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Micro insights on the pathways to agricultural transformation: Comparative evidence from Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa

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Title Micro insights on the pathways to agricultural transformation: Comparative evidence from Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
 
Creator Amare, Mulubrhan
Parvathi, Priyanka
Trung Thanh Nguyen
 
Subject agricultural transformation
smallholders
income
farming systems
agricultural sector
ecology
 
Description Most studies of agricultural transformation document the impact of agricultural income growth on macroeconomic indicators of development. Much less is known about the micro-scale changes within the farming sector that signal a transformation precipitated by agricultural income growth. This study provides a comparative analysis of the patterns of micro-level changes that occur among small-holder farmers in Uganda and Malawi in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and Thailand and Vietnam in Southeast Asia (SEA). Our analysis provides several important insights on agricultural transformation in these two regions. First, agricultural income in all examined countries is vulnerable to changes in precipitation and temperature, an effect that is nonlinear and asymmetric. SSA countries are more vulnerable to these weather changes. Second, exogenous increases in agricultural income in previous years improve non-farm income and trigger a change in labor allocation within the rural sector in SEA. However, this is the opposite in SSA where the increase in agricultural income reduces non-farm income, indicating a substitution effect between farm and non-farm sectors. These findings reveal clear agricultural transformation driven by agricultural income in SEA but no similar evidence in SSA.
 
Date 2023-03
2023-04-28T13:49:33Z
2023-04-28T13:49:33Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Amare, Mulubrhan; Parvathi, Priyanka; and Nguyen, Trung Thanh. 2023. Micro insights on the pathways to agricultural transformation: Comparative evidence from Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics 71(1): 69-87. https://doi.org/10.1111/cjag.12326
0008-3976
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/130178
https://doi.org/10.1111/cjag.12326
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 69-87
 
Publisher Wiley
 
Source Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics