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description Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2021Publisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Brian P. Mulenga; Hambulo Ngoma; Chewe Nkonde;Brian P. Mulenga; Hambulo Ngoma; Chewe Nkonde;Abstract With only 10 years before the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of Zero Hunger, the global community is in a race to address mounting food and nutrition insecurity among the over 820 million people in the World. This is more profound for developing countries like Zambia where food and nutrition insecurity remain huge development challenges. Output market participation by smallholder rural households has been touted as a possible pathway to improving dietary diversity in addition to production diversity. This study applied structural equation modeling (SEM) techniques to a nationally representative, two-wave household-level panel data of over 6000 rural smallholder farmers in Zambia to assess the extent to which participation in output markets affects dietary diversity and how this effect changed between 2015 and 2019. We measure dietary diversity using a household dietary diversity score (HDDS) and market participation using household commercialization index. We find that market participation enhances household dietary diversity, with the effect being stronger in 2019 than in 2015. Besides reinforcing the importance of market access and participation in improving household nutritional outcomes, our finding demonstrate the increasing role of markets in the nutrition of rural households. Another key result is that household production diversity improves dietary diversity. Taken together, these findings imply that nutrition sensitive agricultural interventions should concomitantly help improve market access and participation for smallholder farmers, and promote a broader food group diversification at the farm level.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu22 citations 22 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!more_vert add ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2021 ItalyPublisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Amare M.; Abay K. A.; Tiberti L.; Chamberlin J.;Amare M.; Abay K. A.; Tiberti L.; Chamberlin J.;Abstract This paper combines pre-pandemic face-to-face survey data with follow up phone surveys collected in April-May 2020 to examine the implication of the COVID-19 pandemic on household food security and labor market participation outcomes in Nigeria. To examine these relationships and implications, we exploit spatial variation in exposure to COVID-19 related infections and lockdown measures, along with temporal differences in our outcomes of interest, using a difference-in-difference approach. We find that households exposed to higher COVID-19 case rates or mobility lockdowns experience a significant increase in measures of food insecurity. Examining possible transmission channels for this effect, we find that the spread of the pandemic is associated with significant reductions in labor market participation. For instance, lockdown measures are associated with 6–15 percentage points increase in households' experience of food insecurity. Similarly, lockdown measures are associated with 12 percentage points reduction in the probability of participation in non-farm business activities. These lockdown measures have limited implications on wage-related activities and farming activities. In terms of food security, households relying on non-farm businesses, poorer households, and those living in remote and conflicted-affected zones have experienced relatively larger deteriorations in food security. These findings can help inform immediate and medium-term policy responses, including social protection policies aiming at ameliorating the impacts of the pandemic.
Flore (Florence Rese... arrow_drop_down Flore (Florence Research Repository); Food PolicyArticle . 2021 . Peer-reviewedLicense: CC BYFlore (Florence Research Repository)Article . 2021Data sources: Flore (Florence Research Repository)add ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess RoutesGreen hybrid 110 citations 110 popularity Top 1% influence Top 10% impulse Top 1% Powered by BIP!more_vert Flore (Florence Rese... arrow_drop_down Flore (Florence Research Repository); Food PolicyArticle . 2021 . Peer-reviewedLicense: CC BYFlore (Florence Research Repository)Article . 