The Role of Smallholder Farms in Food and Nutrition Security.

• Author: Gomez y Paloma, Sergio.
• TeilnehmendeR: Riesgo, Laura.; Louhichi, Kamel.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2020.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (253 pages)

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.