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ABSTRACT
Because of rapid urbanisation and increasing food price volatility, Burkina Faso was compelled to prioritise boosting rice production, leading to a ten-year rice development project (NRDS), commencing in 2009. During the project, the country’s rice production was 3.2 times higher, on average, than the previous decade, while funding to agriculture increased by 210 per cent. This study concerns the dynamics of funding in influencing rice production according to their sources, by uniquely examining mediation effects through cropland extension, rice yield, worker productivity and land productivity. No significant difference between public and private funding are found. Official development assistance and remittance are fully mediated by cropland extension and worker productivity improvement, while other funds are partially mediated. The NRDS might do well to address the disclosed shortcomings in this study, for example, the stagnation of rice yields may deteriorate the food security of the poor.
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Acknowledgements
I thank the Managing Editor, Dr Emily Finlay, and two anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions which have substantially improved the paper. I am grateful to Donald Cunningham for his encouragement and helping in writing the manuscript. Any remaining errors are mine.
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Notes
1 Rice for Africa forum, “Working Week for the finalization of NRDS II Concept Notes in Burkina Faso”, 22–26 February 2021. https://riceforafrica.net/burkina-faso-february-2021/
2 data from 400 villages participating in the Soutenir l’Exploitation Familiale pour Lancer l’Elevage des Volailles et Valoriser l’Economie Rurale II (SELEVER II) project
3 Assumed about 22 per cent of FDI was invested in agriculture in Burkina Faso (WB Citation2019).
4 Assumed about one per cent of remittance was invested in agriculture as of 2014 (WB Citation2019).
5 The elastic net is intended to prune out the “zero-valued coefficients”, such that you should expect all of the selected coefficients to be significantly different from zero, by virtue of being selected: https://stats.stackexchange.com/posts/440211/edit.
6 Law No. 034-2009/AN on Rural Land Tenure of 16 June 2009, Decree No. 2010-400/PRES/PM/MAHRH/MRA/MECV/MEF/MATD on procedures for the development and validation of local land charters.