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Discussion of session on:
How, Where and When Agriculture Can Be Used
to Address Chronic Poverty
Thom Jayne
Michigan State UniversityConference on Escaping Poverty Traps
Washington, DCFebruary 26-27, 2009
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LOW AGRICULTURAL INCOMES ARE GENERALLY CORRELATED WITH HIGH POVERTY RATES
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National Poverty Rates (various years)
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Lewis presentation
• Laudable and ambitious in its goals• Identifies the crucial policies and programs• Presented as if donor resolve, funding, and a
good strategy will be successful in slashing poverty rates
• Even with significant rise in funding for donor programs, their effects will be overshadowed by government programs and policies.
• The most important determinant of poverty rates in the future will be public policies and programs (lessons from structural transformation in Asia)
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Farm size distribution: Small farm sector
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Ken Eth Rwa Moz Zam
bottom 25%2nd 3rdtop 25%
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Characteristics of smallholder farmers, Zambia 2003/04
2576103732.2762,566
(75%)
Households not selling maize
514135745413.9234,988
(23%)
Rest of maize sellers
2,2828236901,5586.023,680
(2%)
Top 50% of maize sales
Total hh income (US$)
Gr. Rev., crop sales
(US$)
Gr. Rev., maize sales
(US$)
Asset values
(US$)
Farm size (ha)
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Rural population growth rates
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Share of Urban population in total population, 1968 and 2000
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More than 50% of Africa’s population will be urban by 2015.
Driven largely by land pressures lack of investments in rural areas to boost productivity
Majority of African populations are soon to be consumers of food, not producers
Demand for marketed food is rising rapidly Future priorities to tackle: urban poverty,
underemployment, rise of slums, poor sanitation, disease
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Donorbudget support
Government budget
•Long-term productive investments: R&D, extension, roads, rail, ports, electrification, policy stability, etc.
• Low immediate payoffs• High medium/long-term payoffs
• Input subsidies, • Crop price supports for larger farms (lion’s share of total sales) • land bills, food aid
• Immediate political payoffs;• Visible support to constituencies• contribution to sustainable poverty reduction is unclear
Political economy of public resource allocation
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Marginal expenditure to reduce poverty
100 80 60 40 20 0
Headcount poverty rates
Agricultural development investments and policies
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Marginal expenditure to reduce poverty
100 80 60 40 20 0
Headcount poverty rates
Safety net programs Agricultural
development investments and policies