Who benefits from which agricultural research-for-development technologies? Evidence from farm household poverty analysis in Central Africa

Ainembabazi, John Herbert; Abdoulaye, Tahirou; Feleke, Shiferaw; Alene, Arega D.; Dontsop-Nguezet, Paul M.; Ndayisaba, Pierre Celestin; Hicintuka, Cyrille; Mapatano, Sylvain; Manyong, Víctor M.

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.03.013

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“…The failure to account for the potential endogenous selection bias in the outcome equations may, therefore, result in biased and inconsistent estimators. Past studies have applied both semi-parametric and parametric approaches that take account of the potential self-selection problem (Abdoulaye, Wossen, & Awotide, ;Ainembabazi et al, 2018;Ali & Abdulai, 2010;Asfaw, Kassie, Simtowe, & Lipper, 2012;Becerril & Abdulai, 2010;Feleke, Manyong, Abdoulaye, & Alene, 2016;Khonje, Manda, Alene, & Kassie, 2015;Manda et al, 2019;Shiferaw et al, 2014;Tufa et al, 2019;Wossen et al, 2017). In this study, we use the parametric approach (endogenous switching regression model), and semi-parametric (propensity score matching) approaches, with the latter being used as a robustness check to the results of the former.…”

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Household welfare impacts of an agricultural innovation platform in Uganda

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Feleke

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Food and Energy Security

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Technical approaches to food production are important to the food security of growing populations in developing countries. However, strategic investments in research and farm‐level adoption require greater coherence in agricultural, societal, and local policies. The Agricultural Innovation System (AIS) and formation of the Cassava Innovation Platform (CIP) in Uganda were designed to stimulate interactions between researchers and farmers, leading to the development of improved cassava varieties through participatory plant breeding (PPB) and participatory variety selection (PVS). Moreover, the establishment of a community‐based commercialized seed system called Cassava Seed Entrepreneurship (CSE) has made an important contribution to the rapid multiplication and dissemination of clean planting materials in Uganda. The impact of CIP participation on rural household welfare was measured by household consumption expenditure per capita. The Endogenous Switching Regression (ESR) model was applied to data from a formal household survey conducted in the eastern, northern, and mid‐western regions of Uganda. The education, farm size, livestock size, access to credit, cost of cassava planting materials, access to extension service, access to training, and social group membership are significantly associated with CIP participation. CIP participation resulted in a 47.4% increase in household consumption expenditure. This important evidence highlights the need to promote agricultural innovation platform for improving rural livelihoods. Moreover, CIP participation has impact heterogeneity within the participant group that is conditional on household characteristics such as the gender of the household head, pointing to the need to tailor specific interventions and target specific groups within farm households.

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Household welfare impacts of an agricultural innovation platform in Uganda

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Feleke

et al. 2020

Food and Energy Security

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“…Improving agricultural technology has been a primary focus of national and international strategies to improve food production in developing nations, but the outcomes of this effort in terms of increased productivity, poverty reduction, and economic growth are inconsistent. Aniembabazi et al cite numerous studies showing the beneficial outcomes of individual innovations on food and nutrition security and poverty reduction [3]. "Improved varieties" are an example.…”

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“…It differentiates long-established open-pollinated and hybrids from seed of unknown lineage and from the most recent varieties, which are rarely available in developing nations and are very expensive, typically beyond what farmers in these nations can pay. Aniembabazi et al's analysis of the overall effect of AR4D on household poverty in in Ethiopia [4], Zambia [5], Mexico [6], Malawi [7], and Tanzania [8] show complex outcomes [3]. They found that the benefits of AR4D accrue differentially to households based on household traits, individual technologies, and packages or ensembles of technologies.…”

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The Formal Agricultural Input Sector: A Missing Asset in Developing Nations?

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The formal input supply sector has received little attention in developing nations, including Haiti. We interviewed input store owners in Haiti and collected information on the availability and sources of inputs and challenges facing vendors. Three large suppliers import most inputs available to farmers. Second tier traders, mostly small stores that purchase from the major suppliers, play a critical role in making inputs accessible to rural communities. These formal stores have significant potential to transform the agricultural sector but face three major challenges. (1) Improved seed is a critically needed input, but older cultivars dominate because there is limited breeding in Haiti, few seed importers, and inadequate patent protections that make holders reluctant to move new varieties into Haiti. (2) The types of fertilizers and pesticides available to farmers are limited and many are technologically outdated. (3) In-country transportation is slow and relatively expensive and needed inputs often do not reach farmers in a timely manner. We conclude that approaches that bring together the strengths and assets of the public sector, the non-profit private sector and the for-profit private sector and increased attention to policy measures that benefit all three sectors are requisites for supply chain development in Haiti.

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“…However, increasing the number of ISFM components did not improve maize yield or total household income. Ainembabazi et al (2018) reported that farmers in Central Africa who adopted either one technical package or a combination of two technical packages (but not all), i.e., AR4D technologies (improved crop varieties (IVs)), crops and natural resource management (CNRM), and post-harvest (PH) technology, gained much greater benefits related to reducing poverty than those who adopted all technologies simultaneously. Di Falco and Veronesi (2013) found that in the Nile basin of Ethiopia, farmers who simultaneously adopted three climate change adaptation strategies, including water conservation strategies, soil conservation strategies, and crop rotation, did not generate a higher net income than those who adopted two strategies.…”

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Effects of the Adoption of Technology Combinations Beyond Standardized Systems on the Income of Chinese Tobacco Farmers

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2021

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Using the microdata for tobacco farmer households in Chongqing, China, this article analyses the determinants of adopting additional multiple agricultural technologies and their impact on income based on implementing a standardized technology system by a tobacco company. In this paper, selection bias from the observed and unobserved heterogeneity was corrected using a multinomial endogenous treatment effects model, and the endogenous properties were eliminated. The empirical results show that the adoption of a variety of additional agricultural technologies was determined by famer’s education level, years of tobacco planting, household size, number of technical training sessions, distance from farmer’s family to the nearest tobacco technology extension station, distance from farmer’s family to the nearest township, proportion of land suitable for machine farming, proportion of leased land. Different from empirical judgment, integrated pest management and balanced fertilization are the most effective additional technology combination strategies for increasing farmers’ income instead of combining all additional comprehensive technologies. The research results suggest that Chongqing Tobacco Company should further strengthen the training of tobacco farmers and guide tobacco farmers to take appropriate pesticide and fertilizer input beyond the standardized technical system, especially for those tobacco farmers far away from the tobacco technology extension station.

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Who benefits from which agricultural research-for-development technologies? Evidence from farm household poverty analysis in Central Africa

Cited by 20 publications

References 63 publications

Household welfare impacts of an agricultural innovation platform in Uganda

Household welfare impacts of an agricultural innovation platform in Uganda

The Formal Agricultural Input Sector: A Missing Asset in Developing Nations?

Effects of the Adoption of Technology Combinations Beyond Standardized Systems on the Income of Chinese Tobacco Farmers

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