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The case of India’s agricultural extension policy
No full textMany countries have recognized the need to revive agricultural advisory or extension services (the terms are used interchangeably here) as a means of using agriculture as an engine of pro-poor growth; reaching marginalized, poor, and female farmers; and addressing new challenges, such as environmental degradation and climate change. In spite of ample experience with extension reform worldwide, identifying the reform options most likely to make extension more demand-driven remains a major challenge. The concept of demand-driven services implies making extension more responsive to the needs of all farmers, including women and those who are poor and marginalized. It also implies making extension more accountable to farmers and, as a consequence, more effective. This essay discusses various options for providing and financing agricultural advisory services, which involve the public and private sectors as well as a third sector comprising nongovernmental organizations and farmer-based organizations. We review the market and state failures, and the “community” failures (failures of non-governmental and farmer-based organizations) inherent in existing models of providing and financing agricultural extension services and then outline strategies to address those failures and make extension demand-driven. Then we examine India’s Policy Framework for Agricultural Extension, which has demand-driven extension as one of its major objectives, and review available survey information on the state of extension in India. We conclude that although the framework proposes a wide range of strategies to make agricultural extension demand-driven, it is less specific in addressing the challenges inherent in those strategies. Moreover, it remains unclear whether the strategies proposed in the framework will be able to address one of the major problems identified by farm household surveys: access to agricultural extension." -- from Authors' AbstractNon-PRIFPRI1; Theme 5; Subtheme 5.2DSG
Los derechos de propiedad, la acción colectiva y las tecnologías para el manejo de los recursos naturales
No full textDegradation of natural resources has be come a global probelem that threatens the livelihood of millions of poor people. Many promising technologies for natural resource management are available to address these problems, but farmers and others often fail to adopt them. Why is this? Although many factors can be identified, lack of secure property rights and collective action deserve greater attention from policy makers and technology developers.Non-PRIFPRI2; CAPRIEPT
a tale from northern Mali
No full textThis paper investigates whether inferences drawn about a population are sensitive to the manner by which those data are obtained. It compares information obtained using participatory appraisal techniques with a survey of households randomly drawn from a locally administered census that had been carefully revised. The community map tends to include household members who do not, in fact, reside in the enumerated locality. By contrast, the revised official census is slightly more likely to exclude household members who actually lived in the surveyed area. Controlling for the survey technique, we find that the revised official census produces higher estimates of average household size and wealth but lower estimates of total village size or wealth, than the community map. Pairwise comparison of the survey techniques, holding the households constant, shows that the community map leads, on average, to higher estimates of household size and lower estimates of wealth.Non-PRIFPRI1FCN
la pauvrete dans les villages malgaches -- les changements relatifs à l’accès aux services publics et aux taux de salaire rural de 1987 à 1997
No full textNon-PRIFPRI1MSSD; FCN
Should private storage be subsidized to stabilize agricultural markets after price support schemes are removed?
No full textCurrently, there is increased focus on the methods in which public interventions stabilize agricultural markets. The subsidization of private storage is one of the options advocated. However, the efficiency of such an instrument is still being discussed and has not yet been explored in the context of imperfect information. Nevertheless, this is one of the potential sources of market fluctuations and one of the arguments in favor of a public intervention on agricultural markets. To fill this gap, our main objective in this paper is to simulate the effects of a subsidization of storage costs, aimed at stimulating private storage at the world level, on markets fluctuations following Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reforms, so as to stimulate private storage at the world level, and to study the welfare effects of this public intervention.Non-PRIFPRI1; Theme 2; Subtheme 2.1MTI
Southern African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis - Swaziland
No full textNon-PRIFPRI2; CRP7CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS
A comparison between the PEP 1-1 model and the IFPRI standard model
No full textThe PEP model is an extension of the widely used EXTER model and is the result of collaboration between Bernard Decaluwé, André Lemelin, Hélène Maisonnave and Véronique Robichaud from the PEP network. Given that there is a series of PEP models, we will focus here only on the static single country general equilibrium model called PEP1-1 (1 period – 1 country), which is comparable to the IFPRI model. It is a general model prepared for PEP members and other modelers for policy analysis at the national level.Non-PRIFPRI1; AGRODEPMTI
Progress and policy challenges
No full textThe perception of Ethiopia projected in the media is often one of chronic poverty and hunger, but this bleak assessment does not accurately reflect most of the country today. Ethiopia encompasses a wide variety of agroecologies and peoples. Its agriculture sector, economy, and food security status are equally complex. In fact, since 2001 the per capita income in certain rural areas has risen by more than 50 percent, and crop yields and availability have also increased. Higher investments in roads and mobile phone technology have led to improved infrastructure and thereby greater access to markets, commodities, services, and information. In Food and Agriculture in Ethiopia: Progress and Policy Challenges, Paul Dorosh and Shahidur Rashid, along with other experts, tell the story of Ethiopia's political, economic, and agricultural transformation. The book is designed to provide empirical evidence to shed light on the complexities of agricultural and food policy in today's Ethiopia, highlight major policies and interventions of the past decade, and provide insights into building resilience to natural disasters and food crises. It examines the key issues, constraints, and opportunities that are likely to shape a food-secure future in Ethiopia, focusing on land quality, crop production, adoption of high-quality seed and fertilizer, and household income.PRIFPRI2; GRP27; Theme 3; Subtheme 3.2; ESSPDSGD; MTI