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creators_name: Verkaart, S
creators_name: Munyua, B G
creators_name: Mausch, K
creators_name: Michler, J D
icrisatcreators_name: Verkaart, S
icrisatcreators_name: Munyua, B G
icrisatcreators_name: Mausch, K
icrisatcreators_name: Michler, J D
affiliation: ICRISAT (Nairobi)
affiliation: Development Economics Group, Wageningen University & Research (Wageningen)
affiliation: Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois (Illinois)
affiliation: ICRISAT (Bulawayo)
country: Kenya
country: The Netherlands
country: USA
country: Zimbabwe
title: Welfare impacts of improved chickpea adoption: A pathway for rural development in Ethiopia?
ispublished: pub
subjects: s1.1
subjects: s11
subjects: s28
subjects: s54
divisions: CRPS5
full_text_status: public
keywords: Improved chickpea; Technology adoption; Poverty; Control function; Ethiopia; Chickpea
note: We are grateful to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, ICRISAT
and the Netherlands Junior Professional Officer (JPO) program
for the financial support of this study. We thank the Debre Zeit
Agricultural Research Center (DZARC) of the Ethiopian Institute
of Agricultural Research (EIAR) for implementing the household
surveys. Erwin Bulte, Kees Burger, Ken Giller and Anna Josephson
provided useful comments on the paper. We are responsible for
any remaining mistakes.
abstract: We analyse the impact of improved chickpea adoption on welfare in Ethiopia using three rounds of panel data. First, we estimate the determinants of improved chickpea adoption using a double hurdle model. We apply a control function approach with correlated random effects to control for possible endogeneity resulting from access to improved seed and technology transfer activities. To instrument for these variables we develop novel distance weighted measures of a household’s neighbours’ access to improved seed and technology transfer activities. Second, we estimate the impact of area under improved chickpea cultivation on household income and poverty. We apply a fixed effects instrumental variables approach where we use the predicted area under cultivation from the double hurdle model as an instrument for observed area under cultivation. We find that improved chickpea adoption significantly increases household income while also reducing household poverty. Finally, we disaggregate results by landholding to explore whether the impact of adoption has heterogeneous effects. Adoption favoured all but the largest landholders, for who the new technology did not have a significant impact on income. Overall, increasing access to improved chickpea appears a promising pathway for rural development in Ethiopia’s chickpea growing regions.
date: 2017-01
date_type: published
publication: Food Policy
volume: 66
publisher: Elsevier
pagerange: 50-61
id_number: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2016.11.007
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0306-9192
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2016.11.007
related_url_url: https://scholar.google.co.in/scholar?q=Welfare+impacts+of+improved+chickpea+adoption%3A+A+pathway+for+rural+development+in+Ethiopia%3F&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5
related_url_type: pub
funders: Open Access funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
citation:   Verkaart, S and Munyua, B G and Mausch, K and Michler, J D  (2017) Welfare impacts of improved chickpea adoption: A pathway for rural development in Ethiopia?  Food Policy, 66.  pp. 50-61.  ISSN 0306-9192     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/9936/1/1-s2.0-S0306919216305371-main.pdf