Public–private partnership generates economic benefits to smallholder bean growers in Uganda

IF 5.6 1区农林科学 Q1 FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Food Security Pub Date : 2022-08-17 DOI:10.1007/s12571-022-01309-5

Paul Aseete, Andrew Barkley, Enid Katungi, Michael Adrogu Ugen, Eliud Birachi

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Abstract

The quest to transform and hasten the role of smallholder farms in agricultural development and food security through farmer-firm linkages has dominated development interventions in low-income countries for several decades. This has mostly been pursued through single- or multi-contract schemes implemented in isolation. Several studies have analyzed the effects of these schemes on smallholder farms with mixed results. A new paradigm is to use Agricultural Public Private Partnership (Ag-PPP) to achieve wider and sustainable impacts. However, limited empirical evidence exists on the effects of Ag-PPP interventions and targeting the same farmer. We address this research gap by assessing the impact of an Ag-PPP on small-scale common bean producers in Uganda. We use a doubly robust difference-in-difference approach in a multi-treatment setting to estimate these impacts. The results show that the PPP created positive outcomes for farmers and stimulated increased production from targeted interventions. Evidence shows that the PPP and its interventions were associated with significant increases in productivity, sales volumes, and shares of output marketed. Receiving bundled interventions had greater effects than a single intervention and effects varied between men and women bean crop owners. Results suggest that providing bundled interventions through a PPP can increase productivity and alleviate market access constraints. The outcomes of this Ag-PPP could be modified for other contexts i.e., crops and localities, to inform food and development policy elsewhere.

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公私伙伴关系为乌干达的小农大豆种植者带来了经济效益

几十年来，通过农民与企业的联系来改变和加快小农农场在农业发展和粮食安全方面的作用一直是低收入国家发展干预措施的主要内容。这主要是通过单独实施的单一或多重合同计划来实现的。几项研究分析了这些计划对小农农场的影响，结果好坏参半。一种新的模式是利用农业公私伙伴关系(Ag-PPP)来实现更广泛和可持续的影响。然而，针对同一农民的Ag-PPP干预效果的实证证据有限。我们通过评估农业ppp对乌干达小规模普通豆生产者的影响来解决这一研究缺口。我们在多治疗设置中使用双鲁棒差中差方法来估计这些影响。结果表明，PPP为农民创造了积极的结果，并通过有针对性的干预措施刺激了产量的增加。有证据表明，购买力平价及其干预措施与生产力、销售量和市场产出份额的显著增加有关。接受捆绑干预的效果比单一干预的效果更大，而且效果在男性和女性豆类作物所有者之间有所不同。结果表明，通过PPP提供捆绑干预措施可以提高生产率并缓解市场准入限制。这种农业-公私伙伴关系的结果可以根据其他情况(如作物和地区)进行修改，以便为其他地方的粮食和发展政策提供信息。

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Food Security FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY-

CiteScore

14.00

自引率

6.00%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Food Security is a wide audience, interdisciplinary, international journal dedicated to the procurement, access (economic and physical), and quality of food, in all its dimensions. Scales range from the individual to communities, and to the world food system. We strive to publish high-quality scientific articles, where quality includes, but is not limited to, the quality and clarity of text, and the validity of methods and approaches. Food Security is the initiative of a distinguished international group of scientists from different disciplines who hold a deep concern for the challenge of global food security, together with a vision of the power of shared knowledge as a means of meeting that challenge. To address the challenge of global food security, the journal seeks to address the constraints - physical, biological and socio-economic - which not only limit food production but also the ability of people to access a healthy diet. From this perspective, the journal covers the following areas: Global food needs: the mismatch between population and the ability to provide adequate nutrition Global food potential and global food production Natural constraints to satisfying global food needs: § Climate, climate variability, and climate change § Desertification and flooding § Natural disasters § Soils, soil quality and threats to soils, edaphic and other abiotic constraints to production § Biotic constraints to production, pathogens, pests, and weeds in their effects on sustainable production The sociological contexts of food production, access, quality, and consumption. Nutrition, food quality and food safety. Socio-political factors that impinge on the ability to satisfy global food needs: § Land, agricultural and food policy § International relations and trade § Access to food § Financial policy § Wars and ethnic unrest Research policies and priorities to ensure food security in its various dimensions.