Pigeonpea in Mozambique: An Emerging Success Story of Crop Expansion in Smallholder Agriculture

Walker, Tom; Silim, Said; Cunguara, Benedito; Donovan, Cynthia; Rao, P. Parthasarathy; Amane, Manuel

doi:10.22004/ag.econ.210861

Pigeonpea in Mozambique: An Emerging Success Story of Crop Expansion in Smallholder Agriculture

Walker, Tom; Silim, Said; Cunguara, Benedito; Donovan, Cynthia; Rao, P. Parthasarathy; Amane, Manuel

2015

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Abstract

We document the rapid emergence of pigeonpea as a smallholder export crop in Mozambique and discuss implications of pigeonpea’s expansion in this study. An analysis of seven years of nationally and provincially representative rural survey data from 2002 to 2012 and an assessment of pulse production and consumption in India gave the following major results: