The impact of large-scale agricultural investments in low-income economies

Recent years have witnessed an increasing interest in large-scale agricultural land acquisitions in developing countries. The accompanying socio-economic implications have been areas of debate among politicians, policymakers and development agents. This paper argues that the traditional way of simul...

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Main Author: Aragie, Emerta A.
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: SAGE Publications 2024
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/139861
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description Recent years have witnessed an increasing interest in large-scale agricultural land acquisitions in developing countries. The accompanying socio-economic implications have been areas of debate among politicians, policymakers and development agents. This paper argues that the traditional way of simulating the impacts of these investments in developing countries is misleading as the approach implies that the new investments are identical to the semi-subsistence way of farming that dominates agricultural practices in the host countries. In this study, we incorporate the peculiarity of large-scale agro-investments into an existing database for economy-wide models, i.e., social accounting matrix (SAM), and capture welfare and distributional outcomes properly. SAM-based multiplier models applied to Ethiopian data justify the need to account for the peculiarity of the investments in terms of production technology and their geographic distribution.
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spelling CGSpace1398612025-10-26T12:56:04Z The impact of large-scale agricultural investments in low-income economies Aragie, Emerta A. developing countries investment land acquisitions production technology Recent years have witnessed an increasing interest in large-scale agricultural land acquisitions in developing countries. The accompanying socio-economic implications have been areas of debate among politicians, policymakers and development agents. This paper argues that the traditional way of simulating the impacts of these investments in developing countries is misleading as the approach implies that the new investments are identical to the semi-subsistence way of farming that dominates agricultural practices in the host countries. In this study, we incorporate the peculiarity of large-scale agro-investments into an existing database for economy-wide models, i.e., social accounting matrix (SAM), and capture welfare and distributional outcomes properly. SAM-based multiplier models applied to Ethiopian data justify the need to account for the peculiarity of the investments in terms of production technology and their geographic distribution. 2024-07 2024-03-07T21:07:50Z 2024-03-07T21:07:50Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/139861 en Limited Access SAGE Publications Aragie, Emerta A. 2024. The impact of large-scale agricultural investments in low-income economies. Journal of Development Policy and Practice 9(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/24551333231183249
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The impact of large-scale agricultural investments in low-income economies
title The impact of large-scale agricultural investments in low-income economies
title_full The impact of large-scale agricultural investments in low-income economies
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title_short The impact of large-scale agricultural investments in low-income economies
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investment
land acquisitions
production technology
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