Input Use and Conservation Investments among Farm Households in Rwanda: Patterns and Determinants

Daniel C. Clay, Valerie Kelly (), Edson Mpyisi and Thomas Reardon

No 57053, Food Security Collaborative Working Papers from Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics

Abstract: One of the Government of Rwanda’s key post-war policy objectives has been to increase agricultural productivity and ensure food security by promoting a transition from semi-subsistence production and marketing practices to intensive production and highly commercialized agricultural markets. The government wants farmers to increase land and labor productivity through the use of modern inputs, thereby generating substantial surpluses which can be sold to pay for inputs and generate increases in farm incomes.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Crop Production/Industries; Food Security and Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.57053

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