Using the sustainable livelihoods framework to evaluate the impact of a farmer-to-farmer video on... more Using the sustainable livelihoods framework to evaluate the impact of a farmer-to-farmer video on the improved rice parboiling technology, women in Benin rated financial, social, human, natural and physical capital stocks for the baseline year (2006) and the impact year (2009) on a 0–5 scale. Women who had watched the video and those who had not, but who lived in the same villages, perceived a significant improvement in four out of five livelihood capitals while processors in control villages did not perceive any significant change. Apart from testing the sustainable livelihoods conceptual framework as a participatory impact assessment tool for video-mediated rural learning, this study shows how farmer-to-farmer training videos helped to improve multiple livelihood assets.Peer reviewe
Lorsque l’offre excède la demande, le prix baisse et ne cesse de baisser tant que des producteurs... more Lorsque l’offre excède la demande, le prix baisse et ne cesse de baisser tant que des producteurs continuent à produire des excédents. La stabilité des prix est encore moins évidente dès lors que les échanges internationaux des produits agricoles ne portent que sur une proportion relativement faible de la production et qu’ils sont tributaires des excédents de quelques pays riches qui subventionnent leurs agriculteurs.
La filière représente un domaine d'investigation adapté aux recherches en économie agro-alime... more La filière représente un domaine d'investigation adapté aux recherches en économie agro-alimentaire. Elle permet notamment une approche intégrée des problèmes liés au développement des productions agricoles dans les pays du Tiers-Monde. L'auteur de cet article, après avoir précisé les concepts en relation avec la notion de filière d'un point de vue théorique (filière produit et filière demande finale), présente les caractéristiques générales des filières agroalimentaires dans les pays en développement et propose une méthode pour apprécier la compétitivité desdites filières de production. Summary The subsector represents a meaningful and manageable division specially adapted to comprehensive lf7Vestigationon agro-industrial systems. The food subsector studies permits an integrated approach of problems linked with production development in Third World countries. The author of thls paper, after having determined the concepts in relation with the subsector from theoretical p...
Situe au nord-ouest du Benin, le departement de l’Atacora a une superficie de 20 499 km2 (soit 18... more Situe au nord-ouest du Benin, le departement de l’Atacora a une superficie de 20 499 km2 (soit 18% du territoire national) pour une population totale de 549 417 habitants (RGPH3 et estimee en 2007 a 659 341 habitants, soit 8% de la population du Benin) repartie dans 9 communes regroupant 47 arrondissements et 385 villages et quartiers de ville. Il est limite au Nord par la Republique du Burkina Faso, au Sud par le departement de la Donga, a l'Est par les departements de l'Alibori et du Borgou et a l'Ouest par la Republique du Togo. L’Atacora, departement par excellence de la diversite ethnique du Benin, regroupe plusieurs groupes socio-culturels et linguistiques dont les plus importants sont les Bariba 20%, les Berba 14%, les Waama 14%, les Besorabe 11%, les Natimba 10%, les Peulhs 10% et les Otamari 5%. Avec un climat soudanien fait d’une saison pluvieuse s’etalant sur 6 mois, la principale activite est l’agriculture qui emploie au moins 74% des actifs (RGPH3 en 2002) a...
Impact of non-agricultural activities on food security in mountainous South Kivu. According to th... more Impact of non-agricultural activities on food security in mountainous South Kivu. According to the results of the participatory poverty analysis (28), the current economic and financial crisis, which is now extending to all underdeveloped and developing countries, is severely affecting the economy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and, more specifically, rural households in South Kivu province, which are affected by unprecedented recurring crises that plunge them into severe and unsustainable poverty. Paradoxically, these farmers, whose role is to provide healthy and abundant food to the Congolese population, are among the least well-fed. The objective of this study is to diagnose the impact of non-agricultural activity on household food security in mountainous South Kivu in the Luhwindja chieftaincy community. The results revealed that 37% of the rural households considered derive part of their income from non-agricultural activities, which improves their food security, while...