2021Data sources: Flore (Florence Research Repository)add ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2021Publisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Poole, Nigel; Donovan, Jason; Erenstein, Olaf;Poole, Nigel; Donovan, Jason; Erenstein, Olaf;Research linking agriculture and nutrition has evolved since the mid-20th century. The current focus is on child-stunting, dietary diversity and ‘nutrient-rich’ foods in recognition of the growing burdens of malnutrition and non-communicable diseases. This article concerns the global dietary and health contribution of major cereals, specifically maize and wheat, which are often considered not to be ‘nutrient-rich’ foods. Nevertheless, these cereals are major sources of dietary energy, of essential proteins and micronutrients, and diverse non-nutrient bioactive food components. Research on bioactives, and dietary fibre in particular, is somewhat ‘siloed’, with little attention paid by the agri-nutrition research community to the role of cereal bioactives in healthy diets, and the adverse health effects often arising through processing and manufacturing of cereals-based food products. We argue that the research agenda should embrace the whole nutritional contribution of the multiple dietary components of cereals towards addressing the triple burden of undernutrition, micronutrient malnutrition, overweight/obesity and non-communicable diseases. Agri-nutrition and development communities need to adopt a multidisciplinary and food systems research approach from farm to metabolism. Agriculture researchers should collaborate with other food systems stakeholders on nutrition-related challenges in cereal production, processing and manufacturing, and food waste and losses. Cereal and food scientists should also collaborate with social scientists to better understand the impacts on diets of the political economy of the food industry, and the diverse factors which influence local and global dietary transitions, consumer behavioural choices, dietary change, and the assessment and acceptance of novel and nutritious cereal-based products. Highlights • Current agri-nutrition research focuses on micronutrient malnutrition and stunting. • The dietary contribution of many essential bioactive food components is understated. • Cereals are rich in bioactives such as dietary fibre that have major health benefits. • Research should address the full health benefits of cereals like maize and wheat. • Agri-nutrition studies should be multidisciplinary and whole food systems-oriented.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess RoutesGreen hybrid 102 citations 102 popularity Top 1% influence Top 10% impulse Top 1% Powered by BIP!visibility 12visibility views 12 download downloads 92 Powered bymore_vert Europe PubMed Centra... arrow_drop_down Europe PubMed CentralArticle . 2020Full-Text: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC7499093Data sources: PubMed CentralCORE (RIOXX-UK Aggregator)Article . 2021License: CC BY NC NDData sources: CORE (RIOXX-UK Aggregator)add ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2020Publisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Paswel Marenya; Gebrelibanos Gebremariam; Moti Jaleta; Dil Bahadur Rahut;Paswel Marenya; Gebrelibanos Gebremariam; Moti Jaleta; Dil Bahadur Rahut;Abstract In addition to experimental data, using information collected from farmers is vital to assess the performance of candidate farming technologies. The latter provides the basis for farmers’ assessments and adoption decisions. Using detailed georeferenced plot and household level data from Ethiopia, this paper estimates the impact of a set of sustainability-enhancing agronomic practices on maize yields and implied net maize income with the aid of multinomial endogenous regime-switching regression that corrects for unobserved heterogeneity. The treatments’ effects on yield ranged from 29.5% for the fertilizer-dominant strategy to 88% in the case of fertilizer, maize-legume diversification, and soil and water conservation combinations. Second, while the impacts of the agronomic packages are significant in almost all states of the world, there were considerable heterogeneity effects conditioned on observed rainfall deviations from the historical average with levels effects of up to 92% and heterogeneity effects of 33–64%. The heterogeneous and rainfall-conditioned impacts point to the role of local biophysical modifiers of the impacts of agricultural practices. Investments in context-appropriate adaptation in agricultural research and extension is suggested.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu27 citations 27 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!more_vert add ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2020Publisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Chiara Cazzuffi; Andrew McKay; Emilie Perge;Chiara Cazzuffi; Andrew McKay; Emilie Perge;Abstract Commercialisation by smallholder farmers has played a major role in agricultural development in many Asian countries, and while there are assumptions that this has led to welfare improvement, in fact there is relatively little evidence on this question. In this paper we use high quality panel data to examine the welfare impact of agricultural commercialisation in a leading Asian producer, Vietnam. We use the five-wave Vietnam Access to Resources Household Survey (VARHS) panel data set from 2008 to 16, three measures of household welfare and create commercialisation indexes in relation to all crops and to rice specifically. We find a significant positive relationship of commercialisation with household asset accumulation, but a negative association with consumption expenditure.