Agricultural Commercialisation and Food Security in Rural Economies : Malawian Experience

Agricultural Commercialisation and Food Security in Rural Economies : Malawian Experience

This paper contributes to the debate on the nutrition-related outcomes of cash crop adoption by using a model with essential heterogeneity and a semi-parametric estimation technique. The model explicitly frames non-separability between production and consumption decisions of farming households provi...

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Main Authors: Radchenko, Natalia, Corral, Paul
Format: Journal Article
Published: Taylor and Francis 2018
Subjects:
AGRICULTURAL COMMERIALIZATION
CASH CROPS
FOOD SECURITY
MARKET FAILURE
TREATMENT EFFECTS
HETEROGENEITY
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29431
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spelling okr-10986-294312021-05-25T10:54:34Z Agricultural Commercialisation and Food Security in Rural Economies : Malawian Experience Radchenko, Natalia Corral, Paul AGRICULTURAL COMMERIALIZATION CASH CROPS FOOD SECURITY MARKET FAILURE TREATMENT EFFECTS HETEROGENEITY This paper contributes to the debate on the nutrition-related outcomes of cash crop adoption by using a model with essential heterogeneity and a semi-parametric estimation technique. The model explicitly frames non-separability between production and consumption decisions of farming households providing an original test of separability. The empirical application is run using Malawian data. The results imply rational anticipations and decision process of agrarian households relative to the crop portfolio choice, disparate strength of market barriers faced by the farmers, non-separability between production and consumption decisions and a weak transmission from agricultural incomes to higher food expenditures and better diet. 2018-03-07T20:24:22Z 2018-03-07T20:24:22Z 2017-02-02 Journal Article The Journal of Development Studies 0022-0388 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29431 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Taylor and Francis Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Africa Malawi
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topic AGRICULTURAL COMMERIALIZATION
CASH CROPS
FOOD SECURITY
MARKET FAILURE
TREATMENT EFFECTS
HETEROGENEITY
spellingShingle AGRICULTURAL COMMERIALIZATION
CASH CROPS
FOOD SECURITY
MARKET FAILURE
TREATMENT EFFECTS
HETEROGENEITY
Radchenko, Natalia
Corral, Paul
Agricultural Commercialisation and Food Security in Rural Economies : Malawian Experience
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description This paper contributes to the debate on the nutrition-related outcomes of cash crop adoption by using a model with essential heterogeneity and a semi-parametric estimation technique. The model explicitly frames non-separability between production and consumption decisions of farming households providing an original test of separability. The empirical application is run using Malawian data. The results imply rational anticipations and decision process of agrarian households relative to the crop portfolio choice, disparate strength of market barriers faced by the farmers, non-separability between production and consumption decisions and a weak transmission from agricultural incomes to higher food expenditures and better diet.
format Journal Article
author Radchenko, Natalia
Corral, Paul
author_facet Radchenko, Natalia
Corral, Paul
author_sort Radchenko, Natalia
title Agricultural Commercialisation and Food Security in Rural Economies : Malawian Experience
title_short Agricultural Commercialisation and Food Security in Rural Economies : Malawian Experience
title_full Agricultural Commercialisation and Food Security in Rural Economies : Malawian Experience
title_fullStr Agricultural Commercialisation and Food Security in Rural Economies : Malawian Experience
title_full_unstemmed Agricultural Commercialisation and Food Security in Rural Economies : Malawian Experience
title_sort agricultural commercialisation and food security in rural economies : malawian experience
publisher Taylor and Francis
publishDate 2018
url http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29431
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