malian households to the 2008 global food price crisis [ Moseley , ; Smale et al ., ].…”

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Climate risk and food security in Mali: A historical perspective on adaptation

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We combine socioeconomic data from a large-scale household survey with historical climate data to map the climate sensitivity of availability and access dimensions of food security in Mali, and infer the ways in which at-risk communities may have been impacted by persistent climatic shift. Thirty years after 1982-1984, the period of most intense drought during the protracted late 20th century drying of the Sahel, the impact of drought on livelihoods and food security is still recognizable in the Sahelian center of Mali. This impact is expressed in the larger fraction of households in this Sahelian center of the country-the agro-ecological transition between pastoralism in the north, and sedentary agriculture in the south-who practice agriculture but not livestock raising, despite environmental conditions that are suitable to their combination. These households have lower food security and rely more frequently on detrimental nutrition-based coping strategies, such as reducing the quantity or quality of meals. In contrast, the more food secure households show a clear tendency toward livelihood diversification away from subsistence agriculture. These households produce less of what they consume, yet spend less on food in proportion. The analysis points to the value of interdisciplinary research-in this case bridging climate science and vulnerability analysis-to gain a dynamical understanding of complex systems, understanding which may be exploited to address real-world challenges, offering lessons about food security and local adaptation strategies in places among the most vulnerable to climate.

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“…Among farmers in the Douentza site, where there is a high degree of local adaptation in millet varieties, names generally refer to a specific village or location, in the local dialect, combined in some cases with references to traits (see names and descriptions in Smale et al . (2008)).…”

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“…Market infrastructure characteristics included the number of permanent shops, permanent stalls, semi-permanent stalls, floor vendors, mobile vendors, motorized market transport and horse- or donkey-drawn transport. As mentioned in the Methods section, these characteristics were enumerated during the vendor surveys (Smale et al , 2008). Expected millet prices calculated from triangular distributions elicited from vendors for April 2007, as well as actual millet prices in the markets in May 2007, were other variables hypothesized to influence the probability that farmers had procured seed with cash.…”

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“…This analysis demonstrated that none of the vendor characteristics was significantly associated with the probability that a farmer would procure seed with cash. In the Douentza market zone in particular, this finding reflects the fact that vendors are themselves farm women who sell their grain to meet particular needs – such as to earn cash to purchase ingredients for the sauces that accompany the staple dish (Smale et al , 2008). In other words, vendor characteristics are not significantly different from farmer characteristics.…”

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Millet transactions in market fairs, millet diversity and farmer welfare in Mali

Smale¹,

Diakité²,

Keita³

2012

Envir. Dev. Econ.

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Although farmers in the Malian Sahel depend on millet for survival, demand and supply constraints have impeded their use of certified seed. We use data collected from households, vendors and seed samples to test the way market purchases of grain and seed affect household food consumption and millet genetic diversity. Purchase of millet grain in markets contributes to food security, but reduces dietary diversity – suggesting that scarce cash was directed toward meeting staple food needs first. Farmers purchased millet grain for seed only in the site with riskier rainfall and smaller market fairs. Although they were more likely to purchase in markets where the genetic dissimilarity of seed was higher, purchasing seed in markets was negatively associated with on-farm diversity. Seed shortage rather than variety experimentation appears to be the motivation for seed purchase. Introducing certified seed in rural markets through small-scale traders will require the provision of market services and promotional efforts.

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Location, vocation, and price shocks: cotton, rice, and sorghum-millet farmers in Mali

Cited by 8 publications

References 9 publications

The short- and medium- term impacts of rises in staple food prices

The short- and medium- term impacts of rises in staple food prices

Climate risk and food security in Mali: A historical perspective on adaptation

Millet transactions in market fairs, millet diversity and farmer welfare in Mali

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