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2021-04-10Zeitschriftenartikel DOI: 10.18452/23016
Can Enhancing Efficiency Promote the Economic Viability of Smallholder Farmers? A Case of Sierra Leone
dc.contributor.authorSaravia-Matus, Silvia
dc.contributor.authorAmjath-Babu, T.S
dc.contributor.authorAravindakshan, Sreejith
dc.contributor.authorSieber, Stefan
dc.contributor.authorSaravia, Jimmy A.
dc.contributor.authorGomez y Paloma, Sergio
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-25T08:59:24Z
dc.date.available2021-06-25T08:59:24Z
dc.date.issued2021-04-10none
dc.date.updated2021-05-03T15:47:19Z
dc.identifier.urihttp://edoc.hu-berlin.de/18452/23694
dc.description.abstractBy developing meta-frontier efficiency and structural equation models, the paper examines whether farm economic viability is positively associated with technical efficiency in a highly food insecure context, such as that of rural Sierra Leone. The findings show that technical efficiency can be a sufficient but not necessary condition in determining economic viability of smallholder farming. It is possible to breach reproductive thresholds at the cost of reduced technical efficiency, when the crop diversification strategy of smallholders includes market-oriented high-value crops. This calls for a dual policy approach that addresses farmers’ internal needs for self-consumption (increasing efficiency of food crop production) while encouraging market-oriented cash crop production (diversification assisted through the reduction of associated transaction costs and the establishment of accessible commercialization channels of export related crops and/or high-value crops). The work also calls out for a move-up or move-out strategy for small holders to create viable farming systems in developing world.eng
dc.language.isoengnone
dc.publisherHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin
dc.rights(CC BY 4.0) Attribution 4.0 Internationalger
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjecteconomic viabilityeng
dc.subjecttechnical efficiencyeng
dc.subjectsmallholder farmerseng
dc.subjectSierra Leoneeng
dc.subject.ddc333.7 Natürliche Resourcen, Energie und Umweltnone
dc.subject.ddc690 Bau von Gebäudennone
dc.titleCan Enhancing Efficiency Promote the Economic Viability of Smallholder Farmers? A Case of Sierra Leonenone
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/23694-9
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18452/23016
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionnone
local.edoc.pages17none
local.edoc.type-nameZeitschriftenartikel
local.edoc.container-typeperiodical
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dc.description.versionPeer Reviewednone
dc.identifier.eissn2071-1050
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi10.3390/su13084235none
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitleSustainabilitynone
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume13none
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.issue8none
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.articlenumber4235none
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublishernameMDPInone
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplaceBaselnone
bua.import.affiliationSaravia-Matus, Silvia; Natural Resources Division, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN ECLAC), Vitacura, 3477 Santiago, Chilenone
bua.import.affiliationAmjath-Babu, T. S.; International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Dhaka 1212, Bangladeshnone
bua.import.affiliationAravindakshan, Sreejith; International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh; Farming Systems Ecology, Wageningen University and Research (WUR), 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlandsnone
bua.import.affiliationSieber, Stefan; Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), 15374 Muencheberg, Germany; Thaer-Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germanynone
bua.import.affiliationSaravia, Jimmy A.; Center for Research in Economics and Finance (CIEF) and Grupo de Investigación en Banca y Finanzas, School of Economics and Finance, Universidad EAFIT, 050022 Medellín, Colombianone
bua.import.affiliationGomez y Paloma, Sergio; Joint Research Center, European Commission, 41092 Seville, Spainnone
bua.departmentLebenswissenschaftliche Fakultätnone

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