Better Technology, Better Plots or Better Farmers? Identifying Changes in Productivity and Risk Among Malagasy Rice Farmers

By Christopher B. Barrett, Christine M. Moser. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Soil Science

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The System of Rice Intensification and its Impacts on Household Income and Child Schooling: Evidence from Rural Indonesia (2014, unknown): “This is consistent with the literature that shows significant increases in labor inputs for SRI plots (Rakotomalala, 1997; Barrett et al., 2004).”
Understanding and reducing persistent poverty in Africa: Introduction to a special issue (2006, background): “Barrett et al., building on Moser and Barrett (2003) and Barrett et al. (2004), discuss how poorer households in rural Madagascar have been effectively excluded by credit, insurance and labour constraints from uptake of a promising production technology that wealthier farmers have been able to use…”
Impact of tissue culture banana technology on farm household income and food security in Kenya (2014, background): “Moreover, especially in Africa, many available technologies are not, or only slowly, adopted, which may be due to unsuitable technological characteristics or unfavorable framework conditions (Barrett et al., 2004; Smale and Tushemereirwe, 2007).”
The Adoption and Impact of Soil and Water Conservation Technology: An Endogenous Switching Regression Application (2014, background): “Education is measured as the number of years of schooling completed among those 4 Recent evidence shows that African farmers’ subjective reporting of soil conditions has been quite accurate (Barrett et al. 2004; Suri 2011). with formal schooling.”
Mitigation potential and costs for global agricultural greenhouse gas emissions (2008, methodology): “Labor requirements to implement the mitigation options are estimated using a study on labor requirements for adopting rice intensification practices (Barrett et al., 2004).”
Rice yield and its relation to root growth and nutrient-use efficiency under SRI and conventional cultivation: an evaluation in Madagascar (2011, background): “But it is also possible that the farmers in our sample who were using both conventional and SRI practices were more capable farmers than average (Barrett et al. 2004).”
The effects of irrigation method, age of seedling and spacing on crop performance, productivity and water-wise rice production in Japan (2010, background): “In Madagascar, a comparison over 5 years found that SRI was labor-saving by years 4 and 5 ( Barrett et al. 2004 ).”
On Crop Biodiversity, Risk Exposure, and Food Security in the Highlands of Ethiopia (2009, unknown): “In the spirit of Barrett et al. (2004),13 the specification (8a′) corrects for the effects of factors specific to each location.”
Extreme vulnerability of smallholder farmers to agricultural risks and climate change in Madagascar (2014, background): “As in much of rural Madagascar and other parts of Africa [27–29], the farmers live in rustic houses, lack electricity and running water, own few assets and rely on natural ecosystems for drinking water, firewood, wild foods and materials for household construction.”
The Power and Pitfalls of Experiments in Development Economics: Some Non‐random Reflections (2010, background): “15 For example, the System of Rice Intensification (SRI), a novel rice production method that sharply increases yields without any new purchased inputs (Barrett et al. 2004), was developed by a missionary priest in Madagascar who had trained many years earlier as an agronomist.”