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess Routeshybrid 27 citations 27 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!more_vert add ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2014Publisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Fisher, Monica; Kandiwa, Vongai;Fisher, Monica; Kandiwa, Vongai;Abstract Nationally representative data for Malawi were used to measure the gender gap in adoption of modern maize and to investigate how, if at all, Malawi’s Farm Input Subsidy Program (FISP) has impacted the gap. Regression results show the probability of adopting modern maize was 12% lower for wives in male-headed households, and 11% lower for female household heads, than for male farmers. Receipt of subsidized input coupons had no discernible effect on modern maize adoption for male farmers. Receiving a subsidy for both seed and fertilizer increased the probability of modern maize cultivation by 222% for female household heads, suggesting the FISP has likely reduced the gender gap in adoption of modern maize in Malawi.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess Routeshybrid 99 citations 99 popularity Top 1% influence Top 10% impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!more_vert add ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2014Publisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Bekele Shiferaw; Menale Kassie; Moti Jaleta; Chilot Yirga;Bekele Shiferaw; Menale Kassie; Moti Jaleta; Chilot Yirga;This article evaluates the impact of the adoption of improved wheat varieties on food security using a recent nationally-representative dataset of over 2000 farm households in Ethiopia. We adopted endogenous switching regression treatment effects complemented with a binary propensity score matching methodology to test robustness and reduced selection bias stemming from both observed and unobserved characteristics. We expand this further with the generalized propensity score (GPS) approach to evaluate the effects of continuous treatment on the response of the outcome variables. We find a consistent result across models indicating that adoption increases food security and farm households that did adopt would also have benefited significantly had they adopted new varieties. This study supports the need for vital investments in agricultural research for major food staples widely consumed by the poor, and efforts to improve access to modern varieties and services. Policies that enhance diffusion and adoption of modern wheat varieties should be central to food security strategies in Ethiopia.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu330 citations 330 popularity Top 0.1% influence Top 1% impulse Top 1% Powered by BIP!more_vert add ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2012Publisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Rodney Lunduka; Monica Fisher; Sieglinde S. Snapp;Rodney Lunduka; Monica Fisher; Sieglinde S. Snapp;Abstract This study uses new data from a household survey (n = 179) in Mulanje District, Malawi to examine whether the observed adoption plateaus for modern maize varieties in Malawi partly reflect farmer interest in a diversity of maize seed attributes. Regression results for the study area indicate that specific attributes of different maize varieties are an important influence on their use. The benefits to growing hybrid maize appear to be yield and drought tolerance. Open pollinated varieties are selected by farmers who value early maturity. Local maize varieties are popular among farm households owing to a number of favourable processing and consumption characteristics: storability, poundability, flour-to-grain ratio, and taste. Further research using nationally representative data is needed to assess whether findings for Mulanje District can be generalized to Malawi as a whole. If future studies agree with the results herein then maize breeding research programs in Malawi should consider a diversity of traits beyond grain yield to encompass the range of production, processing, and consumption attributes that are valued by farmers.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu111 citations 111 popularity Top 1% influence Top 10% impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!more_vert add ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2012Publisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Solomon Asfaw; Bekele Shiferaw; Franklin Simtowe; Leslie Lipper;Solomon Asfaw; Bekele Shiferaw; Franklin Simtowe; Leslie Lipper;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.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2010Publisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Judit Szonyi; Eddy De Pauw; Roberto La Rovere; Aden Aw-Hassan;Judit Szonyi; Eddy De Pauw; Roberto La Rovere; Aden Aw-Hassan;This study presents advances in resource-based poverty mapping. It illustrates how agricultural income distribution maps can be generated at small pixel-level, providing an application of the approach in rural Syria. Census data on agriculture and population are disaggregated based on pixel-level agricultural productivity coefficients derived in a GIS environment. The approach, triangulated with survey results and compared with sub-national poverty maps, shows that the better-income areas of Syria are located in the irrigated and higher-rainfall areas, though lower-income pockets exist due to the presence of ecological and topographic factors or due to high population density. The method can be used for developing high-resolution, low cost maps for rapid detection of resource-driven poverty in low income countries where agriculture is a major source of rural income, and where poverty mapping is rarely undertaken due to the high costs involved.
