Upscaling Agriculture and Food Security in Africa in Pursuit of the SDGs: What Role Does China Play?

Marafa, Lawal M.; May, Julian; Tenebe, V. A.

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“…They seek to maximize the best options and outcomes from their game with nature and the environment. They have vested interest in maximising income returns from diversification opportunities as well as enhancing food and nutritional outcomes (Marafa, May & Tenebe 2020). This view concurs with Maxwell (1991), who argued that food security would only be attained when resource poor become efficient and resilient at income diversification activities.…”

Section: Livelihood Strategies Of Households In Response To Nutritional Deficiencysupporting

confidence: 52%

The Proof of Economic Welfare Is in the Eating of Nutritious Diets by the Resource-Poor: A Political Economy Analysis of the International Evidence of Dietary Consumption in Rural Africa

Salifu¹

2021

IJBA

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This paper provides a summary of the international literature published in the thematic area of household dietary diversity with emphasis on the importance of sustainable approaches to global hunger and malnutrition. The paper highlights the correlation between inadequate household dietary diversity, child mortality and death. It also draws attention to the subtle combinations of social, economic and political interactions in enhancing nutritional welfare. The paper further raises a major argument that contemporary explorations of dietary diversity have failed to sustain the important tension and dialectical debate between diverse empirical realities and wider theorization of the concrete linkage of economic welfare to dietary diversity. The paper sets the tone for wider conceptualization of the phenomenon by clearly outlining the role of multiple relations of low incomes, inadequate maternal-child health care as well as poor environmental sanitation as leading predicators of under-nutrition in rural Africa. This theorization makes the case that, studying the relations and conjunctions of economic welfare via the agency of dietary consumption, is critical for emergent processes of change as the given-evidence of under-nutrition does not allow economists to draw solid conclusions on status of dietary diversity in rural Africa without a dynamic understanding and explicit recognition of the wider abstractions of political economy undercurrents in economic welfare and nutritional well-being literature. That said, the paper re-affirms the subtle evidence that under-nutrition and reduced body-mass of adults, often cited in the development literature as proxy-indicators of poor dietary diversity, needs to be re-evaluated as reduced body-mass in adults could be an indication of other incidences of environmental-stresses rather than of food-energy stress. In this vein, the review sustains a new argument that, resource-poor households modify attitude to food consumption in order to self-protect against income losses in household production systems. This position has implications for economic welfare and nutritional diversity research as food may not always come first for the resource-poor. It also opens new avenues for economic research by projecting the hypothesis that consumption of nutritious diets cannot be seen as a unique object to be sought by resource-poor to the exclusion of all other priorities including raising income frontiers through savings for wealth accumulation. The pre-eminence of food security over income diversification activities of rural households as a broader strategy to reduce malnutrition and poverty in the developing world could be re-examined to give livelihood activities a central role in household dietary diversity research.

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Section: Livelihood Strategies Of Households In Response To Nutritional Deficiencysupporting

confidence: 52%

The Proof of Economic Welfare Is in the Eating of Nutritious Diets by the Resource-Poor: A Political Economy Analysis of the International Evidence of Dietary Consumption in Rural Africa

Salifu¹

2021

IJBA

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“…The empirical realities around the world have identified the major factors driving remittance, household expenditure and investments in agribusiness entrepreneurship and self-employment. These studies have utilized different range of methodological approaches for assessing the economic impact of international remittances on poverty thresholds, labour supply regimes, economic growth and microenterprise development (Marafa, May, & Tenebe 2020;Guo, 2019;Alcaraz, Chiquiar, & Salcedo, 2012;Amuedo-Dorantes & Pozo, 2006a). Notwithstanding the significant contribution of these studies to enhancing our understanding of the global impact of remittances on economic welfare and agribusiness development, the conclusions drawn from the analysis of experimental data raises intricate questions about the methodological validity and soundness of the approaches used in modelling the empirical relevance of remittance to agribusiness entrepreneurship and household welfare.…”

Section: Methodological Problems Of Modelling Remittance Effects On Agribusiness Entreprenuershipmentioning

