Micro-Level Welfare Impacts of Agricultural Productivity : Evidence from Rural Malawi

This article analyses the micro-level welfare impacts of agricultural productivity using a two-wave nationally representative, panel data from rural Malawi. Welfare is measured by various dimensions of poverty and food insecurity; and agricultural productivity is measured by maize yield and value of...

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Main Authors:	Addeah Darko, Francis, Palacios-Lopez, Amparo, Kilic, Talip, Ricker-Gilbert, Jacob
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Taylor and Francis 2018
Subjects:	WELFARE WELFARE IMPACT AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY POVERTY FOOD SECURITY CALORIC INTAKE SPILLOVER EFFECT
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29661

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spelling	okr-10986-296612021-05-25T10:54:36Z Micro-Level Welfare Impacts of Agricultural Productivity : Evidence from Rural Malawi Addeah Darko, Francis Palacios-Lopez, Amparo Kilic, Talip Ricker-Gilbert, Jacob WELFARE WELFARE IMPACT AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY POVERTY FOOD SECURITY CALORIC INTAKE SPILLOVER EFFECT This article analyses the micro-level welfare impacts of agricultural productivity using a two-wave nationally representative, panel data from rural Malawi. Welfare is measured by various dimensions of poverty and food insecurity; and agricultural productivity is measured by maize yield and value of crop output per hectare. The poverty measures included per capita consumption expenditure, relative deprivation in terms of per capita consumption expenditure, poverty gap and severity of poverty; and the measures of food insecurity included caloric intake and relative deprivation in terms of caloric intake. Depending on the measure of welfare, the impact of agricultural productivity was estimated with a household fixed effects estimator, a two-part estimator or a correlated-random effect ordered probit estimator. The results indicate that growth in agricultural productivity has the expected welfare-improving effect. In terms of economic magnitude, however, both the direct effect and economy-wide spillover effect (in the non-farm sector) of a percentage increase in agricultural productivity on the poverty and food security measures are small. Efforts to effectively improve the welfare of rural agricultural households should therefore go beyond merely increasing agricultural (land) productivity. 2018-04-11T19:44:11Z 2018-04-11T19:44:11Z 2018 Journal Article The Journal of Development Studies 0022-0388 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29661 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	WELFARE WELFARE IMPACT AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY POVERTY FOOD SECURITY CALORIC INTAKE SPILLOVER EFFECT
spellingShingle	WELFARE WELFARE IMPACT AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY POVERTY FOOD SECURITY CALORIC INTAKE SPILLOVER EFFECT Addeah Darko, Francis Palacios-Lopez, Amparo Kilic, Talip Ricker-Gilbert, Jacob Micro-Level Welfare Impacts of Agricultural Productivity : Evidence from Rural Malawi
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description	This article analyses the micro-level welfare impacts of agricultural productivity using a two-wave nationally representative, panel data from rural Malawi. Welfare is measured by various dimensions of poverty and food insecurity; and agricultural productivity is measured by maize yield and value of crop output per hectare. The poverty measures included per capita consumption expenditure, relative deprivation in terms of per capita consumption expenditure, poverty gap and severity of poverty; and the measures of food insecurity included caloric intake and relative deprivation in terms of caloric intake. Depending on the measure of welfare, the impact of agricultural productivity was estimated with a household fixed effects estimator, a two-part estimator or a correlated-random effect ordered probit estimator. The results indicate that growth in agricultural productivity has the expected welfare-improving effect. In terms of economic magnitude, however, both the direct effect and economy-wide spillover effect (in the non-farm sector) of a percentage increase in agricultural productivity on the poverty and food security measures are small. Efforts to effectively improve the welfare of rural agricultural households should therefore go beyond merely increasing agricultural (land) productivity.
format	Journal Article
author	Addeah Darko, Francis Palacios-Lopez, Amparo Kilic, Talip Ricker-Gilbert, Jacob
author_facet	Addeah Darko, Francis Palacios-Lopez, Amparo Kilic, Talip Ricker-Gilbert, Jacob
author_sort	Addeah Darko, Francis
title	Micro-Level Welfare Impacts of Agricultural Productivity : Evidence from Rural Malawi
title_short	Micro-Level Welfare Impacts of Agricultural Productivity : Evidence from Rural Malawi
title_full	Micro-Level Welfare Impacts of Agricultural Productivity : Evidence from Rural Malawi
title_fullStr	Micro-Level Welfare Impacts of Agricultural Productivity : Evidence from Rural Malawi
title_full_unstemmed	Micro-Level Welfare Impacts of Agricultural Productivity : Evidence from Rural Malawi
title_sort	micro-level welfare impacts of agricultural productivity : evidence from rural malawi
publisher	Taylor and Francis
publishDate	2018
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29661
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Micro-Level Welfare Impacts of Agricultural Productivity : Evidence from Rural Malawi

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