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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Impact of modern agricultural technologies on smallholder welfare: Evidence from Tanzania and Ethiopia
Food Policy, Volume 37, No. 3, Year 2012
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This paper evaluates the potential impact of adoption of improved legume technologies on rural household welfare measured by consumption expenditure in rural Ethiopia and Tanzania. The study utilizes cross-sectional farm household level data collected in 2008 from a randomly selected sample of 1313 households (700 in Ethiopia and 613 in Tanzania). The causal impact of technology adoption is estimated by utilizing endogenous switching regression. This helps us estimate the true welfare effect of technology adoption by controlling for the role of selection problem on production and adoption decisions. Our analysis reveals that adoption of improved agricultural technologies has a significant positive impact consumption expenditure (in per adult equivalent terms) in rural Ethiopia and Tanzania. This confirms the potential role of technology adoption in improving rural household welfare as higher consumption expenditure from improved technologies translate into lower poverty, higher food security and greater ability to withstand risk. An analysis of the determinants of adoption highlighted inadequate local supply of seed, access to information and perception about the new cultivars as key constraints for technology adoption. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
Authors & Co-Authors
Asfaw, Solomon
France, Paris
European Space Agency - Esa
Shiferaw, Bekele A.
Kenya, Nairobi
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre Cimmyt
Simtowe, Franklin Peter
Kenya, Nairobi
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-arid Tropics Nairobi
Lipper, Leslie
France, Paris
European Space Agency - Esa
Statistics
Citations: 536
Authors: 4
Affiliations: 3
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/j.foodpol.2012.02.013
ISSN:
03069192
Research Areas
Food Security
Health System And Policy
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Study Locations
Ethiopia
Tanzania