Is Agricultural Intensification Profitable for Mozambican Smallholders? An Appraisal of the Inputs Subsector and the 1996/97 DNER/SG2000 Program

Julie A. Howard, José Jaime Jeje, David Tschirley (), Paul Strasberg, Eric Winthrop Crawford () and Michael T. Weber ()
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Julie A. Howard: Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University

No 38, International Development Policy Syntheses from Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University

Abstract: This report summarizes an appraisal of input use and marketing in Mozambique focusing on the following research questions: (1) what are current smallholder yields for major commodities and what is the potential for increasing yields by using improved technologies? (2) to what extent are improved technologies already being used by smallholders, and are they profitable? (3) how are improved seeds, fertilizer and pesticides produced and distributed? and (4) what are the key constraints to and opportunities for increasing the use of improved technologies by smallholders?

Keywords: food security; food policy; improved technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: Written 1998

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