Land use consolidation in Rwanda: The experiences of small-scale farmers in Musanze District, Northern Province
| Autor: | Emmanuel Muyombano, Margareta Espling |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Food security
Land use business.industry Geography Planning and Development 0211 other engineering and technologies Subsistence agriculture 021107 urban & regional planning Forestry 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law Modernization theory 01 natural sciences Agricultural economics Economies of scale Geography Agriculture Agricultural productivity business Socioeconomic status 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Nature and Landscape Conservation |
| Zdroj: | Land Use Policy. 99:105060 |
| ISSN: | 0264-8377 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.105060 |
| Popis: | The modernization and intensification of agricultural production in Africa has long been a policy goal, for increased productivity and food security. In 2008, the Rwandan government implemented various land and agricultural reforms to transform Rwandan agriculture from subsistence farming to market-oriented production. Central to this agricultural transformation was the Crop Intensification Programme, intended to increase the agricultural productivity of high-potential food crops and encourage land use consolidation, i.e., the joint cultivation of large areas, which was expected to deliver important economies of scale. This programme has been criticized, for example, for authoritarian implementation, negative effects on food security from sole-cropping a few selected crops, and increasing rural socioeconomic differentiation. This paper analyses the effects of the land use consolidation programme at the household level, as experienced by small-scale farmers in Musanze District in the Northern Province of Rwanda. The paper draws on 45 individual and 22 collective qualitative semi-structured interviews with small-scale farmers and local key informants in five sectors, conducted in 2013 and 2014. The findings show that there is satisfaction, dissatisfaction, and resistance to the programme, especially regarding the selected crops to be cultivated. The programme, including supporting mechanisms, seems to work well for the relatively better-off farmers, who have bigger and scattered land areas, whereas it does not work well for poor farmers with very small plots, which is common in rural Rwanda. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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