During the last decade, the Niger’s population has been affected by the food crisis (2001, 2004-2... more During the last decade, the Niger’s population has been affected by the food crisis (2001, 2004-2005, 2008, 2010-2011). Each year, she is subjected to many structural and temporary shocks. The structural shocks are caused by the chronicle difficulties (income) while the temporary shocks are tied at the "natural" disasters such as the hydrometeorological disasters, demographic crisis. The risk that the people fall in a state of food insecurity because of structural and temporary shocks is characterized by food vulnerability. The food vulnerability is defined as “the analysis of coping strategies and reactions faced with the structural or/and temporary shocks, if the coping strategies are not effectives, the people have in a temporary or structural food vulnerability” (Andres L. and Lebailly Ph., 2011). The target of this paper is to demonstrate the diversity of coping strategies in the different departments of Niger. The database is created as from an annual survey realized...
This study investigated the determinants of financial inclusion for small scale farmers by focusi... more This study investigated the determinants of financial inclusion for small scale farmers by focusing on the access to formal and informal agricultural credits in the Southern Province of Rwanda. Data were collected from 310 farmers from Huye and Nyamagabe districts through an open-ended structured questionnaire and analysed using the binary logistic regression method. The major findings, on one hand, showed that among the requested and approved agricultural loans, 87.2% and 12.7% were from informal and formal financial institutions respectively. Among those who accessed agricultural credits, 59.7% were from Huye and 40.3% from Nyamagabe. On the other hand, it was revealed that the household characteristics and the community attributes are the most important determinants. Those household characteristics include household income and expenditure, Ubudehe socio-economic category of the household, off-farm employment and the size of the land owned by the household whereas community attrib...
1. Doctorant a l’universite de Liege/Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, MC en economie et sociologie rurales... more 1. Doctorant a l’universite de Liege/Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, MC en economie et sociologie rurales, Chef de travaux a l’universite de Kinshasa. E-mail : mutebadam@yahoo.fr 2. Professeur Associe et chef de Departement d’Economie agricole, faculte des sciences agronomiques, Universite de Kinshasa. E-mail : rntoto@yahoo.com 3. Professeur ordinaire et Responsable de l’Unite et Developpement Rural a l’Universite de Liege/ Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech. E-mail : philippe.lebailly@ulg.ac.be
In Europe and all western countries, the food model has changed considerably during the twentieth... more In Europe and all western countries, the food model has changed considerably during the twentieth century. It has been broadly characterized by a race for unprecedented productivity to which agronomists have made outstanding contributions. The corollary was the sharp rise of upstream and downstream production that have acquired a much higher economic weight in the chain. There is also a high proportion of specialized farms and the food consumption side is dominated by mass-produced, standardized, and especially seasonally non adjusted, delocalized and de-territorialized products inducing a break of perceptible links between the consumer and the producer.
Traditionally, small farmers sell their crops or/and animals at the farm gate to intermediaries, ... more Traditionally, small farmers sell their crops or/and animals at the farm gate to intermediaries, often at a low price. However, innovations in marketing arrangements can transform market relations in favour of smallholders, and producer organizations are well-positioned to take advantage of these new approaches. Factor analysis was applied on twelve components of output markets in Haiduong province. The results show that there are patterns that are observable in terms of access and use of output market by fish farmers. The most commonly used output markets by aquaculture farmers are local fresh output market, the best retail produce markets as well as the wholesale fresh fish markets. The study reveals that farmers tend to sell their fish to the wholesale fresh fish markets. The best retail output markets also provide an important market outlet for produce by aquaculture farmers. Improving road conditions and transport services in the projected regions of aquaculture production as w...
Using the sustainable livelihoods framework to evaluate the impact of a farmer-to-farmer video on... more Using the sustainable livelihoods framework to evaluate the impact of a farmer-to-farmer video on the improved rice parboiling technology, women in Benin rated financial, social, human, natural and physical capital stocks for the baseline year (2006) and the impact year (2009) on a 0–5 scale. Women who had watched the video and those who had not, but who lived in the same villages, perceived a significant improvement in four out of five livelihood capitals while processors in control villages did not perceive any significant change. Apart from testing the sustainable livelihoods conceptual framework as a participatory impact assessment tool for video-mediated rural learning, this study shows how farmer-to-farmer training videos helped to improve multiple livelihood assets.Peer reviewe
Lorsque l’offre excède la demande, le prix baisse et ne cesse de baisser tant que des producteurs... more Lorsque l’offre excède la demande, le prix baisse et ne cesse de baisser tant que des producteurs continuent à produire des excédents. La stabilité des prix est encore moins évidente dès lors que les échanges internationaux des produits agricoles ne portent que sur une proportion relativement faible de la production et qu’ils sont tributaires des excédents de quelques pays riches qui subventionnent leurs agriculteurs.
