- Title
- Improved maize adoption and impacts on farm household welfare: Evidence from rural Ethiopia
- Creator
- Geffersa, Abebayehu Girma; Agbola, Frank W.; Mahmood, Amir
- Relation
- Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics Vol. 66, Issue 4, p. 860-886
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8489.12489
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- The use of improved crop varieties can increase agricultural productivity and enhance the welfare of farmers. This study examined whether the adoption of improved maize varieties (IMV) is associated with the increased welfare of farmers in rural Ethiopia. A panel data set with 1886 observations collected in three waves from 2009/10 to 2014/15 were used for the analysis. The adoption decision was modelled using a double-hurdle model, and the welfare effect of IMV adoption was estimated using a fixed-effects instrumental variable approach. Our findings reveal that IMV affects the welfare of farmers. Specifically, we found that IMV adoption increases households' income, asset ownership and maize consumption while also reducing income poverty. The poverty estimates indicate that a 10% increase in the area allocated to IMV was associated with a 4.79% reduction in the probability of being below the $1.90 poverty line. However, the poverty-reducing effect of IMV adoption was heterogeneous across households, with the most pronounced effect experienced by households with extensive landholdings. Our findings suggest that facilitating access to IMV and land under cultivation can effectively improve farmers' welfare and reduce poverty in rural Ethiopia.
- Subject
- Ethiopia; household welfare; Sustainable Development Goals; improved maize; rural poverty; technology adoption; SDG 1; SDG 2; SDG 8; SDG 10; SDG 17
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1480717
- Identifier
- uon:50554
- Identifier
- ISSN:1364-985X
- Rights
- © 2022 The Authors. The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Inc. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
- Language
- eng
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