Resilience in farm technical efficiency and enabling factors: Insights from panel farm enterprise surveys in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

Economic resilience within the agrifood system is becoming increasingly crucial for assuring sustainable development. This is particularly so in regions with volatile and fragile environments, including Central Asia. Evidence remains scarce regarding what factors can enhance the economic resilience...

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Main Authors: Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Djanibekov, Nodir, Abduvalieva, Nilufar, Mirkasimov, Bakhrom, Akramov, Kamiljon T.
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Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 2023
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/136107
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author Takeshima, Hiroyuki
Djanibekov, Nodir
Abduvalieva, Nilufar
Mirkasimov, Bakhrom
Akramov, Kamiljon T.
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Akramov, Kamiljon T.
Djanibekov, Nodir
Mirkasimov, Bakhrom
Takeshima, Hiroyuki
author_facet Takeshima, Hiroyuki
Djanibekov, Nodir
Abduvalieva, Nilufar
Mirkasimov, Bakhrom
Akramov, Kamiljon T.
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description Economic resilience within the agrifood system is becoming increasingly crucial for assuring sustainable development. This is particularly so in regions with volatile and fragile environments, including Central Asia. Evidence remains scarce regarding what factors can enhance the economic resilience of agents within the agrifood system, including the resilience of productivity and technical efficiency. We partly fill this knowledge gap using the unique panel datasets of farm enterprises in Uzbekistan and southern Kazakhstan, collected in 2019 and 2022, during which these enterprises experienced significant economic shocks in input prices. Using novel methods that combine Inverse Probability Weighting and panel stochastic frontier analyses models, we show that farmers who received more agricultural training and who had been granted greater autonomy in their production decisions in 2018 experienced greater resilience in technical efficiency despite the need to reduce the use of chemical fertilizer and oil/diesel in response to their price surges. Our findings suggest that providing critical public goods like information (related to training) and enabling environment (related to decision-making autonomy) can potentially enhance the resilience in the technical efficiency of farm enterprises. Furthermore, with chemical fertilizer and oil/diesel being potentially environmentally harmful inputs, these farmers also indirectly demonstrated resilience toward environmental sustainability.
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spelling CGSpace1361072025-12-08T09:54:28Z Resilience in farm technical efficiency and enabling factors: Insights from panel farm enterprise surveys in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan Takeshima, Hiroyuki Djanibekov, Nodir Abduvalieva, Nilufar Mirkasimov, Bakhrom Akramov, Kamiljon T. resilience agrifood systems sustainable development agricultural training inputs prices Economic resilience within the agrifood system is becoming increasingly crucial for assuring sustainable development. This is particularly so in regions with volatile and fragile environments, including Central Asia. Evidence remains scarce regarding what factors can enhance the economic resilience of agents within the agrifood system, including the resilience of productivity and technical efficiency. We partly fill this knowledge gap using the unique panel datasets of farm enterprises in Uzbekistan and southern Kazakhstan, collected in 2019 and 2022, during which these enterprises experienced significant economic shocks in input prices. Using novel methods that combine Inverse Probability Weighting and panel stochastic frontier analyses models, we show that farmers who received more agricultural training and who had been granted greater autonomy in their production decisions in 2018 experienced greater resilience in technical efficiency despite the need to reduce the use of chemical fertilizer and oil/diesel in response to their price surges. Our findings suggest that providing critical public goods like information (related to training) and enabling environment (related to decision-making autonomy) can potentially enhance the resilience in the technical efficiency of farm enterprises. Furthermore, with chemical fertilizer and oil/diesel being potentially environmentally harmful inputs, these farmers also indirectly demonstrated resilience toward environmental sustainability. 2023-11-30 2024-01-02T16:57:27Z 2024-01-02T16:57:27Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/136107 en https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12710 https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2024.2405203 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Takeshima, H., Djanibekov, N., Abduvalieva, N., Mirkasimov, B. and Akramov, K. 2023. Resilience in farm technical efficiency and enabling factors: Insights from panel farm enterprise surveys in Kazakh-stan and Uzbekistann. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2205. Washington, DC: IFPRI. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/136107
spellingShingle resilience
agrifood systems
sustainable development
agricultural training
inputs
prices
Takeshima, Hiroyuki
Djanibekov, Nodir
Abduvalieva, Nilufar
Mirkasimov, Bakhrom
Akramov, Kamiljon T.
Resilience in farm technical efficiency and enabling factors: Insights from panel farm enterprise surveys in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
title Resilience in farm technical efficiency and enabling factors: Insights from panel farm enterprise surveys in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
title_full Resilience in farm technical efficiency and enabling factors: Insights from panel farm enterprise surveys in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
title_fullStr Resilience in farm technical efficiency and enabling factors: Insights from panel farm enterprise surveys in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
title_full_unstemmed Resilience in farm technical efficiency and enabling factors: Insights from panel farm enterprise surveys in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
title_short Resilience in farm technical efficiency and enabling factors: Insights from panel farm enterprise surveys in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
title_sort resilience in farm technical efficiency and enabling factors insights from panel farm enterprise surveys in kazakhstan and uzbekistan
topic resilience
agrifood systems
sustainable development
agricultural training
inputs
prices
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/136107
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