La filière représente un domaine d'investigation adapté aux recherches en économie agro-alime... more La filière représente un domaine d'investigation adapté aux recherches en économie agro-alimentaire. Elle permet notamment une approche intégrée des problèmes liés au développement des productions agricoles dans les pays du Tiers-Monde. L'auteur de cet article, après avoir précisé les concepts en relation avec la notion de filière d'un point de vue théorique (filière produit et filière demande finale), présente les caractéristiques générales des filières agroalimentaires dans les pays en développement et propose une méthode pour apprécier la compétitivité desdites filières de production. Summary The subsector represents a meaningful and manageable division specially adapted to comprehensive lf7Vestigationon agro-industrial systems. The food subsector studies permits an integrated approach of problems linked with production development in Third World countries. The author of thls paper, after having determined the concepts in relation with the subsector from theoretical p...
Situe au nord-ouest du Benin, le departement de l’Atacora a une superficie de 20 499 km2 (soit 18... more Situe au nord-ouest du Benin, le departement de l’Atacora a une superficie de 20 499 km2 (soit 18% du territoire national) pour une population totale de 549 417 habitants (RGPH3 et estimee en 2007 a 659 341 habitants, soit 8% de la population du Benin) repartie dans 9 communes regroupant 47 arrondissements et 385 villages et quartiers de ville. Il est limite au Nord par la Republique du Burkina Faso, au Sud par le departement de la Donga, a l'Est par les departements de l'Alibori et du Borgou et a l'Ouest par la Republique du Togo. L’Atacora, departement par excellence de la diversite ethnique du Benin, regroupe plusieurs groupes socio-culturels et linguistiques dont les plus importants sont les Bariba 20%, les Berba 14%, les Waama 14%, les Besorabe 11%, les Natimba 10%, les Peulhs 10% et les Otamari 5%. Avec un climat soudanien fait d’une saison pluvieuse s’etalant sur 6 mois, la principale activite est l’agriculture qui emploie au moins 74% des actifs (RGPH3 en 2002) a...
Impact of non-agricultural activities on food security in mountainous South Kivu. According to th... more Impact of non-agricultural activities on food security in mountainous South Kivu. According to the results of the participatory poverty analysis (28), the current economic and financial crisis, which is now extending to all underdeveloped and developing countries, is severely affecting the economy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and, more specifically, rural households in South Kivu province, which are affected by unprecedented recurring crises that plunge them into severe and unsustainable poverty. Paradoxically, these farmers, whose role is to provide healthy and abundant food to the Congolese population, are among the least well-fed. The objective of this study is to diagnose the impact of non-agricultural activity on household food security in mountainous South Kivu in the Luhwindja chieftaincy community. The results revealed that 37% of the rural households considered derive part of their income from non-agricultural activities, which improves their food security, while...
During the last decade, the Niger’s population has been affected by the food crisis (2001, 2004-2... more During the last decade, the Niger’s population has been affected by the food crisis (2001, 2004-2005, 2008, 2010-2011). Each year, she is subjected to many structural and temporary shocks. The structural shocks are caused by the chronicle difficulties (income) while the temporary shocks are tied at the "natural" disasters such as the hydrometeorological disasters, demographic crisis. The risk that the people fall in a state of food insecurity because of structural and temporary shocks is characterized by food vulnerability. The food vulnerability is defined as “the analysis of coping strategies and reactions faced with the structural or/and temporary shocks, if the coping strategies are not effectives, the people have in a temporary or structural food vulnerability” (Andres L. and Lebailly Ph., 2011). The target of this paper is to demonstrate the diversity of coping strategies in the different departments of Niger. The database is created as from an annual survey realized...
This study investigated the determinants of financial inclusion for small scale farmers by focusi... more This study investigated the determinants of financial inclusion for small scale farmers by focusing on the access to formal and informal agricultural credits in the Southern Province of Rwanda. Data were collected from 310 farmers from Huye and Nyamagabe districts through an open-ended structured questionnaire and analysed using the binary logistic regression method. The major findings, on one hand, showed that among the requested and approved agricultural loans, 87.2% and 12.7% were from informal and formal financial institutions respectively. Among those who accessed agricultural credits, 59.7% were from Huye and 40.3% from Nyamagabe. On the other hand, it was revealed that the household characteristics and the community attributes are the most important determinants. Those household characteristics include household income and expenditure, Ubudehe socio-economic category of the household, off-farm employment and the size of the land owned by the household whereas community attrib...
