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Exploring social indicators in smallholder food systems: modeling children’s educational outcomes on crop-livestock family farms in Madagascar

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dc.contributor.authorThom, Amy E.
dc.contributor.authorBélières, Jean-François
dc.contributor.authorConradie, Beatrice
dc.contributor.authorSalgado, Paulo
dc.contributor.authorVigne, Mathieu
dc.contributor.authorFangueiro, David
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-07T19:44:37Z
dc.date.available2025-01-07T19:44:37Z
dc.date.issued2024-03
dc.description.abstractPromoting smallholders’ sustainable development in Africa means addressing agronomic and economic factors but also highly relevant social influences shaping farmers’ production and affecting household well-being. Holistic, integrated analyses can help to meet this need, informing more effective policies and interventions for smallholder farming systems. The authors apply a transdisciplinary, quantitative approach to analyzing social impacts in the smallholder context, using milk-producing crop-livestock family farms in central Madagascar as a test case. First, stochastic frontier analysis is leveraged to confirm education as a social indicator linked to production efficiency. Then, linear regression is used for exploratory modeling of children’s educational outcomes. Findings from the Malagasy case emphasize the influence of rural infrastructure, parental education, chronic poverty, family planning, and crop-livestock diversification on children’s educational outcomes among one region’s farming households. Taken together, results suggest that Madagascar’s policymakers should consider comprehensive territorial planning for simultaneously promoting agricultural development and human well-being. This study illustrates how a transdisciplinary approach to social impacts analysis can integrate agronomic, economic, and social dynamics and help anticipate potential outcomes in support of smallholders’ sustainable development.pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citationThom AE, Bélières J-F, Conradie B, Salgado P, Vigne M and Fangueiro D (2024) Exploring social indicators in smallholder food systems: modeling children’s educational outcomes on crop-livestock family farms in Madagascar. Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 8:1356985. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2024.1356985pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.3389/fsufs.2024.1356985pt_PT
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/96942
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherFrontierspt_PT
dc.relationLaboratory for Sustainable Land Use and Ecosystem Services
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sustainable-food-systemspt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectrural developmentpt_PT
dc.subjectsmallholderspt_PT
dc.subjectagri-food systemspt_PT
dc.subjectpolicy guidancept_PT
dc.subjectsustainable developmentpt_PT
dc.subjectsocial impacts analysispt_PT
dc.subjectAR4Dpt_PT
dc.titleExploring social indicators in smallholder food systems: modeling children’s educational outcomes on crop-livestock family farms in Madagascarpt_PT
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oaire.citation.startPageArticle number 1356985pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systemspt_PT
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