Melesse, M B and Miriti, P and Muricho, G and Ojiewo, C O and Afari-Sefa, V (2023) Adoption and impact of improved groundnut varieties on household food security in Nigeria. Journal of Agriculture and Food Research, 14. pp. 1-11. ISSN 2666-1543
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Abstract
Improved agricultural technologies are promoted as cost-effective and sustainable ways of improving rural households’ food security and reducing poverty in developing countries. This study evaluates the relationship between improved groundnut varieties (IGVs) and household food security using detailed household and plot level data from a sample of over 1300 farm households in Northern Nigeria. Endogenous switching regression models are employed to control for potential endogeneity biases. Results show that about 30 % of groundnut plots are planted with improved varieties, and the adoption of IGVs significantly increases the likelihood of household per capita groundnut consumption by about 13 % and reduces the probability of households’ vulnerability to food (access) insecurity by 22 %. Counterfactual analyses show that non-adopting households could have enjoyed comparable benefits had they adopted IGVs. These results suggest that development interventions aimed at improving the diffusion and impacts of IGVs in Nigeria need to target farmers’ access to information about the technologies while developing groundnut seed systems to make quality seeds readily available to smallholder farmers at affordable prices.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Divisions: | Global Research Program - Enabling Systems Transformation Research Program : East & Southern Africa |
| CRP: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Improved groundnut variety, Groundnut consumption, Food security, Endogenous switching regression, Nigeria |
| Subjects: | Others > Nigeria Mandate crops > Groundnut Others > Food Security |
| Depositing User: | Mr Nagaraju T |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Oct 2023 04:26 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Oct 2023 04:26 |
| URI: | http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/12232 |
| Official URL: | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/... |
| Projects: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Funders: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Acknowledgement: | The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support for this study from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation through the Tropical Legumes Projects (#OPP1114827). |
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