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description Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2021Publisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Brian P. Mulenga; Hambulo Ngoma; Chewe Nkonde;Brian P. Mulenga; Hambulo Ngoma; Chewe Nkonde;Abstract With only 10 years before the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of Zero Hunger, the global community is in a race to address mounting food and nutrition insecurity among the over 820 million people in the World. This is more profound for developing countries like Zambia where food and nutrition insecurity remain huge development challenges. Output market participation by smallholder rural households has been touted as a possible pathway to improving dietary diversity in addition to production diversity. This study applied structural equation modeling (SEM) techniques to a nationally representative, two-wave household-level panel data of over 6000 rural smallholder farmers in Zambia to assess the extent to which participation in output markets affects dietary diversity and how this effect changed between 2015 and 2019. We measure dietary diversity using a household dietary diversity score (HDDS) and market participation using household commercialization index. We find that market participation enhances household dietary diversity, with the effect being stronger in 2019 than in 2015. Besides reinforcing the importance of market access and participation in improving household nutritional outcomes, our finding demonstrate the increasing role of markets in the nutrition of rural households. Another key result is that household production diversity improves dietary diversity. Taken together, these findings imply that nutrition sensitive agricultural interventions should concomitantly help improve market access and participation for smallholder farmers, and promote a broader food group diversification at the farm level.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2021 ItalyPublisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Amare M.; Abay K. A.; Tiberti L.; Chamberlin J.;Amare M.; Abay K. A.; Tiberti L.; Chamberlin J.;Abstract This paper combines pre-pandemic face-to-face survey data with follow up phone surveys collected in April-May 2020 to examine the implication of the COVID-19 pandemic on household food security and labor market participation outcomes in Nigeria. To examine these relationships and implications, we exploit spatial variation in exposure to COVID-19 related infections and lockdown measures, along with temporal differences in our outcomes of interest, using a difference-in-difference approach. We find that households exposed to higher COVID-19 case rates or mobility lockdowns experience a significant increase in measures of food insecurity. Examining possible transmission channels for this effect, we find that the spread of the pandemic is associated with significant reductions in labor market participation. For instance, lockdown measures are associated with 6–15 percentage points increase in households' experience of food insecurity. Similarly, lockdown measures are associated with 12 percentage points reduction in the probability of participation in non-farm business activities. These lockdown measures have limited implications on wage-related activities and farming activities. In terms of food security, households relying on non-farm businesses, poorer households, and those living in remote and conflicted-affected zones have experienced relatively larger deteriorations in food security. These findings can help inform immediate and medium-term policy responses, including social protection policies aiming at ameliorating the impacts of the pandemic.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess RoutesGreen hybrid 110 citations 110 popularity Top 1% influence Top 10% impulse Top 1% Powered by BIP!more_vert Flore (Florence Rese... arrow_drop_down Flore (Florence Research Repository); Food PolicyArticle . 2021 . Peer-reviewedLicense: CC BYFlore (Florence Research Repository)Article . 2021Data sources: Flore (Florence Research Repository)add ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2021Publisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Poole, Nigel; Donovan, Jason; Erenstein, Olaf;Poole, Nigel; Donovan, Jason; Erenstein, Olaf;Research linking agriculture and nutrition has evolved since the mid-20th century. The current focus is on child-stunting, dietary diversity and ‘nutrient-rich’ foods in recognition of the growing burdens of malnutrition and non-communicable diseases. This article concerns the global dietary and health contribution of major cereals, specifically maize and wheat, which are often considered not to be ‘nutrient-rich’ foods. Nevertheless, these cereals are major sources of dietary energy, of essential proteins and micronutrients, and diverse non-nutrient