Improving resilience to nutritional shocks

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dc.creatorAlderman, Harold
dc.creatorWalker, Susan P.
dc.date2014
dc.date2024-08-01T02:49:35Z
dc.date2024-08-01T02:49:35Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:06:13Z
dc.descriptionWe add to an emerging body of literature on input subsidies in Africa south of the Sahara. Our analysis focuses on demand for seed, characterising smallholders with a high predicted demand for hybrid seed who were not reached by the subsidy programme. We use cross‐sectional data from the 2010 agricultural season and an instrumented control function approach to test the hypothesis that the subsidy on hybrid maize seed in Zambia is selectively biased. Consistent with other literature, we find that the subsidy is a recursive determinant of seed demand, but in 2010, its recipients had more land, more assets, and lower poverty rates. Findings illustrate the social costs of the programme as currently designed and highlight the need to build alternative supply channels if poorer maize growers are to grow hybrid seed.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/149594
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/94622
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/9780896296787
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceFan, Shenggen; Pandya-Lorch, Rajul; Yosef, Sivan; Fritschel, Heidi and Zseleczky, Laura. 2014. In Resilience for food and nutrition security. Eds. Fan, Shenggen; Pandya-Lorch, Rajul and Yosef, Sivan. Chapter 12. Pp. 195-206. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149594
dc.subjecteconomic shock
dc.subjectnutrition security
dc.subjectenvironmental factors
dc.subjectshock
dc.subjecteconomic development
dc.subjectmalnutrition
dc.subjectfood security
dc.subjectfood prices
dc.subjectresilience
dc.titleImproving resilience to nutritional shocks
dc.typeBook Chapter

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