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    Women’s Land Rights as a Pathway to Poverty Reduction cover image

    Women’s land rights as a pathway to poverty reduction

    A framework and review of available evidence

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    July, 2017
    Global
    Land & Gender
    gender equity in access to land
    land rights
    poverty
    sustainable development
    women

    Land is an important asset for rural households, and having secure land rights is important for poverty reduction. Despite the large body of literature on the relationship between land tenure security, livelihoods, and poverty, most of this literature is based on household-level data and does not consider possible intrahousehold inequalities in land ownership.

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    Tobacco contractual arrangements in Malawi and their impact on smallholder farmers: Evidence from Burley Tobacco contracts

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2017
    Southern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Malawi
    contract farming

    Contract farming is emerging as an important governance structure in certain agricultural value chains. This study was done with the objectives of understanding the contractual relations between buyers and small-scale growers in the tobacco industry in Malawi and the impact of contract farming on smallholder incomes. Cross-sectional data was collected from 211 contract and 109 non-contract smallholder burley tobacco farmers who sold tobacco in the 2012/13 season. Two analyses were undertaken.

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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
    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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    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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