bioactive food components. Research on bioactives, and dietary fibre in particular, is somewhat ‘siloed’, with little attention paid by the agri-nutrition research community to the role of cereal bioactives in healthy diets, and the adverse health effects often arising through processing and manufacturing of cereals-based food products. We argue that the research agenda should embrace the whole nutritional contribution of the multiple dietary components of cereals towards addressing the triple burden of undernutrition, micronutrient malnutrition, overweight/obesity and non-communicable diseases. Agri-nutrition and development communities need to adopt a multidisciplinary and food systems research approach from farm to metabolism. Agriculture researchers should collaborate with other food systems stakeholders on nutrition-related challenges in cereal production, processing and manufacturing, and food waste and losses. Cereal and food scientists should also collaborate with social scientists to better understand the impacts on diets of the political economy of the food industry, and the diverse factors which influence local and global dietary transitions, consumer behavioural choices, dietary change, and the assessment and acceptance of novel and nutritious cereal-based products. Highlights • Current agri-nutrition research focuses on micronutrient malnutrition and stunting. • The dietary contribution of many essential bioactive food components is understated. • Cereals are rich in bioactives such as dietary fibre that have major health benefits. • Research should address the full health benefits of cereals like maize and wheat. • Agri-nutrition studies should be multidisciplinary and whole food systems-oriented.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess RoutesGreen hybrid 102 citations 102 popularity Top 1% influence Top 10% impulse Top 1% Powered by BIP!visibility 12visibility views 12 download downloads 92 Powered bymore_vert Europe PubMed Centra... arrow_drop_down Europe PubMed CentralArticle . 2020Full-Text: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC7499093Data sources: PubMed CentralCORE (RIOXX-UK Aggregator)Article . 2021License: CC BY NC NDData sources: CORE (RIOXX-UK Aggregator)add ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2020Publisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Paswel Marenya; Gebrelibanos Gebremariam; Moti Jaleta; Dil Bahadur Rahut;Paswel Marenya; Gebrelibanos Gebremariam; Moti Jaleta; Dil Bahadur Rahut;Abstract In addition to experimental data, using information collected from farmers is vital to assess the performance of candidate farming technologies. The latter provides the basis for farmers’ assessments and adoption decisions. Using detailed georeferenced plot and household level data from Ethiopia, this paper estimates the impact of a set of sustainability-enhancing agronomic practices on maize yields and implied net maize income with the aid of multinomial endogenous regime-switching regression that corrects for unobserved heterogeneity. The treatments’ effects on yield ranged from 29.5% for the fertilizer-dominant strategy to 88% in the case of fertilizer, maize-legume diversification, and soil and water conservation combinations. Second, while the impacts of the agronomic packages are significant in almost all states of the world, there were considerable heterogeneity effects conditioned on observed rainfall deviations from the historical average with levels effects of up to 92% and heterogeneity effects of 33–64%. The heterogeneous and rainfall-conditioned impacts point to the role of local biophysical modifiers of the impacts of agricultural practices. Investments in context-appropriate adaptation in agricultural research and extension is suggested.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2020Publisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Chiara Cazzuffi; Andrew McKay; Emilie Perge;Chiara Cazzuffi; Andrew McKay; Emilie Perge;Abstract Commercialisation by smallholder farmers has played a major role in agricultural development in many Asian countries, and while there are assumptions that this has led to welfare improvement, in fact there is relatively little evidence on this question. In this paper we use high quality panel data to examine the welfare impact of agricultural commercialisation in a leading Asian producer, Vietnam. We use the five-wave Vietnam Access to Resources Household Survey (VARHS) panel data set from 2008 to 16, three measures of household welfare and create commercialisation indexes in relation to all crops and to rice specifically. We find a significant positive relationship of commercialisation with household asset accumulation, but a negative association with consumption expenditure.