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Farmers face a variety of market and production risks that make their incomes volatile from year to year. In many cases, farmers also confront the risk of catastrophe, as, for example, when crops are destroyed by drought or pest outbreaks or when assets and lives are lost to hurricanes and floods. These risks are particularly burdensome to the poor, including many small farmers. Unless adequately managed, they can slow economic development and poverty reduction and contribute to humanitarian crises.
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drought,
Economic Development,
farmers,
2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture, and the Environment,
2020,
IFPRI-1,
Poverty reduction,
English,
MTID,
Markets, Trade and Institutions,
GRP-4,
2020 Focus Brief,
Production risk,
Government

Using a large household survey data, this study examines the impact of government involvement in agricultural service provision on the use of modern inputs by farmers in Nigeria. The empirical methodology used in this study is based on the multilevel (nested) mixed effects estimator and controls for systematic differences and unobserved heterogeneity across sub-national governments. The empirical findings suggest that government involvement in agricultural service provision positively influences the farmers’ input use.
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IFPRI Discussion Paper,
DSGD,
GRP-32,
Decentralization,
GRP-36,
household survey data,
Discussion Papers,
agricultural services,
fertilizer use,
input use,
modern inputs,
poor farmers,
unobserved heterogeneity,
IFPRI-1,
English,
Government

Reducing malnutrition, including undernutrition (insufficient calorie intake) and micronutrient deficiencies (insufficient intake of vitamins and minerals) is a high priority for Malawi and many developing country governments, closely linked to achieving the Millennium Development Goals. However, effective policy intervention requires knowing what causes malnutrition and how different development policies affect the nutritional status of the population.
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Africa,
Millennium Development Goals,
Southern Africa,
Malawi,
developing countries,
malnutrition,
Undernutrition,
Malawi Strategy Support Program,
MaSSP Brief,
MaSSP,
food demand system model,
price policies,
household survey data,
English,
Government