Informing Food Security and Nutrition Strategies in <scp>Sub‐Saharan</scp> African Countries: An Overview and Empirical Analysis

Mumin, Yazeed Abdul; Abdulai, Awudu

doi:10.1002/aepp.13126

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“…Thus, it is more appropriate to estimate our spatial model using the driving distance matrix. Improved agricultural technology adoption is expected to improve farm performance, and this has been reported in the literature (Abdul & Abdulai, 2020;Katengeza et al, 2019;Shiferaw et al, 2014). DTWVs adoption is not exceptional.…”

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“…Climate change threatens sustainable agricultural production and food security (Abdul Mumin & Abdulai, 2020;Holden & Fisher, 2015;Shikuku & Melesse, 2020;Song et al, 2018). For example, climate change, as a result of increasing temperatures, decreases rice yields via reducing tiller/panicle number, decreasing grain number per plant, and lowering grain weight (Xu et al, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Learning from neighboring farmers: Does spatial dependence affect adoption of drought‐tolerant wheat varieties in China?

Zheng

2021

Canadian J Agri Economics

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The adoption of improved crop varieties, such as drought-tolerant varieties, plays a crucial role in addressing climate change. In this study, we explore how and to what extent spatial interactions between farmers and neighboring farmers affect the adoption of drought-tolerant wheat varieties (DTWVs), using data collected from rural households in China. A spatial Durbin probit model is utilized to identify the spatial patterns in DTWVs adoption. Results show that spatial dependence exists in DTWVs adoption. Spatial dependence is positively associated with wheat farmers' DTWVs adoption decisions, and the spatial effects mainly arise from the neighboring farmers' adoption decisions and information spillover via smartphone use and extension service contacts. Further analysis reveals that DTWVs adoption improves farm performance by increasing both wheat yields and farm profits significantly. Our findings underscore the necessity of considering spatial interactions between farmers when designing and promoting innovative agricultural technologies in rural areas.

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Learning from neighboring farmers: Does spatial dependence affect adoption of drought‐tolerant wheat varieties in China?

Zheng

2021

Canadian J Agri Economics

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“…1 Relatedly, Mumin and Abdulai (2020) show that transitioning through different market orientations is associated with increases in household food and nutrient consumption. policies and various trade policies that have previously been implemented in many African countries.…”

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Complementary technology adoption and smallholder commercialization: Panel data evidence from Ethiopia

Tabe‐Ojong,

Geffersa

2024

Applied Eco Perspectives Pol

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Agricultural transformation involves the transition from subsistence agriculture marked by cultivating crops for auto‐consumption to cultivating crops for output markets. This transition from subsistence agriculture to market‐oriented agriculture can be a key policy boost to economic development, but evidence on the key entry points to increasing smallholder commercialization remains scarce. We examine the relationship between the adoption of improved maize varieties (IMVs), inorganic fertilizers, and smallholder commercialization. We model commercialization as a two‐step decision process involving market participation and the extent of participation (sales quantity) conditional on participation. Given these two related steps, we estimate a double‐hurdle model in both linear and non‐linear forms. Employing a three‐wave panel dataset from Ethiopia, we use the household fixed effects and correlated random effects model with the control function approach. We find the adoption of IMVs to be significantly associated with both market participation and the extent of participation. This relationship is also true for fertilizers, where we show a positive association between fertilizer use and commercialization. Given the seeming complementarity in the use of both IMVs and fertilizers, we further estimate their joint adoption. We use the multinomial endogenous switching regression model where we show greater commercialization gains under joint adoption. These findings are in line with a growing literature supporting the bundling of agricultural technologies. Given these insights, we provide empirical and policy support to the scaling of agricultural technologies as they have the potential to induce agricultural transformation by unlocking market opportunities.

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“…Specifically, we consider three macronutrients (proteins, fats, and carbohydrates) and three micronutrients (vitamin C, iron, and zinc). Few studies have investigated people's intake of macronutrients and micronutrients among rural households (Abdul Mumin & Abdulai, 2022; Ogutu et al, 2020; Schmidt et al, 2020; Teklewold et al, 2019), but they did not focus on the role of nutrition knowledge training in nutrient intake. To enrich our analysis, we also include total calorie intake as an outcome variable.…”

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Does nutrition knowledge training improve dietary diversity and nutrition intake? Insights from rural China

Zheng,

Ma,

Guo

2023

Agribusiness

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Improving dietary diversity and nutrition intake among rural households is essential to promote sustainable rural development. In this study, we examine whether nutrition knowledge training increases rural households' dietary diversity, nutrition intake, and total calorie intake. We consider three macronutrients (proteins, fats, and carbohydrates) and three micronutrients (vitamin C, iron, and zinc) to capture nutrition intake. The doubly robust inverse probability weighted regression adjustment estimator is employed to estimate survey data of 765 rural households collected by the Institute of Food and Nutrition Development, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China. The results show that nutrition knowledge training enhances household dietary diversity, improves the intake of macronutrients in terms of proteins and fats and micronutrients in terms of zinc, and increases total calorie intake. In addition, the intake of nutrients and calories of males responds to nutrition knowledge training while that of females does not. The dietary diversity of females increases with nutrition knowledge training, whereas that of males is unaffected. {EconLit Citations: I12, I18, Q12, E24}.

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Informing Food Security and Nutrition Strategies in Sub‐Saharan African Countries: An Overview and Empirical Analysis

Cited by 8 publications

References 57 publications

Learning from neighboring farmers: Does spatial dependence affect adoption of drought‐tolerant wheat varieties in China?

Learning from neighboring farmers: Does spatial dependence affect adoption of drought‐tolerant wheat varieties in China?

Complementary technology adoption and smallholder commercialization: Panel data evidence from Ethiopia

Does nutrition knowledge training improve dietary diversity and nutrition intake? Insights from rural China

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