New Land is not enough: Agricultural performance of New Lands settlement in West Africa

McMillan, Della E.; Sanders, John H.; Koenig, Dolores; Akwabi-Ameyaw, Kofi; Painter, Thomas M.

doi:10.1016/s0305-750x(97)10055-9

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“…Nevertheless, Burkina Faso farmers have continued to use conventional insecticides intensively, especially as cotton production has expanded into more marginal agricultural lands along the frontier where pest populations are often greatest [49]. In addition to becoming increasingly ineffective and costly, conventional pest control has also become more hazardous as the use of more broadly toxic endosulfans has increased since 2000 throughout many parts of West Africa, including Burkina Faso, due to pyrethroid resistance [10].…”

Section: Pest Damage and Bt Cottonmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enhancing Sustainability of Cotton Production Systems in West Africa: A Summary of Empirical Evidence from Burkina Faso

2011

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Africa has been hesitant to adopt agricultural biotechnology, lagging behind global trends over the past decade. One exception is Burkina Faso, a West African country that commercially released 125,000 ha of Bt cotton in 2009. Bt cotton may serve as a working example of how African countries can enhance sustainability using modern, science-driven technology to increase production levels while reducing input use and energy consumption. This paper reports the potential impact that Bt cotton can have on sustainability in Burkina Faso's cotton sector based by summarizing empirical evidence from previously published studies. Based on the summary of published data collected from six years of field trials and producer surveys, Bt cotton increased cotton yields by an average of 21.3% and raised income by $106.14 per ha. Using an energy balance model, the introduction of Bt cotton would also result in a 6.6% saving in energy use. The significant increase in productivity and economic returns could be the catalyst for Burkina Faso, and other African countries, to emerge from the decade or so of stagnation and regain their competitive stance in world cotton markets while providing environmental and social benefits.

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Section: Pest Damage and Bt Cottonmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enhancing Sustainability of Cotton Production Systems in West Africa: A Summary of Empirical Evidence from Burkina Faso

2011

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“…The other two survey sites, Bougouni and Kadiolo, are located south of Koutiala in the wetter Sudano–Guinean zone (800–1,000 mm per year) where agricultural development proceeded more slowly, due to the higher incidences of disease and pest pressure found in the subhumid tropics. Cotton was not introduced into Kadiolo and Bougouni until the early 1980s when the frontier was pushed back through the introduction of new agricultural technology and improved health practices that reduced disease pressure on both humans and animals (McMillan et al, 1998). Throughout the survey region rainfall is unimodal, with precipitation spread over a six‐month interval from May through October, with the heaviest rains occurring in August (Doraiswamy et al, 2007).…”

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Estimating the supply response of cotton and cereal crops in smallholder production systems: recent evidence from Mali

Vitale

Djourra

Sidibé

2009

Agricultural Economics

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Cotton is one of the most important crops in West Africa and is a major catalyst of economic development in rural areas, but the sector has suffered from a decline in the world cotton price after 1999. This article exploits an unusual data set following 82 farmers over 14 years, from 1994 through 2007, to estimate a Nerlovian supply response model for cotton, maize, sorghum, and millet in long-term rotation. The resulting system of equations is estimated with two-stage least squares (2SLS), showing that this sample of Malian cotton producers have responded to prices in a relatively inelastic manner, with supply elasticities only about one-half of those estimated for producers in developed countries. Policy reforms could help producers respond more easily to prices changes, as well as to raise average productivity levels. Copyright (c) 2009 International Association of Agricultural Economists.

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“…Providing training on microenterprises for income generation, establishing linkage with market, providing training on required technical skills for jobs in government/ private sectors and arranging alternative land-based income sources are the effective steps towards reestablishment of the DPs (Pandey, 1998). Along with new land and technical assistance, social policy measures are required for land-based resettlement (McMillan, Sanders, Koenig, Akwabi and Painter, 1998). Societies, 23, 1 (2011): 85-120 Social Support A person inhabits in the society to share sorrow, divide happiness and interchange assistance.…”

Section: Tangible Supportmentioning

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Displacement and Resettlement in Tribal and Non-tribal Dominated Dam Projects of Orissa

Hota¹,

Suar

2011

Psychology and Developing Societies

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This study examines (i) whether productive use of compensation money, participation, support and self-efficacy facilitate the rehabilitation of the displaced and (ii) whether self-efficacy mediate between the rehabilitation of the displaced and the productive use of compensation, participation and support. One hundred and seventy two displaced families from two tribal-dominated and 232 displaced families from two non-tribal dominated medium irrigation projects in Orissa (India) were interviewed for the study. Using the conceptual algorithm of (a) equal or increased income and (b) equal or improved housing conditions of a displaced family compared to pre-displacement status, a family was considered to be rehabilitated. Of the total interviewees, 56.4 per cent families in tribal dominated and 36.2 per cent families in non-tribal dominated

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New Land is not enough: Agricultural performance of New Lands settlement in West Africa

Cited by 18 publications

References 13 publications

Enhancing Sustainability of Cotton Production Systems in West Africa: A Summary of Empirical Evidence from Burkina Faso

Enhancing Sustainability of Cotton Production Systems in West Africa: A Summary of Empirical Evidence from Burkina Faso

Estimating the supply response of cotton and cereal crops in smallholder production systems: recent evidence from Mali

Displacement and Resettlement in Tribal and Non-tribal Dominated Dam Projects of Orissa

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