Use of wealth ranking to analyse factors influencing smallholder farmers' market participation in northern Mozambique

Green, Maryann; Lukanu, Gastão; Worth, S.H.; Greenfield, Peter

doi:10.1080/03768350601021939

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“…Knowing the size of the area assigned to cultivate food crops for consumption is necessary because it gives an idea who can cultivate cash crops. According to Green et al (2006), households in southern Niassa give priority to food crop cultivation before planning to cultivate cash crops.…”

Section: Area For Food Crop For Consumption and Respective Ahl And Clrmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The study used the approach by Green et al (2006) based on effective household labour to estimate the number of persons. EHL was calculated by summing active household members (AHM), determined from the respondents' own assessment, with hired external labourers (EL) minus active household members who provide labour to other households (HMEL) (Green et al, 2006).…”

Section: Available Household Labourmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…EHL was calculated by summing active household members (AHM), determined from the respondents' own assessment, with hired external labourers (EL) minus active household members who provide labour to other households (HMEL) (Green et al, 2006).…”

Section: Available Household Labourmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Two earlier studies identified labour as one of the most important factors influencing smallholders' decision to cultivate cash crops. Lukanu et al (2004) identified, in order of importance: (i) profitability, (ii) market access, (iii) availability of inputs and implements, (iv) labour, and (v) access to extension services; and Green et al (2006) reported that the number of effective labourers was the most determining factor that explained variation in market participation. Makhura (2001) also found that labour factors influenced smallholders' participation in agricultural markets.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Insufficient labour can limit the ability to sow a large area quickly (Abalu et al, 1987), and inadequate production, because the area of cultivated land is reduced, limits market participation. Green et al (2006) reported that the majority of farmers in the southern Niassa province of Mozambique gave priority to cultivating food crops for consumption: their available household labour was first assigned to these and what was left over was used to cultivate cash crops. Enete et al (2002) analysed the contribution of labour by men and women to food crop production in Africa and found that the number of households where females provided more field labour than males was higher for female-headed than male-headed ones.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The influence of smallholder labour demand on cultivation of cash crops in northern Mozambique

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Labour is one of the most important factors affecting smallholder cultivation of cash crops. Available household labour (AHL), crop labour requirements (CLR) and the ratio AHL:CLR were analysed from data collected from 287 households in the southern Niassa province of Mozambique. The study confirms that, other factors being held constant, crop labour requirements were positively related to the number of households rejecting or discontinuing certain cash crops owing to lack of available labour. Weeding was the most labour-intensive operation, followed by harvesting, preparing soil, transporting produce, clearing land and preparing seedlings. The following labour-dependent factors can be estimated: (i) the total area a household can cultivate, (ii) the area that can be allocated to food crops for consumption, (iii) the area that can be allocated to cash crops, (iv) the proportion of households that can cultivate cash crops, and (v) the proportion of households that are unlikely to produce sufficient food for household consumption.

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Section: Area For Food Crop For Consumption and Respective Ahl And Clrmentioning

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Section: Available Household Labourmentioning

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Parklands are mixtures of trees and shrubs that farmers select for certain functions. In the Sahel, parklands are cultivated together with staple food crops, such as millet and sorghum. Parkland trees are sources of foods, including fruits, fats, oils, leafy vegetables, nuts and condiments that complement food crops in the local diet. Despite their socio-economic and ecological role, many studies have shown that the parklands are degrading very rapidly. Therefore, there is a need to undertake restoration actions that are based on a clear understanding of the livelihood context, such as the wealth status of the farmers, in which these agroecosystems are evolving. Thus, we conducted a wealth survey with rural communities in two different farming systems of Burkina Faso that are the cereal-based system in the ''Plateau Central'' and the cotton-based system in the ''Boucle du Mouhoun''. A total of twelve villages were sampled, six villages for each system. The Participatory Analysis of Poverty and Livelihood Dynamics (PAPoLD) method was used by rural farmers to rank farmer households of their communities according to their wealth status. The results revealed that 70% of households in the Plateau Central and 56% in the ''Boucle du Mouhoun'' managed to escape poverty, and became wealthy. However, 2% of households of the villages in the Plateau Central and 6% in ''Boucle du Mouhoun'' fell into poverty in the same period whereas 9 and 12% remained poor in these zones, respectively. The main causes associated with households getting out of poverty are subsidies for cotton, external revenues from relatives working in towns and gardening activities. Death of spouse, illness, high number of people in the household and indebtedness are the main causes that lead into poverty. The implications of these findings in designing appropriate policies and management options for a sustainable management of agroforestry parklands under different land use systems were finally discussed.

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Aspects of profitability that influence smallholder cash-crop preferences in northern Mozambique

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This study analyses profitability in terms of relationships between various aspects, indicators and cash-crop cultivation preferences. Both financial and pragmatic aspects of profitability were found to be related to cash-crop preferences. Apart from the need to promote a crop with a good farm gate price and to reduce production and marketing costs, promoters need to strengthen the wider system by supporting profitability as well as household consumption requirements. The correlation between indicators of expected profitability improved as more financial and pragmatic aspects were incorporated. Smallholder farmers' rankings of profitability correlated better with cash-crop preferences when the analysis incorporated more aspects of profitability. In addition, the results indicated the institutional support needed to improve the profitability of cash crops. This simple method of identifying smallholder preferences for one cash crop among many is of paramount importance in the design of strategies for improving agricultural market participation.Profitability, cash-crop preferences, smallholder cash-crop cultivation, northern Mozambique,

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Use of wealth ranking to analyse factors influencing smallholder farmers' market participation in northern Mozambique

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References 8 publications

The influence of smallholder labour demand on cultivation of cash crops in northern Mozambique

The influence of smallholder labour demand on cultivation of cash crops in northern Mozambique

Defining the poor by the rural communities of Burkina Faso: implications for the development of sustainable parkland management

Aspects of profitability that influence smallholder cash-crop preferences in northern Mozambique

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