Impact of crop commercialization on smallholder farmers’ resilience to shocks: Evidence from panel data for rural Southeast Asia

IF 6.8 1区经济学 Q1 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY

Food Policy Pub Date : 2024-08-18 DOI:10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102709

Manh Hung Do, Trung Thanh Nguyen

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Abstract

We assess the impact of crop commercialization on the resilience to shocks of smallholder farmers and examine which groups of smallholders are more resilient from crop commercialization. We use balanced panel of 1,370 smallholders from Thailand and 1,497 smallholders from Vietnam collected in three survey waves for the empirical analysis. We employ a generalized structural equation model to estimate the (latent) variable of smallholders’ resilience. Then, we apply fixed-effects estimations with an instrumental variable and a control function approach to address the endogeneity concerns of crop commercialization in assessing the impact of commercialization on the resilience of smallholders. The results show that crop commercialization has a positive effect on smallholders’ resilience capacity. To examine which groups of smallholders are more resilient from crop commercialization, we apply an unconditional quantile regression model. The results show that crop commercialization has the highest impact on smallholders in 10th and 25th quantile groups of resilience capacity. Thus, crop commercialization should be stimulated to improve smallholders’ resilience to shocks. Besides, improving infrastructure for transportation and information and communication technology at the village level and the effectiveness of public governance at the national level could lead to a better resilience of smallholders.

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作物商业化对小农抵御冲击能力的影响：来自东南亚农村地区面板数据的证据

我们评估了农作物商业化对小农户抵御冲击能力的影响，并研究了哪些小农户群体更能抵御农作物商业化的冲击。我们使用在三次调查中收集的来自泰国的 1,370 个小农户和来自越南的 1,497 个小农户的平衡面板进行实证分析。我们采用广义结构方程模型来估计小农户抗逆力的（潜在）变量。然后，在评估商业化对小农户抗逆力的影响时，我们采用固定效应估算法、工具变量法和控制函数法来解决作物商业化的内生性问题。结果表明，农作物商业化对小农户的抗灾能力有积极影响。为了研究哪些小农户群体从农作物商业化中获得更强的抗逆能力，我们采用了无条件量化回归模型。结果显示，农作物商业化对抗灾能力处于第 10 和第 25 个量级的小农户影响最大。因此，应鼓励作物商业化，以提高小农户抵御冲击的能力。此外，改善村一级的交通和信息通信技术基础设施以及提高国家一级公共治理的效率，也能提高小农户的抗冲击能力。

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来源期刊

Food Policy 管理科学-农业经济与政策

CiteScore

11.40

自引率

4.60%

发文量

128

审稿时长

62 days

期刊介绍： Food Policy is a multidisciplinary journal publishing original research and novel evidence on issues in the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of policies for the food sector in developing, transition, and advanced economies. Our main focus is on the economic and social aspect of food policy, and we prioritize empirical studies informing international food policy debates. Provided that articles make a clear and explicit contribution to food policy debates of international interest, we consider papers from any of the social sciences. Papers from other disciplines (e.g., law) will be considered only if they provide a key policy contribution, and are written in a style which is accessible to a social science readership.