The dis-incentive effects of food aid and agricultural policies on local land allocation in developing countries: The case of Malawi

Stanley Sharaunga and Edilegnaw Wale

Development Southern Africa, 2013, vol. 30, issue 4-5, 491-507

Abstract: Food aid and other agricultural policies can create incentives/disincentives in local agricultural production. This paper provides empirical evidence on the disincentive effects of both food aid and some agricultural policies in Malawi. In contrast to previous studies, this paper analyses the impact of food aid on the proportion of land allocated to cereal crops and the interplay of both food aid and other agricultural policies in creating disincentive effects. Data were analysed using the logit transformation regression. It was found that, in addition to the disincentive effects of food aid, agricultural policies including price controls and sustained reliance on imported cereals were also undermining incentives to sustain local agricultural production. Therefore, both food aid and agricultural price policies need to be aligned to farmers' incentives to optimcally allocate land to food production.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/0376835X.2013.817300

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