Rural Policies, Price Change and Poverty in Tanzania: An Agricultural Household Model-Based Assessment

Tiberti, Luca; Tiberti, Marco

doi:10.1093/jae/eju035

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“…A large majority of rural households are primarily engaged in agricultural activities, either working their own land or as hired laborers on someone else's land. 7 Also, as found in Tanzania (Tiberti and Tiberti 2015) and several other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, because of high transaction costs and heterogeneity across workers and households, the labor market is imperfect or absent (e.g., see the examples reported in de Janvry and Sadoulet 2006). In such a context, engagement in the selling or purchasing of a good in an imperfect market might be unprofitable for households and for this reason, production and consumption decisions are interconnected.…”

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School or Work?: The Role of Weather Shocks in Madagascar

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Section: Figure 1 Definition Of School Work and Rainfall Variablesmentioning

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School or Work?: The Role of Weather Shocks in Madagascar

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“…For the agricultural production, the inputs of labor and arable land have significantly positive impacts on the outputs. The educational level of the household head has a significant effect on farm production, supporting the widely accepted role of human capital in improving agricultural production (Henning and Henningsen, 2007;Tiberti and Tiberti, 2015). In addition, households located in mountainous areas produce more agricultural products than those from hilly areas.…”

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“…Here, we assume that the households in our study region are clearly price taker and profit maximizing and competitive producers. A two-stage estimation strategy developed on the basis of previous literature (Henning and Henningsen, 2007;Tiberti and Tiberti, 2015) is adopted. We firstly estimate the shadow wage of household labor through modeling the intra-household production system and then include the estimated shadow wage in a multioutput profit function to investigate the relationship between agricultural production and biomass collection.…”

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Evaluating the Impacts of Traditional Biomass Energy Use on Agricultural Production in Sichuan, China

Qiu

Mirzabaev

2016

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractAs crop straw and firewood are generated as by-products of food production systems, they are perceived to be sustainable energy sources that do not threaten food security by Chinese government for a long time. However, the time spent on collecting straw and firewood may create a burden on rural household, as it could reduce the available labor inputs for agricultural production, which in turn, possibly brings negative impact on food security. Building on an integrated agriculture-energy production system, a Symmetric Normalized Quadratic (SNQ) multi-output profit function (which includes labor allocations as quasi-fixed factors) is estimated to investigate the impacts of traditional biomass energy use on agricultural production in this paper. The negative signs of the calculated cross-price elasticities of supply (agricultural products and biomass energy) confirm that the relationship between biomass collection and agricultural production is competition. Moreover, the crossprice elasticities of biomass collection with respect to inputs are positive, implying that indirect link between biomass collection and agricultural production perhaps lies in household consumption decisions. The important implication of this study is that potential policy interventions for developing biomass energy in rural China could aim at enhancing food security by improving household motivation of engaging in agricultural production and slowing down the competition between biomass collection and agricultural production. It is suggested that government should attach more importance to simultaneously promote the prices of agricultural products and control the prices of intermediate inputs.

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“…Seven studies have assessed other technologies or farm management. These technologies include mechanization by animal traction in Tanzania (Tiberti and Tiberti, 2015) and Burkina-Faso (Sanfo and Gérard, 2012), and by tractor in Nigeria; the provision of seasonal climate forecasts to farmers by Bharwani et al (2005) in South Africa and Ziervogel et al, (2005) in Lesotho; and the assessment of transport infrastructure and non-selective grazing system in Kenya and South Africa, respectively (Omamo, 1998, Beukes et al, 2002).…”

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“…Most of the studies predicted that mechanization technologies with tractor and animal traction increase farmer income and productivity. Tiberti and Tiberti (2015) showed that a hypothetical 10% increase in the use of oxen-ploughs in Tanzania would reduce the incidence of poverty by 7% and the poverty gap by 8%. A similar result has been predicted by a case study in Burkina-Faso.…”

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Modern Trends in Agricultural Development in Cameroon and Ways to Ensure Its Sustainability

Anaciet

2019

Ekonomìka ta upravlìnnâ APK

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It has been established that agriculture is the backbone of Cameroon's economy, where 80% of the labor force is engaged in the agricultural sector and provides 22.3% of gross domestic product and 30% of its export revenues. The investigated branch forms the commodity supply of agricultural products both on the domestic and foreign markets, the following types of products: cocoa, coffee, cotton, bananas, palm oil, tobacco, tea, pineapple, corn, millet, sorghum, yams, potatoes, beans and rice. It has been determined that the livestock sector has been developed throughout the country and plays an especially important role in the northern region of the country. It has been proved that the main goal of the country's agricultural development is to ensure food security, whose achievement is strongly influenced by globalization of climate change. For the country under study, the country's orientation towards a "product concept" is characteristic, in which the main objective is to ensure the physical and economic availability of agricultural food. The strategic priorities in the country's agricultural development, which include the mobilization of local resources for intensive production taking into account environmental requirements, are highlighted. It is substantiated that today specialized regions have been formed in relation to the production of certain types of products, which allowed to increase the productivity of agricultural crops. It is noted that there are differences in indicators of productivity of agricultural production in farms and research stations, which proves the existence of unused reserves for improving production efficiency. The characteristic features of development of agricultural production of the country are systematized: low level of technical support; a manifestation of the tendency to increase the land of farms; the prevalence of small commodity producers; low income farmers; predominance of informal economic relations; use of manual labor; complicated access to loan financing sources; low level of involvement of commodity producers in value added chains. It is proved that under conditions of intensification of investment activity in the country's agriculture and realization of the foreseen measures of the strategic national plan, conditions and preconditions for effective development, modernization of production infrastructure, access of farmers to sources of financing and other components of sustainable development will be formed. It is highlighted that one of the conditions for the sustainable development of agriculture in the country is the intensification of agricultural production, which will promote ecological and social sustainability. Important instruments for its achievement are technological innovations in the direction of introducing new or improved agro technology of cultivation and modern management practices, new breeds of farm animals and poultry, integrated practices for improving soil fertility and widespread replacement of manual labor. Innovative solutions need to be coordinated with the specifics of the production process, and in terms of environmental and water and energy intensity. Key words: agriculture, food safety, farmer, innovation, investment attractiveness.

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Rural Policies, Price Change and Poverty in Tanzania: An Agricultural Household Model-Based Assessment

Cited by 15 publications

References 18 publications

School or Work?: The Role of Weather Shocks in Madagascar

School or Work?: The Role of Weather Shocks in Madagascar

Evaluating the Impacts of Traditional Biomass Energy Use on Agricultural Production in Sichuan, China

Modern Trends in Agricultural Development in Cameroon and Ways to Ensure Its Sustainability

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