Is crop diversification a panacea for climate resilience in Africa?
Welfare implications for heterogeneous households
Crop diversification is often promoted as a strategy to achieve climate resilience. However, the benefits to crop diversification may vary depending on household resource endowments. For farm households with few resources, as shown by studies of Burkina Faso, Malawi and Zambia, crop diversification is likely to be an important strategy for managing production and price risk. However, for larger, better capitalized farms, diversification may not be welfare enhancing, because returns to specialization may be higher for these households.
Organization: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Year: 2017
Country/ies: Burkina Faso, Malawi, Zambia
Geographical coverage: Africa
Type: Policy brief/paper
Full text available at: http://www.fao.org/3/a-i7762e.pdf
Content language: English