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    Limitations of contract farming as a pro-poor strategy: The case of maize outgrower schemes in upper West Ghana

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2017
    Western Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Ghana
    Land Stakeholders & Institutions
    farming systems
    contract farming
    agricultural and rural legislation
    agriculture
    research

    The focus in this paper is on two relatively large maize-based contract farming (CF) schemes with fixed input packages (Masara and Akate) and a number of smaller and more flexible CF schemes in a remote region in Ghana (Upper West). Results show that these schemes led to improved technology adoption and yield increases. In addition, a subset of maize farmers with high yield improvements due to CF participation had high gross margins. However, on average, yields were not high enough to compensate for higher input requirements and cost of capital.

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    Agricultural land in Myanmar’s dry zone

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2017
    South-Eastern Asia, Asia, Myanmar
    farmland
    land use
    agriculture
    rural population

    In this research highlight, we present analysis of agricultural land use, distribution, access, tenure, land markets, and historical patterns of ownership and disposal. Findings are derived from a representative survey of 1578 rural households in Myanmar’s Central Dry Zone - the Rural Economy and Agriculture Dry Zone Survey (READZ). The READZ survey was conducted from April to May 2017 in four townships (Magway, Pwinbyu, Myittha, and Budalin) in Magway, Mandalay and Sagaing regions.

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    Nutrition incentives in dairy contract farming in northern Senegal

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2017
    Western Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Senegal
    Land & Food Security
    Land & Gender
    contract farming
    women
    farming systems
    rural areas

    Health-related incentives to reward effort or commitment are commonplace in many professional contracts throughout the world. Typically absent from small-scale agriculture in poor countries, such incentives may help overcome both health issues for remote rural families and supply issues for firms. Using a randomized control design, we investigate the impact of adding a micronutrient-fortified product in contracts between a Senegalese dairy processing factory and its seminomadic milk suppliers.

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    Animal sourced foods and child stunting

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2017
    Land & Food Security
    youth
    food security
    fisheries
    agricultural and rural legislation
    land policies

    Stunting affects 160 million pre-school children around the world, and imposes significant costs on a child’s health, cognitive development, schooling and economic performance. Stunting in early childhood has been linked to poor dietary diversity, notably low intake of animal-sourced foods (ASFs) rich in high quality protein and other growth-stimulating nutrients. Surprisingly, however, very little economic research has focused on ASFs and child growth. In this paper we redress this omission through an analysis of 112,553 children aged 6-23 months from 46 countries.

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    Implications of wide-scale cropland restoration: A crucial element of the forest landscape restoration approach

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2017
    Land & Food Security
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    Forest Tenure
    farmland
    youth
    food security
    land degradation
    deforestation
    forestry
    sustainable land management
    forest management plans
    agriculture

    The results of this study reveal that the full inclusion of crop production in the forest landscape restoration approach could produce largescale,
    worldwide benefits for food security and therefore facilitate a wide uptake of restoration practices and the implementation of large
    restoration projects. The positive impacts are multifaceted and significant in size: a reduction in malnourished children ranging from three
    to six million; a reduced number of people at risk of hunger, estimated to be between 70 and 151 million; reduced pressure for expansion

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