Pigeonpea in Mozambique: An Emerging Success Story of Crop Expansion in Smallholder Agriculture

Tom Walker, Said Silim, Benedito Cunguara, Cynthia Donovan (), P. Parthasarathy Rao and Manuel Amane

No 210861, Miscellaneous Publications from Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics

Abstract: We document the rapid emergence of pigeonpea as a smallholder export crop in Mozambique and discuss implications of pigeonpea’s expansion in this study. An analysis of seven years of nationally and provincially representative rural survey data from 2002 to 2012 and an assessment of pulse production and consumption in India gave the following major results:

Keywords: Agricultural; and; Food; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 47
Date: 2015-09
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.210861

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