Farmer impatience and grain storage for the Hunger Season
In African countries, food security greatly depends on farmers' propensity to store grain until the lean season. Using original data collected from 1,500 farmers in Burkina Faso in 2013, we show that individual risk and time preferences play a central role in grain storage decisions. We use a sample selection model as well as a structural estimation approach and find that both lead to very similar results. Specifically, we find that a one-standard-deviation increase in the discount rate (resp. risk aversion) results in a large decrease (resp. increase) in grain storage of about 45% (resp. 25%). We simulate a grain price stabilisation policy and show that half of farmers in our sample would benefit from such a policy.
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dig-cirad-fr-5751372022-10-19T06:12:32Z http://agritrop.cirad.fr/575137/ http://agritrop.cirad.fr/575137/ Farmer impatience and grain storage for the Hunger Season. Le Cotty Tristan, Maître d'Hôtel Elodie, Soubeyran Raphaël, Subervie Julie. 2014. Montpellier : Universite Montpellier 1, 52 p. (Document de recherche UMR LAMETA, 2014-07) http://www.lameta.univ-montp1.fr/Documents/DR2014-07bis.pdf <http://www.lameta.univ-montp1.fr/Documents/DR2014-07bis.pdf> Researchers Farmer impatience and grain storage for the Hunger Season Le Cotty, Tristan Maître d'Hôtel, Elodie Soubeyran, Raphaël Subervie, Julie eng 2014 Universite Montpellier 1 J11 - Manutention, transport, stockage et conservation des produits d'origine végétale E80 - Économie familiale et artisanale U10 - Informatique, mathématiques et statistiques In African countries, food security greatly depends on farmers' propensity to store grain until the lean season. Using original data collected from 1,500 farmers in Burkina Faso in 2013, we show that individual risk and time preferences play a central role in grain storage decisions. We use a sample selection model as well as a structural estimation approach and find that both lead to very similar results. Specifically, we find that a one-standard-deviation increase in the discount rate (resp. risk aversion) results in a large decrease (resp. increase) in grain storage of about 45% (resp. 25%). We simulate a grain price stabilisation policy and show that half of farmers in our sample would benefit from such a policy. monograph info:eu-repo/semantics/report Report info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://agritrop.cirad.fr/575137/1/ID575137.pdf text Cirad license info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess https://agritrop.cirad.fr/mention_legale.html http://www.lameta.univ-montp1.fr/Documents/DR2014-07bis.pdf info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/purl/http://www.lameta.univ-montp1.fr/Documents/DR2014-07bis.pdf info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/purl/http://www.lameta.univ-montp1.fr/spip.php?article8 |
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In African countries, food security greatly depends on farmers' propensity to store grain until the lean season. Using original data collected from 1,500 farmers in Burkina Faso in 2013, we show that individual risk and time preferences play a central role in grain storage decisions. We use a sample selection model as well as a structural estimation approach and find that both lead to very similar results. Specifically, we find that a one-standard-deviation increase in the discount rate (resp. risk aversion) results in a large decrease (resp. increase) in grain storage of about 45% (resp. 25%). We simulate a grain price stabilisation policy and show that half of farmers in our sample would benefit from such a policy. |
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