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In this chapter, we use recent data on almost 7,000 smallholders and 395 water user associations (WUAs), along with propensity score matching (PSM) and regression analysis, to quantitatively assess whether membership in producer organizations affects technical efficiency of smallholders and whether the design and governance of such organizations affects the organizations' performance. Our results reveal that membership is associated with greater efficiency and that the design of organizations and their governance can enhance their commercial performance. Policymakers would thus do well to work with producer organizations and further build their governance capacity and membership base for successful implementation of the country's agricultural development strategy. ; PR ; IFPRI4; ReSAKSS ; AFR

This study presents a stylized but insightful diagnostic of the problems limiting collective action in Ghanaian farmer-based organizations (FBOs). In our analysis, we use a structure-conduct-performance framework, econometrics, and new primary data for 500 FBOs collected through surveys and games. We find that most Ghanaian FBOs are inactive, failing to mobilize their members into any sort of collective action. To understand why this is so, we postulate that in rural Ghana, four typologies can be used to classify FBOs and to distinguish them on the basis of their membership structure and rules of conduct. We then show that FBOs fail to mobilize collective action whenever their structure and conduct are not aligned. In particular, misalignment leads mainly to problems of access to external credit and to a lesser extent to problems of internal cohesion. To maximize collective action, this study recommends the diversification of policy through recognizing the four different types of FBOs, each facing particular and to some extent opposing problems. ; Non-PR ; IFPRI1; GRP32 ; DSGD

COVID-19 and the measures governments have put in place to prevent its aggravation have triggered an economic recession that will increase poverty rates and hunger. In June, the International Monetary Fund projected a 4.9% decline in global economic growth compared to 20191. A similar forecast has been generated under Ceres2030, a research project co-directed by the International Food Policy Research Institute, Cornell University and the International Institute for Sustainable Development that is calculating the cost of effective interventions to end hunger sustainably. The estimate is that 95 million additional people, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa, will be living in extreme poverty by the end of the year. ; IFPRI3; 1 Fostering Climate-Resilient and Sustainable Food Supply; CRP2; Ceres2030 ; AFR; PIM ; Non-PR ; CGIAR Research Programs on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)

Senegalese agriculture is unusually specialized in just three products: groundnuts, rice, and millet. Groundnuts have remained Senegal's premier export crop, rice remains the principle importable food, and millet is the principal food crop (Masters 2007). Senegal has been considered one of the most highly controlled markets in West Africa (Masters 2007). Historically, the Senegalese government has maintained a monopoly both on the purchase of groundnuts and on processing them into oil. At the beginning of the season, the government would set one producer price for groundnuts throughout the country. Accepting this pan-territorial price, farmers were required to sell their groundnuts to official agencies. Since the cost of transporting the groundnuts from the collection points near the villages to the mill was borne by the government or its parastatal groundnut agency (la Société Nationale de Commercialisation des Oléagineux du Sénégal [SONACOS]), every farmer received the same price, regardless of how far the farm was from the groundnut mill (Gray 2002). ; Non-PR ; IFPRI1; GRP32 ; DSGD; WCAO