Governments of most countries attempt to influence the price consumers pay for food. In low-income countries the aim is frequently one of reducing consumer food prices below a free-market level. The results are what in this book is called consumer-oriented...
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Formal safety nets redistribute resources to poor people to reduce chronic poverty or to protect them against risks to their livelihoods—risks posed by disease, loss of employment, drought, conflict, financial crises, or macroeconomic adjustment, for example...
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The economic characteristics of subsidized inputs affect how the benefits of the subsidy on the input are distributed be‐ tween farmers and input suppliers. However, how the benefits are distributed across the population of farmers in a country depends...
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Farmer groups are considered potentially effective mechanisms to increase farmer livelihood by reducing information asymmetries and transaction costs. In many countries, farmers are coordinated in groups for participation in poverty reduction programs. This...
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Achieving food self-sufficiency on a national basis is a high priority for the government of Malawi. The goal of the Farm Input Subsidy Program (FISP) is to enhance food self-sufficiency by increasing smallholder farmers’ access to and use of improved...
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Though there is increasing evidence of the availability and potential of new agricultural technologies in Africa south of the Sahara, effective demand for them is still low. A recent refocus on increasing farmers’ use of modern technologies such as improved...
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