Recovering from conflict: an analysis of food production in Burundi

Marijke F.C. D'Haese, Stijn Speelman, Ellen Vandamme, Tharcisse Nkunzimana (), Jean Ndimubandi and Luc D'Haese

No 96829, 2010 AAAE Third Conference/AEASA 48th Conference, September 19-23, 2010, Cape Town, South Africa from African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAE)

Abstract: This paper deals with the devastating food insecurity in two densely populated provinces in the north of Burundi as a result of overpopulation and low production capacity in the aftermath of conflict. We compare data that was collected in the Ngozi and Muyinga Province in 2007 with data of households interviewed on the same hills in 1996. Households live from subsistence farming, erratic surplus sales, sales of coffee and banana and occasional off- and non-farm work. We find that not only did production levels decrease but also total factor productivity (Malmquist indices calculated with DEA approach) dropped in 83% of the hills between 1996 and 2007.

Keywords: International; Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32
Date: 2010-09
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.96829

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