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Samuel Benin

Samuel Benin is the Acting Director for Africa in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. He conducts research on national strategies and public investment for accelerating food systems transformation in Africa and provides analytical support to the African Union’s CAADP Biennial Review.

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Eduardo Maruyama

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Eduardo Maruyama is a Research Coordinator in the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit. He first joined IFPRI as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Currently, he works on improving market access for smallholders in sub-Saharan Africa through rural producer organizations (RPOs) as well as analyzing how valuable information flows from children to their parents and its potential as a policy tool in Peru. His past work focused on risk-coping strategies of the poor in developing countries and on combining economic theory, applied econometrics, and spatial analysis to develop typologies of rural communities for policy formulation. Before joining IFPRI, Eduardo worked as a Professor of Economics at the Universidad del Pacifico Graduate School and as an Assistant Researcher in the Grupo de Analisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE) in Peru. Eduardo was also a Fulbright Scholar. He earned a PhD in Economics in the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Languages spoken: English, Spanish

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Bundling cash loans with agricultural input loans for farmers in Nigeria: A pilot study

2023Ambler, Kate; Balana, Bedru; Bloem, Jeffrey R.; Maruyama, Eduardo; Olanrewaju, Opeyemi
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Bundling cash loans with agricultural input loans for farmers in Nigeria: A pilot study

Credit allows borrowers to access funds required to make an investment before returns materialize. For smallholder farmers, who must invest in agricultural inputs (i.e., seeds, chemicals, equipment, land, and labor) during the planting season before earning income from the sale of agricultural produce after har vest, credit helps alleviate liquidity constraints and promotes the ability of local agricultural production to support nutrition and food security. In rural Nigeria, access to credit—especially formal credit from finan cial institutions—is limited. Data collected in 2020 show that less than a third of households in rural Ni geria report using credit in the previous 12 months and only two percent of rural households borrowed credit from a financial institution. The rest is borrowed informally from friends, family, or local money lenders. In the absence of credit, smallholder farmers must cover the costs of agricultural production with their own funds that they have available during the planting season. This constrains agricultural production and contributes, in part, to the large gaps in agricultural productivity between high-income and low-in come countries around the world.

Year published

2023

Authors

Ambler, Kate; Balana, Bedru; Bloem, Jeffrey R.; Maruyama, Eduardo; Olanrewaju, Opeyemi

Citation

Ambler, Kate; Balana, Bedru; Bloem, Jeffrey R.; Maruyama, Eduardo; and Olanrewaju, Opeyemi. 2023. Bundling cash loans with agricultural input loans for farmers in Nigeria: A pilot study. Rethinking Food Markets Initiative Project Note December 2023. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.137032

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Nigeria

Keywords

Western Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Africa; Income; Investment; Capacity Development; Farm Inputs; Smallholders; Nutrition; Food Security; Credit; Investments

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English

Access/Licence

Open Access

Links

https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.137032 Source record

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Rethinking Food Markets

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Addressing irregular migration through principled programmatic approaches: Examining the West Africa route and WFP operations

2023Ambler, Kate; de Brauw, Alan; Maruyama, Eduardo; Moussavi, Sara
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Addressing irregular migration through principled programmatic approaches: Examining the West Africa route and WFP operations

This is a joint IFPRI-WFP study on the drivers, profile, and risks of irregular migration in the West Africa context. By taking a route-based approach to irregular migration in West Africa, the study examined migrants’ origins, their transit experience, and the situation where their journey stalls or ends. Drawing on a mixed methods approach the study includes case studies in Mali and Libya, representing an analysis of the migration route of the Ténéré desert crossing of the south-central Sahara. The overall analysis features the profiles of irregular migrants and the primary factors influencing their migration decisions. It also examines links between food insecurity and irregular migration to understand the risks and address the needs of this increasingly vulnerable population.

Year published

2023

Authors

Ambler, Kate; de Brauw, Alan; Maruyama, Eduardo; Moussavi, Sara

Citation

Ambler, Kate; de Brauw, Alan; Maruyama, Eduardo; and Moussavi, Sara. 2023. Addressing irregular migration through principled programmatic approaches: Examining the West Africa route and WFP operations. Rome, Italy: World Food Programme (WFP); and Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://www.wfp.org/publications/2023-addressing-irregular-migration-through-principled-programmatic-approaches

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Mali

Keywords

Libya; Western Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Africa; Northern Africa; Income; Economic Aspects; Political Aspects; Sahara; Decision Making; Migration; Risk; Food Insecurity; Climate Change

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English

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Open Access

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Strengthening producer organizations to increase market access of smallholder farmers in Uganda

2021Vargas Hill, Ruth; Maruyama, Eduardo; Olapade, Markus; Frölich, Markus
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Strengthening producer organizations to increase market access of smallholder farmers in Uganda

Smallholder agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa is largely exposed to pervasive market failures, translating into missed opportunities and sub-optimal economic behavior. These failures can partly be traced to the importance of economies of scale in procuring inputs and marketing produce, where smallholders face disproportionately high transaction costs. Producer organizations could help to lessen transaction costs; however, only a few farmers in Uganda sell through them. We introduce two interventions aimed at promoting marketing via producer organizations: cash on delivery, and information on sales, and analyze their impacts in an RCT design: We find that providing cash on delivery increases the probability that a member chooses to sell through the group, and hence the volumes bulked by each group. This increase in volumes appears to have enabled groups to secure higher prices for their produce. No significant effect could be found for providing information on sales.

Year published

2021

Authors

Vargas Hill, Ruth; Maruyama, Eduardo; Olapade, Markus; Frölich, Markus

Citation

Vargas Hill, Ruth; Maruyama, Eduardo; Olapade, Markus; and Frölich, Markus. 2021. Strengthening producer organizations to increase market access of smallholder farmers in Uganda. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 50(3): 436-464. https://doi.org/10.1017/age.2021.19

Country/Region

Uganda

Keywords

Sub-saharan Africa; Africa; Eastern Africa; Constraints; Agriculture; Smallholders; Market Access; Producer Organizations; Information; Cash Flow

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Links

https://doi.org/10.1017/age.2021.19 Source record

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Journal Article

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31st International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE)
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August 17 to 31, 2021

31st International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE)

Virtual Event: AUG 17, 2021 – 08:00 AM to AUG 31, 2021 08:00 PM EDT. IFPRI is participating in the 31st Conference of Agriculture Economists organized by the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE).