Understanding the Agricultural Input Landscape in Sub-Saharan Africa : Recent Plot, Household, and Community-Level Evidence

Sheahan, Megan ; Barrett, Christopher B.

World Bank Group, Washington, DC

关键词: ADMINISTRATIVE REGIONS;    AGRICULTURAL AREAS;    AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES;    AGRICULTURAL DATA;    AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-7014
RP-ID  :  WPS7014

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Conventional wisdom holds thatSub-Saharan African farmers use few modern inputs despitethe fact that most growth-inducing and poverty-reducingagricultural growth in the region is expected to comelargely from expanded use of inputs that embody improvedtechnologies, particularly improved seed, fertilizers andother agro-chemicals, machinery, and irrigation. Yetfollowing several years of high food prices, concertedpolicy efforts to intensify fertilizer and hybrid seed use,and increased public and private investment in agriculture,how low is modern input use in Africa really? This paperrevisits Africa's agricultural input landscape,exploiting the unique, recently collected, nationallyrepresentative, agriculturally intensive, and cross-countrycomparable Living Standard Measurement Study-IntegratedSurveys on Agriculture covering six countries in the region(Ethiopia, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda).The study uses data from more than 22,000 households and62,000 plots to investigate a range of commonly heldconceptions about modern input use in Africa, distilling themost striking and important findings into 10 key takeawaydescriptive results.