Strategies: HH perspective FS3

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Strategies HH perspective FS3

• Intensification
• Diversification
• Expansion
• Off-farm
• Exit

• Irrigated s-sys
• Poor HH
• Medium HH
• Better-off HH
• Mixed s-sys
• Poor HH
• Medium HH
• Better-off HH

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Strategies Feasibility Policy framework

• Intensification
• Diversification
• Expansion
• Off-farm
• Exit

• For whom?
• Poor HH ?
• Medium HH ?
• Better-off HH ?
• In which FS?
• Which policy support is required?

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Policy areas I

• Credit
• Liquidity constraints, particularly for poor
  households
• Crop finance/seasonal credit
• Investment ? Medium/Long-term credit
• Informal credit markets

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Policy areas II

• Land tenure
• Lengthy administrative procedures for tenure
  registration
• Transfer of ownership of agrarian reform land
• Importance for improved credit access in some FS
• Avoid farmers being inclined to seek informal
  arrangements, which tend to be unfavourable for
  poor farmers

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Policy areas III

• Industrial crops
• Provide stability and employment (directly and
  indirectly), particularly for poor households
• Influence cropping pattern also in areas with
  principally good market access
• Reduce land use intensity on land which has
  benefited from large public investment
• Water fees and water use efficiency

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Policy areas IV

• Price and market information
• Support the farm management decision making for
  crops under private marketing through price and
  market information
• Extension unit/Agricultural plan
• Dual function Administrative and advisory
• Stimulation of progressive farming practices more
  successful in free market dominated FS
• Procedures for plan implementation of industrial
  crops extremely demanding

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• Thank youfor your kind attention!
• The NAPC team is looking forward to the dialogue
  about the farming systems framework for the
  analysis of the agricultural sector
• NAPC Researchers
• Ahmed Saadeddin, Akram Shhaideh, Firas Yassin,
  Hassan Al Mojahed, Mourad Sayyed, Raid Hamza,
  Samira Al Zoughbi
• Mahmoud Al Ashram, National Consultant
• Horst Wattenbach, International Consultant