SIERRA LEONE: Crops That Are Fighting Poverty

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A Borgen Project article covers several crops that are fighting poverty around the world:  Potatoes in China, cassava in sub-Saharan Africa, rice in Sierra Leone, pearl millet in India and more. …Rice in Sierra Leone: Agriculture accounts for 57% of Sierra Leone’s GDP, with rice reigning as the primary staple crop. However, as of 2011, […]

TANZANIA: Who benefits from climate-friendly agriculture? The marginal returns to a rainfed system of rice intensification in Tanzania

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…technologies that raise farmers’ crop productivity while mitigating risk exposure are particularly valuable. This study assesses the impact of a variant of the system of rice intensification (SRI) on expected yields, yield variance (variability) and yield skewness (exposure to downside risk) in Tanzania. The appeal of the technology lies in its yield-enhancing potential, its low […]

KENYA: Comparing productivity of rice under System of Rice Intensification and conventional flooding: A switching regression approach

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This paper examined the factors influencing rice productivity in Kenya’s Mwea Irrigation Scheme using the System of rice intensification (SRI) and conventional flooding (CF). Analysis of 364 farmer interviews with an Endogenous Switching regression Model (ESRM) revealed that factors such as household size, access to extension services, involvement in off-farm work, distance from the canal, […]