Forty years of farming systems classification for enhanced food security and poverty reduction
Further progress towards improved food security and rural incomes and realization of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) requires a substantial increase in agricultural production, particularly of cereal crops such as maize, rice and wheat. During the four decades of experience with farming syst...
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| author | Dixon, John A. Hellin, JJ Xiaoyun, Li Hyman, Glenn G. |
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| description | Further progress towards improved food security and rural incomes and realization of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) requires a substantial increase in agricultural production, particularly of cereal crops such as maize, rice and wheat. During the four decades of experience with farming systems analyses, there has been a progressive broadening of research and development agendas and enrichment of classification methods. The Food and Agriculture Organization - World Bank farming systems framework represents a recent synthesis that blends systems and livelihood perspectives in order to analyse, classify and map farming systems in developing regions. The framework characterizes farming systems in terms of their potential to improve food security and reduce poverty, based on the two dimensions of: (i) agricultural resource endowment, e.g. land quality, and (ii) access to institutions, e.g. market access. These characteristics shape farming system development pathways and household livelihood strategies that intensify production and augment farm incomes largely from cereal-based systems (the bedrock of national and global food security) and thereby accelerate progress towards the MDGs. Among the five principal livelihood strategies for reducing poverty, farm intensification and diversification are promising avenues for substantial poverty reduction in many cereal farming systems. The relative importance of poverty-reducing intensification and diversification strategies in different farming systems provides a basis for priority setting and targeting of agricultural research. |
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| spelling | CGSpace688542025-11-12T05:57:23Z Forty years of farming systems classification for enhanced food security and poverty reduction Dixon, John A. Hellin, JJ Xiaoyun, Li Hyman, Glenn G. farming systems crops poverty intensification diversification food security markets developing countries sistemas de explotación cultivos pobreza intensificación diversificación seguridad alimentaria mercados países den desarrollo Further progress towards improved food security and rural incomes and realization of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) requires a substantial increase in agricultural production, particularly of cereal crops such as maize, rice and wheat. During the four decades of experience with farming systems analyses, there has been a progressive broadening of research and development agendas and enrichment of classification methods. The Food and Agriculture Organization - World Bank farming systems framework represents a recent synthesis that blends systems and livelihood perspectives in order to analyse, classify and map farming systems in developing regions. The framework characterizes farming systems in terms of their potential to improve food security and reduce poverty, based on the two dimensions of: (i) agricultural resource endowment, e.g. land quality, and (ii) access to institutions, e.g. market access. These characteristics shape farming system development pathways and household livelihood strategies that intensify production and augment farm incomes largely from cereal-based systems (the bedrock of national and global food security) and thereby accelerate progress towards the MDGs. Among the five principal livelihood strategies for reducing poverty, farm intensification and diversification are promising avenues for substantial poverty reduction in many cereal farming systems. The relative importance of poverty-reducing intensification and diversification strategies in different farming systems provides a basis for priority setting and targeting of agricultural research. 2009-01 2015-11-06T16:42:27Z 2015-11-06T16:42:27Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/68854 en Limited Access application/pdf CAB International Dixon, John A.; Hellin, J.J.; Xiaoyun, Li; Hyman, Glenn. 2009. Forty years of farming systems classification for enhanced food security and poverty reduction. Perspectives in Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Nutrition and Natural Resources 4(60):1-14. |
| spellingShingle | farming systems crops poverty intensification diversification food security markets developing countries sistemas de explotación cultivos pobreza intensificación diversificación seguridad alimentaria mercados países den desarrollo Dixon, John A. Hellin, JJ Xiaoyun, Li Hyman, Glenn G. Forty years of farming systems classification for enhanced food security and poverty reduction |
| title | Forty years of farming systems classification for enhanced food security and poverty reduction |
| title_full | Forty years of farming systems classification for enhanced food security and poverty reduction |
| title_fullStr | Forty years of farming systems classification for enhanced food security and poverty reduction |
| title_full_unstemmed | Forty years of farming systems classification for enhanced food security and poverty reduction |
| title_short | Forty years of farming systems classification for enhanced food security and poverty reduction |
| title_sort | forty years of farming systems classification for enhanced food security and poverty reduction |
| topic | farming systems crops poverty intensification diversification food security markets developing countries sistemas de explotación cultivos pobreza intensificación diversificación seguridad alimentaria mercados países den desarrollo |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/68854 |
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