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The Role of Smallholder Farms in Food and Nutrition Security.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gomez y Paloma, Sergio.
Other Authors: Riesgo, Laura., Louhichi, Kamel.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2020.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Editors and Contributors
  • Introduction
  • References
  • Why Smallholders Remain Key for Food and Nutrition Security?
  • The Role of Smallholder Farms in a Changing World
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Important but Shifting Role of Smallholders
  • 3 Typology of Development Pathways for Smallholders
  • 4 A Spectrum of Challenges Hinders the Profitability of Smallholder Farms
  • 4.1 Limited Farm Size
  • 4.2 Access to Financial Services
  • 4.3 Climate Change
  • 4.4 Price Spikes and Volatility
  • 4.5 Access to Modern Markets
  • 5 Smallholder Farms Need to Move Up or Move Out
  • 5.1 Promote Land Rights and Efficient Land Markets
  • 5.2 Enhance Risk Management, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies
  • 5.3 Support Efficient and Inclusive Food Value Chains
  • 5.4 Close Gender Gaps and Develop Young Farmers
  • 5.5 Scale up Productive Cross-Sector Social Safety Nets
  • 6 Conclusion
  • References
  • Importance of Smallholder Farms as a Relevant Strategy to Increase Food Security
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Trends in the Number and Size of Small Farms
  • 3 Trends in Small Farm Livelihood Strategies
  • 4 Why the Slow Exodus of Small Farms?
  • 5 Prognosis
  • 6 Some Implications for Food Security and Nutrition
  • 7 Conclusions
  • References
  • Rural Development Strategies and Africa's Small Farms
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Green Revolutions as a Path Out of Rural Poverty
  • 3 Scale, Technology Adoption and Global Food Supplies: Past Lessons and Future Prospects
  • 4 Smallholder Resources in SSA as a Solution to Future Food Needs
  • 5 Alternative Rural Development Strategies Based on Larger Farms
  • 6 Revolution or Evolution?
  • 7 Lessons from Farmers' Fields
  • 7.1 Maize
  • 7.2 Rice
  • 8 Concluding Discussion
  • References
  • How to Support and Provide Opportunities to Smallholders?.
  • Inorganic Fertiliser Use Among Smallholder Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for Input Subsidy Policies
  • 1 Smallholder Access to Inorganic Fertiliser
  • 1.1 Background: Common Perception of Low Inorganic Fertiliser Use in SSA
  • 1.2 Challenge of Low Maize to Fertiliser Response Rates
  • 1.3 Reasons for Low Maize to Fertiliser Response Rates
  • 2 Implications for Input Subsidy Policy
  • 2.1 Need to Clarify ISP Goals and Objectives
  • 2.2 Improving Beneficiary Targeting
  • 2.3 ISPs Versus Other Social Protection Programmes
  • 3 Recommendations for Improving ISPs
  • 3.1 Governments Should Clearly Communicate that the Main Goal of ISPs Is to Increase Maize Yields and Maize Production
  • 3.2 Self-targeting Option No 1: Further Increase the Required Farmer Contribution to ISP Fertiliser
  • 3.3 Self-targeting Option No 2: Pilot a Conditional Subsidy
  • 3.4 Pilot Flexible Input Voucher (FIV) Programme
  • 4 Conclusions
  • References
  • Global Change and Investments in Smallholder Irrigation for Food and Nutrition Security in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Global Change and Transformation of Smallholder Agriculture in Africa
  • 2.1 Global Change and Rural-Urban Linkages
  • 2.2 The Imperative of Smallholders and Food Security
  • 3 Methodology and Conceptual Framework
  • 4 Results
  • 4.1 Rural Irrigation Schemes Using Surface and Groundwater
  • 4.2 Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture Using Wastewater and Groundwater
  • 4.3 Big Data
  • 4.4 Telecoupling and Irrigation Development
  • 5 Discussion: Transforming Investments to Feed the Future
  • 5.1 Investing in Small-Scale Irrigation and Complementary Infrastructure
  • 5.2 Groundwater Development Policy
  • 5.3 Investing in Solar Energy for Groundwater Pumping for Irrigation
  • 5.4 Investment in Peri-urban and Urban Agriculture
  • 5.5 No-Regret Investments for Managing Social Change.
  • 6 Conclusions and Outlook
  • Appendix: Indicators of Regional Change and Transformation in SSA
  • References
  • Smallholder Farmers' Access to Inputs and Finance in Africa
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Challenges to Smallholder Farmers' Access to Production Inputs
  • 2.1 Limitations in Access to Secure Agricultural Land
  • 2.2 Policies and Institutional Factors Hindering Farmers' Access to Improved Seed
  • 2.3 Constraints to Smallholder Farmers' Access to Fertiliser in Africa
  • 2.4 Access to Agricultural Finance for Smallholder Farmers
  • 3 Strategies to Improve Smallholder Farmers' Access to Inputs and Finance
  • 3.1 Improving Security of Land Access
  • 3.2 Facilitating Access to Improved Seeds
  • 3.3 Promoting Fertiliser Access for Farmers
  • 3.4 Facilitating Agricultural Finance for Smallholder Farmers
  • 4 Concluding Remarks
  • References
  • Policies for Improved Food Security: The Roles of Land Tenure Policies and Land Markets
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Population Growth, Farm Size Distribution and Food Security
  • 3 Expansion of Medium-Sized Farms
  • 4 Increasing Landlessness and Migration
  • 5 Land Market Development
  • 6 Land Tenure Reforms, Tenure Security and Food Security
  • 7 Conclusions
  • References
  • Revisiting the Contribution of Agriculture to Nutrition Security
  • Transforming Smallholder Agriculture to Achieve the SDGs
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Achieving the SDGs and the Centrality of Small Farms
  • 2.1 Poverty Goals
  • 2.2 Nutrition Goals
  • 2.3 Social Goals
  • 2.4 Environmental Goals
  • 3 Economics of Small Farms and Stages of Structural Transformation
  • 3.1 Low-Productivity Agricultural Systems
  • 3.2 Modernising Agricultural Systems
  • 3.3 Commercialised Agricultural Systems
  • 4 Transaction Costs and the Commercialisation Process-Interventions and Policy Options in Different Production Systems.
  • 4.1 Farm-Specific Costs and Interventions in Different Production Systems
  • 4.2 Household-Specific Costs and Interventions in Different Production Systems
  • 4.3 Location-Specific Transaction Costs in Different Production Systems
  • 4.4 Crop-Specific Transaction Costs in Different Production Systems
  • 5 Conclusion
  • References
  • Impact of Casual and Permanent Off-Farm Activities on Food Security: The Case of India
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Food Security and Off-Farm Work in India
  • 3 Data
  • 4 Descriptive Statistics
  • 5 Methodology
  • 5.1 Estimation of Mean Impact
  • 5.2 Estimation of Heterogeneous Impact
  • 6 Result and Discussion
  • 7 Conclusion
  • References
  • The Superior Role of Agricultural Growth in Reducing Child Stunting: An Instrumental Variables Approach
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Model and Identification Strategy
  • 2.1 Empirical Model
  • 2.2 Estimation
  • 2.3 Identification
  • 3 Data
  • 4 Results
  • 4.1 Effect of Child Stunting on Sectoral Growth
  • 4.2 Effect of Sectoral Growth on Child Stunting
  • 4.3 Robustness Analyses
  • 5 Conclusions
  • Appendix
  • References
  • Conclusions
  • References.

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