Cost-Benefit Analysis of Prioritized Climate-Smart Agricultural Practices Among Smallholder Farmers: Evidence from Selected Value Chains Across Sub-Saharan Africa

Abstract Most irrigated lands of Central Asia suffer from land degradation, and unsustainable agricultural practices are one of the factors contributing to land degradation. Conservation agriculture (CA) is seen as a way to mitigate land degradation and rationalize resource use. The aim of this article is to investigate the efficiency of CA implementation in the Syrdarya province of Uzbekistan, Central Asia by carrying out a cost-benefit analysis (CBA). The CBA was conducted for a hypothetical situation where the farm decides to switch from conventional agriculture to CA. Unlike the previous studies, this study investigates complete crop rotation cycle in the long-term period. The study outcomes suggest that investment in CA implementation results in positive incremental benefit if the advantages of CA are monetized.

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A regional approach to optimizing the location of rural handpumps

Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for Development ◽

10.2166/washdev.2015.128 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 5 (3) ◽

pp. 493-501 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Omar S. Hopkins

Keyword(s):

Cost Benefit Analysis ◽

Cost Benefit ◽

Optimal Number ◽

Point Sources ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

Proposed Model ◽

Rural Water ◽

Time Savings ◽

Sub Saharan

Many rural water supply projects in sub-Saharan Africa are based on the installation of public handpumps. One of the key benefits of these projects is distance and time savings. Surprisingly, references to rural water planning rarely provide systematic approaches to optimizing distance-related benefits. This paper develops a conceptual model to identify the number and location of point sources that maximizes benefits to consumers, thereby serving as an aid to decision makers in identifying good alternatives. The proposed model is based on willingness to pay, a location model to identify optimal locations of sources, and a cost–benefit analysis. The model shows that as the number of sources increases, the distance between households and sources decreases but the user fee must increase to generate the revenue required to maintain them. Higher fees will dissuade households from using the point sources and hence reduce the aggregate distance savings that accrue. This suggests that there is an optimal number and location of point sources.

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A cost-benefit framework for evaluating conditional cash-transfer programs

Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis ◽

10.1515/jbca-2012-0014 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 159-180 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Robert J. Brent

Keyword(s):

Cost Benefit Analysis ◽

Cost Benefit ◽

Conditional Cash Transfer ◽

Cash Transfer ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

Vulnerable Children ◽

Orphans And Vulnerable Children ◽

Transfer Programs ◽

Sub Saharan ◽

Comprehensive Framework

Following the prototype of Mexico’s Progresa program, a number of countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have initiated conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs. More recently, countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have followed suit. However, no comprehensive framework to carry out a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) exists. This paper presents such a CBA framework for CCTs which enables design features such as targeting and conditionality to be separately evaluated. The framework is applied to an evaluation of a CCT program for orphans and vulnerable children in Kenya. The role of conditionality in SSA and the need for distribution weights is discussed.

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Potential impact of groundnut production technology on welfare of smallholder farmers in Ghana

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0260877 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. e0260877

Author(s):

Bekele Hundie Kotu ◽

Abdul Rahman Nurudeen ◽

Francis Muthoni ◽

Irmgard Hoeschle-Zeledon ◽

Fred Kizito

Keyword(s):

Plant Density ◽

Cost Benefit Analysis ◽

Smallholder Farmers ◽

Cost Benefit ◽

Planting Density ◽

Northern Ghana ◽

Cost Ratio ◽

Benefit Analysis ◽

Adoption Rate ◽

Potential Impact

This study was conducted to assess the potential impact of applying a new groundnut planting density on welfare of smallholder farmers in northern Ghana. We used data from on-farm experiments, focus group discussions, and a household survey. We followed three steps in our analysis. First, we conducted cost-benefit analysis in which we showed the economic advantage of the new technology over the farmers’ practice. Second, we predicted adoption rates along timeline using the Adoption and Diffusion Outcome Prediction Tool (ADOPT). Third, using the results of the first and the second steps, we estimated the potential impact of the technology on poverty at household level using a combination of methods such as economic surplus model and econometric model. The cost-benefit analysis shows that increasing plant density increases farmers’ financial returns i.e., the benefit-cost-ratio increases from 1.05 under farmers’ practice to 1.87 under the best plant density option, which is 22 plants/sqm. The adoption prediction analysis shows that the maximum adoption rate for the best practice will be 62% which will take about nine years to reach. At the maximum adoption rate the incidence of extreme poverty will be reduced by about 3.6% if farmers have access to the international groundnut market and by about 2% if they do not have. The intervention will also reduce poverty gap and poverty severity. The results suggest that policy actions which can improve farmers’ access to the international market will enhance farmers’ welfare more than the situation in which farmers have access to domestic markets only. Furthermore, promoting a more integrated groundnut value-chain can broaden the demand base of the produce resulting in higher and sustainable impact of the technology on the welfare of groundnut producers and beyond.

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An Economic Analysis of Traditional Agriculture Products: The Case of Chicken in Thua Thien Hue Province, Vietnam

Asian Social Science ◽

10.5539/ass.v15n10p149 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 15 (10) ◽

pp. 149

Author(s):

Long Hoang Thanh ◽

Thi Minh Hop Ho ◽

Philippe Burny ◽

Thomas Dogot ◽

Nguyen Dang Hao ◽

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Keyword(s):

Economic Performance ◽

Cost Benefit Analysis ◽

Smallholder Farmers ◽

Cost Benefit ◽

Traditional Agriculture ◽

Benefit Analysis ◽

Agriculture Products ◽

The Cost ◽

Production Benefit ◽

Lower Production

Agriculture and traditional agriculture products plays a significant role in the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in developing countries, including Vietnam. Cost-benefit Analysis and a mixed methodology were applied to evaluate the economic performance of traditional chicken production in Thua Thien Hue province, Vietnam by region and scale. The data were drawn respectively from 64 sample households in Huong Thuy and Nam Dong district in 2017. The Cost-benefit analysis shows that Huong Thuy tends to have a lower production cost and thus a higher production benefit as compared to those of Nam Dong district. This study also indicates evidence of the importance of veterinary, mortality rate, scale of production and region on the performance of chicken farmer in the province.

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