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Picking the Right Arrow for the Target: Modelling the Economic Impact of Remittance on Agribusinesss Entreprenuership and Youth Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa

Salifu¹

2021

BMR

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The consequences of conflictual views on modelling the economic impact of remittances on agribusiness entrepreneurship and economic growth, has been present for a long time in the economic literature, albeit in a somewhat scattered way. This has attracted wide-spread criticism for agribusiness inititaives and its failure to address rural unemployment within the context of youth participation in the global food markets. This paper provides a summary of the global evidence published in the thematic area of international migration-remittance and sustainable development with emphasis on the financialisation impact of remittance on agribusiness entreprenuership and economic growth. The paper selectively reviews over 100 documented cases that offer insights into the methodological approaches for empirical modelling of remittance studies around the world. The paper bridges different stands of literature in economic and business management sciences and exemplifies the new complementaries between remittance, agribusiness and supply chain developments. Much as the paper advances no particular theory for modelling the economic impact of remittances on agribusiness entreprenuership and growth, it clearly offers insights into picking the appropriate methodological approaches for empirical estimation of the net effects of remittances on agribusiness entrepreneurship and rural youth employment in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The paper pinpoints ample evidence and brings a case for use of randomized experimentation approaches in Sub-Saharan Africa prone to the vagaries of weather- shocks and climate change. The paper further elaborates the nexus between remittance and contemporary development themes of poverty reduction and inequality, investment and savings, labour supply participation and economic growth. The experimental evidence reported around the globe showed that remittances have positive effects on poverty reduction but negative ramifications for labour supply, education, and economic growth. The analysis made a startling discovery which demonstrated that although, remittances reduced labour supply participation in developing economies; it significantly increased consumption of luxury goods in migrant households and made no positive contribution whatsoever to economic growth. This sorepoint courts new attention on resolution of the dilemma of remittance on economic welfare and advances an immediate redress of the emerging crises of methodological misuse in Development economics. Specifically the paper finds penalties with choice of methodological approaches for modelling the economic impacts of remitance on agribusiness entrepreneurship and economic welfare and advocated the inculcation of political economy perspectives in order to intergrate the multidimensionality of the complicated linkages of remittance to agribusiness entrepreneurship, rural youth employment and sustainable economic growth.

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“…The majority of early studies on sustainable crop management concentrated on specific techniques and how they affected crop yields and environmental effects. Studies have looked into the advantages of using organic fertilizers, cover crops, and decreased tillage, for instance [6], [24]- [26]. Even though this research offered insightful information, they frequently lacked a thorough understanding of the area.…”

Section: Research On Sustainable Crop Management Is Changingmentioning

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Trends and Influential Works in Sustainable Crop Management: A Bibliometric Study

Kunu,

Elizabeth,

Sulandjari

2023

WSIS

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This bibliometric study examines how the field of sustainable crop management research is developing through an analysis of publications and their citations. We use VOSviewer software and sophisticated bibliometric approaches to find emergent research subjects, co-authorship networks, trends, and influential publications. Our data shows a significant increase in research publications over the course of four decades, which is indicative of the growing understanding of the significance of sustainable agriculture. Key publications by well-known writers offer fundamental information, and co-authorship networks emphasize cooperative research initiatives. Agroecology and climate-resilient agriculture are two emerging study subjects that provide insights into the field's future orientations. Through an awareness of these trends and key publications, this research helps to support well-informed decisions about food security and sustainable agriculture.

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Upscaling Agriculture and Food Security in Africa in Pursuit of the SDGs: What Role Does China Play?

Cited by 6 publications

References 17 publications

The Proof of Economic Welfare Is in the Eating of Nutritious Diets by the Resource-Poor: A Political Economy Analysis of the International Evidence of Dietary Consumption in Rural Africa

The Proof of Economic Welfare Is in the Eating of Nutritious Diets by the Resource-Poor: A Political Economy Analysis of the International Evidence of Dietary Consumption in Rural Africa

Picking the Right Arrow for the Target: Modelling the Economic Impact of Remittance on Agribusinesss Entreprenuership and Youth Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa

Trends and Influential Works in Sustainable Crop Management: A Bibliometric Study

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