Putting the 2007/2008 global food crisis in longer-term perspective: Trends in staple food affordability in urban Zambia and Kenya

Mason, Nicole M.; Jayne, Thomas S.; Chapoto, Antony; Donovan, Cynthia

doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2011.03.005

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“…Urban and male bias are the two major biases -towards towns rather than rural areas and towards men, not women -are principal factors in explaining Africa's food insecurity. Due to urban-bias and maize bias (Mason et al, 2011), subsidies for maize production and food distribution account for a major share of the national agricultural subsidy and underpin many investment programs and policy reforms in across Africa (Hanjra and Culas, 2011).…”

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Analysis of Technical Efficiency of Small Holder Maize Growing Farmers of Horo Guduru Wollega Zone, Ethiopia: A Stochastic Frontier Approach

Kitila¹,

Alemu²

2014

Sci. Technol. Arts Res. J.

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Article InformationThe objective of this study was to examine the level of technical efficiency of smallholder maize producers and identify its determinants in Horo Guduru Wollega zone of Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia. A Cobb-Douglass stochastic production function model was used for the analysis. To specify technical inefficiency effects of socioeconomic variables, Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) technique using data collected from 120 randomly selected sample farmers in 2011 was applied. The MLE results reveal that farm size under maize cultivation, chemical fertilizer (DAP) and maize seed are the major factors that are associated with changes in the maize output. The effect of land area on output is positive and the coefficient is found to be significant, implying the economies of scale. The test result indicates that there is inefficiency in the production of maize in the study area. The relative deviation from the frontier due to inefficiency is 85 percent. The average estimated technical efficiency for smallholder maize producers ranges from 0.06 to 0.92 with a mean technical efficiency of 0.66 (66%). The analysis also reveals that the educational level of the farmer, age of household head, land fragmentation, extension services, engagement in off-farm/non-farm activities, and total land holding of the farmer are the major socioeconomic factors influencing farmers' technical efficiency and maize output. The implication of the study is that technical efficiency in maize production in the study area could be increased by 34 percent through better use of available resources, given the current state of technology.

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Analysis of Technical Efficiency of Small Holder Maize Growing Farmers of Horo Guduru Wollega Zone, Ethiopia: A Stochastic Frontier Approach

Kitila¹,

Alemu²

2014

Sci. Technol. Arts Res. J.

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“…There is a fundamental difference in the methodology that we use and that used in many recent studies of changes in poverty and/or food security, such as Headey (2011), Verpoorten, Arora, and Swinnen, (2012) and Mason, Jayne, Chapoto, and Donovan (2011). We seek to estimate the partial, ceteris paribus, effect of food price changes on poverty in a particular period.…”

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Estimating the Short-Run Poverty Impacts of the 2010–11 Surge in Food Prices

2012

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“…Evidence indicates that many of the urban and rural poor rely on these less expensive ways of procuring their maize meal as long as grain is available in local markets for purchase Mason et al 2011). However, when the supply of grain in local markets dries up, consumers are forced to switch to more expensive packaged maize meal, or cut the number of meals they eat per day.…”

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Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability

Pinstrup‐Andersen¹

2014

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Putting the 2007/2008 global food crisis in longer-term perspective: Trends in staple food affordability in urban Zambia and Kenya

Cited by 80 publications

References 21 publications

Analysis of Technical Efficiency of Small Holder Maize Growing Farmers of Horo Guduru Wollega Zone, Ethiopia: A Stochastic Frontier Approach

Analysis of Technical Efficiency of Small Holder Maize Growing Farmers of Horo Guduru Wollega Zone, Ethiopia: A Stochastic Frontier Approach

Estimating the Short-Run Poverty Impacts of the 2010–11 Surge in Food Prices

Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability

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