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  1 - Analyses of Labour Productivity among Small-Holder Cassava Farmers for Food Security and Empowerment in Central Madagascar
  بی.سی اوکویه آ. عباس بی. بچونکیزی جی. آسوموقا بی. آلنکه آر. راناوسون ان. رابمانانتسوا آی. رالیمانانا
  Labour productivity affects food security, but quantifyingthis relationship has been scarce with respect to empiricalliterature. The Central Madagascar dataset explores the influenceof labour productivity and related variables on the food securitystatus of cassava farme أکثر

  Labour productivity affects food security, but quantifyingthis relationship has been scarce with respect to empiricalliterature. The Central Madagascar dataset explores the influenceof labour productivity and related variables on the food securitystatus of cassava farmers. Drawing on both theory and empiricalevidence, this paper argues that fundamental effects of linksbetween labour productivity and food security are most timesoften overlooked currently in policy analyses. The study used aprobit regression analytical procedure to explain the effect oflabour productivity on food security of 180 Malagasy smallholdercassava farmers selected through a multi-stage randomsampling technique. Results showed that 25% of the cassavafarmers were food in-secure. Labour productivity had a directrelationship with food security status of farmers at 1% level ofprobability as well as membership of cooperatives and farmsize. Aged farmers were more food insecure at 10% level ofprobability than their younger counterparts. Households withhigh dependency ratio and family labour tend to be foodinsecure at 1% and 10% level of probability respectively amongthe farmers sampled. The results therefore call for land re-distributionand re-form policies aimed at encouraging youngerfarmers who seem to be more labour productive by allocatingmore land to these group (as cooperatives) to increase cassavacultivation thereby giving a boost to food security. تفاصيل المقالة