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2014Publisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Fisher, Monica; Kandiwa, Vongai;Fisher, Monica; Kandiwa, Vongai;Abstract Nationally representative data for Malawi were used to measure the gender gap in adoption of modern maize and to investigate how, if at all, Malawi’s Farm Input Subsidy Program (FISP) has impacted the gap. Regression results show the probability of adopting modern maize was 12% lower for wives in male-headed households, and 11% lower for female household heads, than for male farmers. Receipt of subsidized input coupons had no discernible effect on modern maize adoption for male farmers. Receiving a subsidy for both seed and fertilizer increased the probability of modern maize cultivation by 222% for female household heads, suggesting the FISP has likely reduced the gender gap in adoption of modern maize in Malawi.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2014Publisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Bekele Shiferaw; Menale Kassie; Moti Jaleta; Chilot Yirga;Bekele Shiferaw; Menale Kassie; Moti Jaleta; Chilot Yirga;This article evaluates the impact of the adoption of improved wheat varieties on food security using a recent nationally-representative dataset of over 2000 farm households in Ethiopia. We adopted endogenous switching regression treatment effects complemented with a binary propensity score matching methodology to test robustness and reduced selection bias stemming from both observed and unobserved characteristics. We expand this further with the generalized propensity score (GPS) approach to evaluate the effects of continuous treatment on the response of the outcome variables. We find a consistent result across models indicating that adoption increases food security and farm households that did adopt would also have benefited significantly had they adopted new varieties. This study supports the need for vital investments in agricultural research for major food staples widely consumed by the poor, and efforts to improve access to modern varieties and services. Policies that enhance diffusion and adoption of modern wheat varieties should be central to food security strategies in Ethiopia.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu330 citations 330 popularity Top 0.1% influence Top 1% impulse Top 1% Powered by BIP!more_vert add ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2012Publisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Rodney Lunduka; Monica Fisher; Sieglinde S. Snapp;Rodney Lunduka; Monica Fisher; Sieglinde S. Snapp;Abstract This study uses new data from a household survey (n = 179) in Mulanje District, Malawi to examine whether the observed adoption plateaus for modern maize varieties in Malawi partly reflect farmer interest in a diversity of maize seed attributes. Regression results for the study area indicate that specific attributes of different maize varieties are an important influence on their use. The benefits to growing hybrid maize appear to be yield and drought tolerance. Open pollinated varieties are selected by farmers who value early maturity. Local maize varieties are popular among farm households owing to a number of favourable processing and consumption characteristics: storability, poundability, flour-to-grain ratio, and taste. Further research using nationally representative data is needed to assess whether findings for Mulanje District can be generalized to Malawi as a whole. If future studies agree with the results herein then maize breeding research programs in Malawi should consider a diversity of traits beyond grain yield to encompass the range of production, processing, and consumption attributes that are valued by farmers.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu111 citations 111 popularity Top 1% influence Top 10% impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!more_vert add ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2012Publisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Solomon Asfaw; Bekele Shiferaw; Franklin Simtowe; Leslie Lipper;Solomon Asfaw; Bekele Shiferaw; Franklin Simtowe; Leslie Lipper;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.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess Routesbronze 384 citations 384 popularity Top 0.1% influence Top 1% impulse Top 1% Powered by BIP!more_vert add ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2010Publisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Judit Szonyi; Eddy De Pauw; Roberto La Rovere; Aden Aw-Hassan;Judit Szonyi; Eddy De Pauw; Roberto La Rovere; Aden Aw-Hassan;This study presents advances in resource-based poverty mapping. It illustrates how agricultural income distribution maps can be generated at small pixel-level, providing an application of the approach in rural Syria. Census data on agriculture and population are disaggregated based on pixel-level agricultural productivity coefficients derived in a GIS environment. The approach, triangulated with survey results and compared with sub-national poverty maps, shows that the better-income areas of Syria are located in the irrigated and higher-rainfall areas, though lower-income pockets exist due to the presence of ecological and topographic factors or due to high population density. The method can be used for developing high-resolution, low cost maps for rapid detection of resource-driven poverty in low income countries where agriculture is a major source of rural income, and where poverty mapping is rarely undertaken due to the high costs involved.
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