1. Doctorant a l’universite de Liege/Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, MC en economie et sociologie rurales... more 1. Doctorant a l’universite de Liege/Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, MC en economie et sociologie rurales, Chef de travaux a l’universite de Kinshasa. E-mail : mutebadam@yahoo.fr 2. Professeur Associe et chef de Departement d’Economie agricole, faculte des sciences agronomiques, Universite de Kinshasa. E-mail : rntoto@yahoo.com 3. Professeur ordinaire et Responsable de l’Unite et Developpement Rural a l’Universite de Liege/ Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech. E-mail : philippe.lebailly@ulg.ac.be
In Europe and all western countries, the food model has changed considerably during the twentieth... more In Europe and all western countries, the food model has changed considerably during the twentieth century. It has been broadly characterized by a race for unprecedented productivity to which agronomists have made outstanding contributions. The corollary was the sharp rise of upstream and downstream production that have acquired a much higher economic weight in the chain. There is also a high proportion of specialized farms and the food consumption side is dominated by mass-produced, standardized, and especially seasonally non adjusted, delocalized and de-territorialized products inducing a break of perceptible links between the consumer and the producer.
Traditionally, small farmers sell their crops or/and animals at the farm gate to intermediaries, ... more Traditionally, small farmers sell their crops or/and animals at the farm gate to intermediaries, often at a low price. However, innovations in marketing arrangements can transform market relations in favour of smallholders, and producer organizations are well-positioned to take advantage of these new approaches. Factor analysis was applied on twelve components of output markets in Haiduong province. The results show that there are patterns that are observable in terms of access and use of output market by fish farmers. The most commonly used output markets by aquaculture farmers are local fresh output market, the best retail produce markets as well as the wholesale fresh fish markets. The study reveals that farmers tend to sell their fish to the wholesale fresh fish markets. The best retail output markets also provide an important market outlet for produce by aquaculture farmers. Improving road conditions and transport services in the projected regions of aquaculture production as w...
; Tél: (00229) 95 84 02 04 REMERCIEMENTS Les auteurs tiennent à exprimer leur gratitude à la Coop... more ; Tél: (00229) 95 84 02 04 REMERCIEMENTS Les auteurs tiennent à exprimer leur gratitude à la Coopération Technique Belge (CTB) pour avoir financé cette recherche par l'octroi de la bourse de doctorat mixte. RÉSUMÉ La population pastorale et agro-pastorale du Bénin détient presque la totalité du cheptel bovin national. Le lait constitue le produit le plus fréquent issu de l'élevage bovin. Une enquête a été menée dans la commune de Kalalé au sein de 16 ménages peuls afin de comprendre l'organisation de ces ménages dans la gestion du lait. Il ressort que l'organisation autour du capital lait est genre sensible: l'homme aussi bien que la femme, dans leurs rôles respectifs, contribuent à assurer la pérennité du capital bétail. Le lait est géré de façon à privilégier la consommation du ménage et à assurer la reproduction du troupeau. La rémunération du travail fournit ainsi que l'équité dans la distribution des richesses au sein du ménage peul octroi aux femmes qui sont dans le troupeau plus de bénéfices issues du lait provenant du troupeau familial. La disponibilité des produits laitiers dépend de la saison et du milieu. Le lait prévu pour la consommation humaine est gérée de sorte à avoir, une utilisation optimale du lait et de la viande, afin de combler les besoins actuels des membres du ménage, d'assurer la reproduction des biens du ménage, avant d'alimenter le marché de produits laitiers. ABSTRACT Pastoral and agro pastoral population of Benin holds almost all the national cattle herd. Milk is the most commonly product derived from cattle and its sale provides cash income to Fulani woman. A survey was conducted in Kalalé district within sixteen Fulani households to understand their milk management's organization. The organization around milk capital is gender sensitive. Man as well as woman, in their respective roles, help to ensure sustainability of livestock capital. Milk is managed to favor household consumption and ensure the herd's reproduction. Labor compensation and equity in wealth distribution within Fulani household granted to women who are in the herd more profits from milk of the family herd. Dairy products availability depends on the season and the area. The expected milk for human consumption is
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