Understanding the agricultural input landscape in Sub-Saharan Africa : recent plot, household, and community-level evidence
By Megan Sheahan, Christopher B. Barrett. 2014
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Conventional wisdom holds that Sub-Saharan African farmers use few modern inputs despite the fact that most growth-inducing and poverty-reducing agricultural growth in the region is expected to come largely from expanded use of inputs that embody improved technologies, particularly improved seed, fertilizers and other agro-chemicals, machinery, and irrigation. Yet following several years of high food prices, concerted policy efforts to intensify fertilizer and hybrid seed use, and increased public and private investment in agriculture, how low is modern input use in Africa really? This paper revisits Africa's agricultural input landscape, exploiting the unique, recently collected, nationally representative, agriculturally intensive, and cross-country comparable Living Standard Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture covering six countries in the region (Ethiopia, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda). The study uses data from more than 22,000 households and 62,000 plots to investigate a range of commonly held conceptions about modern input use in Africa, distilling the most striking and important findings into 10 key takeaway descriptive results.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science
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- Closing the Gender Gap in Agriculture (2016, background): “Substantial gender gaps in access and control continue to exist in regard to six key resources and inputs for agriculture: land, labor, credit, information, extension, and technology (Sheahan & Barrett, 2014; World Bank, 2012; World Bank & IFPRI, 2010).”
- The Effect of Land Access on Youth Employment and Migration Decisions: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia (2018, unknown): “straints (Ali and Deininger, 2015; Barrett et al., 2010; Bellemare, 2013; Carletto et al., 2013; Headey et al., 2014; Larson et al., 2014; Sheahan and Barrett, 2014), labor-saving technologies may substitute for youth farm labor (Bustos et al.”