Exploring social indicators in smallholder food systems: modeling children's educational outcomes on crop-livestock family farms in Madagascar
Promoting smallholders' sustainable development in Africa means addressing agronomic and economic factors but also highly relevant social influences shaping farmers' production and affecting household well-being. Holistic, integrated analyses can help to meet this need, informing more effective policies and interventions for smallholder farming systems. The authors apply a transdisciplinary, quantitative approach to analyzing social impacts in the smallholder context, using milk-producing crop-livestock family farms in central Madagascar as a test case. First, stochastic frontier analysis is leveraged to confirm education as a social indicator linked to production efficiency. Then, linear regression is used for exploratory modeling of children's educational outcomes. Findings from the Malagasy case emphasize the influence of rural infrastructure, parental education, chronic poverty, family planning, and crop-livestock diversification on children's educational outcomes among one region's farming households. Taken together, results suggest that Madagascar's policymakers should consider comprehensive territorial planning for simultaneously promoting agricultural development and human well-being. This study illustrates how a transdisciplinary approach to social impacts analysis can integrate agronomic, economic, and social dynamics and help anticipate potential outcomes in support of smallholders' sustainable development.
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dig-cirad-fr-6092192024-08-02T15:01:44Z http://agritrop.cirad.fr/609219/ http://agritrop.cirad.fr/609219/ Exploring social indicators in smallholder food systems: modeling children's educational outcomes on crop-livestock family farms in Madagascar. Thom Amy E., Bélières Jean-François, Conradie Beatrice, Salgado Paulo, Vigne Mathieu, Fangueiro David. 2024. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 8:1356985, 17 p.https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2024.1356985 <https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2024.1356985> Exploring social indicators in smallholder food systems: modeling children's educational outcomes on crop-livestock family farms in Madagascar Thom, Amy E. Bélières, Jean-François Conradie, Beatrice Salgado, Paulo Vigne, Mathieu Fangueiro, David eng 2024 Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems E90 - Structure agraire E51 - Population rurale E80 - Économie familiale et artisanale exploitation agricole familiale agriculture familiale développement durable diversification enfant agroécologie gestion des ressources naturelles enquête sur les exploitations agricoles petite exploitation agricole petit agriculteur système de production http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_2787 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_1422957329186 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_35332 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_2344 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_1547 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_92381 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_9000115 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_28693 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7113 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_14343 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_a175b273 Madagascar http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_4510 Promoting smallholders' sustainable development in Africa means addressing agronomic and economic factors but also highly relevant social influences shaping farmers' production and affecting household well-being. Holistic, integrated analyses can help to meet this need, informing more effective policies and interventions for smallholder farming systems. The authors apply a transdisciplinary, quantitative approach to analyzing social impacts in the smallholder context, using milk-producing crop-livestock family farms in central Madagascar as a test case. First, stochastic frontier analysis is leveraged to confirm education as a social indicator linked to production efficiency. Then, linear regression is used for exploratory modeling of children's educational outcomes. Findings from the Malagasy case emphasize the influence of rural infrastructure, parental education, chronic poverty, family planning, and crop-livestock diversification on children's educational outcomes among one region's farming households. Taken together, results suggest that Madagascar's policymakers should consider comprehensive territorial planning for simultaneously promoting agricultural development and human well-being. This study illustrates how a transdisciplinary approach to social impacts analysis can integrate agronomic, economic, and social dynamics and help anticipate potential outcomes in support of smallholders' sustainable development. article info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal Article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://agritrop.cirad.fr/609219/1/Amy%20E%20Thom%20et%20al%202024.pdf text cc_by info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2024.1356985 10.3389/fsufs.2024.1356985 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.3389/fsufs.2024.1356985 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/purl/https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2024.1356985 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/////(PRT) Linking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food Research Center/ |
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Promoting smallholders' sustainable development in Africa means addressing agronomic and economic factors but also highly relevant social influences shaping farmers' production and affecting household well-being. Holistic, integrated analyses can help to meet this need, informing more effective policies and interventions for smallholder farming systems. The authors apply a transdisciplinary, quantitative approach to analyzing social impacts in the smallholder context, using milk-producing crop-livestock family farms in central Madagascar as a test case. First, stochastic frontier analysis is leveraged to confirm education as a social indicator linked to production efficiency. Then, linear regression is used for exploratory modeling of children's educational outcomes. Findings from the Malagasy case emphasize the influence of rural infrastructure, parental education, chronic poverty, family planning, and crop-livestock diversification on children's educational outcomes among one region's farming households. Taken together, results suggest that Madagascar's policymakers should consider comprehensive territorial planning for simultaneously promoting agricultural development and human well-being. This study illustrates how a transdisciplinary approach to social impacts analysis can integrate agronomic, economic, and social dynamics and help anticipate potential outcomes in support of smallholders' sustainable development. |
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E90 - Structure agraire E51 - Population rurale E80 - Économie familiale et artisanale exploitation agricole familiale agriculture familiale développement durable diversification enfant agroécologie gestion des ressources naturelles enquête sur les exploitations agricoles petite exploitation agricole petit agriculteur système de production http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_2787 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_1422957329186 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_35332 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_2344 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_1547 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_92381 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_9000115 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_28693 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7113 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_14343 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_a175b273 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_4510 |
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Thom, Amy E. Bélières, Jean-François Conradie, Beatrice Salgado, Paulo Vigne, Mathieu Fangueiro, David |
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Thom, Amy E. Bélières, Jean-François Conradie, Beatrice Salgado, Paulo Vigne, Mathieu Fangueiro, David |
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Exploring social indicators in smallholder food systems: modeling children's educational outcomes on crop-livestock family farms in Madagascar |
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Exploring social indicators in smallholder food systems: modeling children's educational outcomes on crop-livestock family farms in Madagascar |
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Exploring social indicators in smallholder food systems: modeling children's educational outcomes on crop-livestock family farms in Madagascar |
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Exploring social indicators in smallholder food systems: modeling children's educational outcomes on crop-livestock family farms in Madagascar |
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Exploring social indicators in smallholder food systems: modeling children's educational outcomes on crop-livestock family farms in Madagascar |
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exploring social indicators in smallholder food systems: modeling children's educational outcomes on crop-livestock family farms in madagascar |
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