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Determinants of Farm Productivity in Africa: A Synthesis of Four Case Studies

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Thomas Reardon () (Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University)
Valerie Kelly
Eric Crawford
Thomas Jayne
Kimseyinga Savadogo
Daniel Clay

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Abstract

The bulk of studies on farm productivity were done in the 1960s and 1970s before land became constraining. Our understanding of African farm productivity needs to be updated to see how farmers are responding to recent policy, economic, and environmental changes. We aim in this report to "dig below" aggregate trends to uncover differences in patterns and determinants of productivity over agroclimatic zones, types of technology, degrees of environmental degradation, and levels of improved inputs. The report synthesizes studies in four countries. The Burkina Faso, Rwanda, and Senegal studies use detailed farm-survey data from the past decade. The Zimbabwe study uses aggregate data from the past two decades which is stratified by farm type (commercial and smallholder).

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Paper provided by Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University in its series International Development Policy Syntheses with number 22.

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Keywords: food security; food policy; farm productivity;

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Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy

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  6. David D. Rohrbach, 1989. "The Economics of Smallholder Maize Production in Zimbabwe: Implications for Food Security," International Development Papers 11, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University. [Downloadable!]
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  8. Reardon, Thomas & Crawford, Eric & Kelly, Valerie & Diagana, Bocar, 1995. "Promoting Farm Investment For Sustainable Intensification Of African Agriculture," Food Security III Papers 11352, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics. [Downloadable!]
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  11. Dibley, David & Boughton, Duncan & Reardon, Thomas, 1995. "Processing and preparation costs for rice and coarse grains in urban Mali: Subjecting an Ipse Dixit to empirical scrutiny," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 20(1), pages 41-50, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  15. Valerie Kelly & Robert D. Stevens & Thomas Stilwell & Michael T. Weber, 1983. "An Annotated Directory of Statistical and Related Microcomputer Software for Socioeconomic Data Analysis," International Development Working Papers 12, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University. [Downloadable!]
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  6. Traub, Lulama Ndibongo & Jayne, T.S., 2004. "The Effects of Market Reform on Maize Marketing Margins in South Africa," Food Security III Papers 11445, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics. [Downloadable!]
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