The poverty impacts of improved cowpea varieties in Nigeria: A counterfactual analysis

Adoption of improved agricultural technologies has long been recognized as critical for reducing poverty through increased productivity, incomes, and asset accumulation. Using a nationally representative survey data from a sample of over 1500 households in Nigeria, this paper evaluates the impacts o...

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Autores principales: Manda, Julius, Alene, Arega D., Tufa, Adane H., Abdoulaye, Tahirou, Wossen, Tesfamicheal, Chikoye, David, Manyong, Victor
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pergamon Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6694751/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31582870
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.05.027
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author Manda, Julius
Alene, Arega D.
Tufa, Adane H.
Abdoulaye, Tahirou
Wossen, Tesfamicheal
Chikoye, David
Manyong, Victor
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Alene, Arega D.
Tufa, Adane H.
Abdoulaye, Tahirou
Wossen, Tesfamicheal
Chikoye, David
Manyong, Victor
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description Adoption of improved agricultural technologies has long been recognized as critical for reducing poverty through increased productivity, incomes, and asset accumulation. Using a nationally representative survey data from a sample of over 1500 households in Nigeria, this paper evaluates the impacts of adoption of improved cowpea varieties on income and asset poverty reduction using an endogenous switching regression model. The results showed that adoption of improved cowpea varieties increased per capita household income and asset ownership by 17 and 24 percentage points, respectively. The results based on the observed and counterfactual income and asset distributions further showed that adoption reduced both income poverty and asset poverty by 5 percentage points. The paper concludes with a discussion of the policy options for increasing adoption and impacts of improved cowpea varieties in Nigeria.
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spelling pubmed-66947512019-10-01 The poverty impacts of improved cowpea varieties in Nigeria: A counterfactual analysis Manda, Julius Alene, Arega D. Tufa, Adane H. Abdoulaye, Tahirou Wossen, Tesfamicheal Chikoye, David Manyong, Victor World Dev Article Adoption of improved agricultural technologies has long been recognized as critical for reducing poverty through increased productivity, incomes, and asset accumulation. Using a nationally representative survey data from a sample of over 1500 households in Nigeria, this paper evaluates the impacts of adoption of improved cowpea varieties on income and asset poverty reduction using an endogenous switching regression model. The results showed that adoption of improved cowpea varieties increased per capita household income and asset ownership by 17 and 24 percentage points, respectively. The results based on the observed and counterfactual income and asset distributions further showed that adoption reduced both income poverty and asset poverty by 5 percentage points. The paper concludes with a discussion of the policy options for increasing adoption and impacts of improved cowpea varieties in Nigeria. Pergamon Press 2019-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6694751/ /pubmed/31582870 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.05.027 Text en © 2019 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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