The Farmer-Input Subsidy Program (FISP) Does not Service the Poor

Mercia Andrews ()
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Development, 2021, vol. 64, issue 3, 288-291

Abstract: Abstract This article focuses on the Farmer Input Subsidy Program (FISP) in Southern Africa. The FISPs are part of agricultural support by governments providing input subsidies to small-scale farmers from public resources. FISPs are intended to reduce the production costs of small-scale farmers. Rural women members of the Rural Women’s Assembly (RWA) in Southern Africa argue that the FISP is captured by the global agro-industry and that the FISP, far from providing real support to farmers, advances a green-revolution agenda and has become a tool of the political elites and MNCs.

Keywords: Agriculture subsidies; Agro-ecological production agriculture; Rural women; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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