| Autor: |
Martin Prowse, Paul Grassin |
| Rok vydání: |
2019 |
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| Zdroj: |
Tobacco, Transformation and Development Dilemmas from Central Africa ISBN: 9783030339845 |
| DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-030-33985-2_2 |
| Popis: |
This chapter introduces the reform process in the 1990s that encouraged smallholder adoption of burley tobacco. After describing the momentum that led to such a significant policy change, the chapter investigates whether adoption of burley tobacco led to increases in maize production and productivity by applying propensity score matching to three cross-sections. The findings suggest tobacco growers increased local not hybrid maize production and productivity, sold less and purchased more maize, but, surprisingly, conducted more and worse coping strategies than non-growers in the famine year of 2001/2002. The chapter concludes by highlighting how smallholders’ preference for local maize has relevance for current national policy debates. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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