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  1. Does organic farming jeopardize food and nutrition security?
    Author: Aïhounton, Ghislain B. D.; Henningsen, Arne
    Published: June 2023
    Publisher:  Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO), University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark

    The prevalence of organic farming and other sustainability standards is increasing around the globe. While effects of organic farming on productivity, income, and poverty alleviation have been analyzed in numerous empirical studies, its effects on... more

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    The prevalence of organic farming and other sustainability standards is increasing around the globe. While effects of organic farming on productivity, income, and poverty alleviation have been analyzed in numerous empirical studies, its effects on food and nutrition security are not yet understood. Using data from smallholder cotton farmers in Benin, we empirically investigate how adopting organic farming affects their food and nutrition security. Our results indicate that adopting organic farming substantially reduces their food security, while it tends to slightly reduce the nutritional quality of their diets. Evaluating pathways, we find that the decreased food and nutrition security is likely caused by lower household income due to lower income from cotton farming given a smaller land area cultivated with cotton, while a larger land area cultivated with food crops cannot fully compensate for the reduced income from cotton farming. This alarming result illustrates the need for evaluating and eventually improving programs for organic farming in developing countries to ensure that good intentions for more sustainable production practices do not jeopardize the livelihoods of vulnerable smallholder farmers.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    hdl: 10419/272333
    Series: IFRO working paper ; 2023, 02
    Subjects: organic farming; food security; dietary diversity; farm households; treatment effects
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 133 Seiten), Illustrationen
  2. Pesticide handling and human health
    conventional and organic cotton farming in Benin
    Author: Aïhounton, Ghislain B. D.; Henningsen, Arne; Trifkovic, Neda
    Published: June 2021
    Publisher:  Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO), University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark

    Synthetic pesticides can be detrimental to the health of humans, particularly when handled inappropriately, which is often the case in developing countries. We investigate to what extent using personal protective equipment (PPE) during pesticide... more

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    Synthetic pesticides can be detrimental to the health of humans, particularly when handled inappropriately, which is often the case in developing countries. We investigate to what extent using personal protective equipment (PPE) during pesticide application can mitigate the detrimental health effects of pesticides. Our empirical analysis is based on data from smallholder cotton farmers in Benin and includes both conventional cotton farmers who extensively use synthetic pesticides and organic cotton farmers who are only allowed to use bio-pesticides. Using per-capita health expenditure as proxy for the health of the farmers, our results show that conventional cotton farmers generally have significantly poorer health than organic cotton farmers because most conventional farmers wear insufficient PPE when spraying pesticides. While PPE use vastly improves the health of conventional farmers, we do not find a statistically significant effect on the health of organic cotton farmers, which could indicate that bio-pesticides have much smaller detrimental health effects than synthetic pesticides. However, conventional farmers have a similar state of health as organic farmers when they use four or more PPE items. Hence, measures that encourage conventional cotton farmers to use more PPE during pesticide spraying or to adopt organic farming would substantially improve these farmers’ health.

     
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    Series: IFRO working paper ; 2021, 06
    Subjects: pesticides; protective equipment; health; organic farming; smallholder farmers; cotton; Africa
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 51 Seiten), Illustrationen