Scaling-up agricultural technologies: Who should be targeted?

The effects of agricultural technology adoption on farm performance have been studied extensively but with limited information on who should be targeted during scaling-up. We adopt the newly defined marginal treatment effect approach in examining how farmers’ resource endowment and unobserved factor...

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Autores principales: Bedi, S.M., Azzarri, Carlo, Kotu, Bekele Hundie, Kornher, L., Braun, Joachim von
Formato: Journal Article
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Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/118106
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author Bedi, S.M.
Azzarri, Carlo
Kotu, Bekele Hundie
Kornher, L.
Braun, Joachim von
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Kornher, L.
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description The effects of agricultural technology adoption on farm performance have been studied extensively but with limited information on who should be targeted during scaling-up. We adopt the newly defined marginal treatment effect approach in examining how farmers’ resource endowment and unobserved factors influence the marginal benefits of adopting sustainable intensification (SI) practices. We estimate both the marginal and average benefits of adopting SI practices and predict which marginal farm household entrants will benefit the most at scale. Findings indicate that farmers’ resource endowment and unobserved factors affect the marginal benefits of adopting SI practices, which also influence maize yield and net returns among adopters. Finally, results imply that scaling up SI practices will favour farm household entrants associated with the lowest probability of adoption based on observed socioeconomic characteristics.
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spelling CGSpace1181062025-04-17T08:26:12Z Scaling-up agricultural technologies: Who should be targeted? Bedi, S.M. Azzarri, Carlo Kotu, Bekele Hundie Kornher, L. Braun, Joachim von scaling-up agricultural innovation sustainable intensification intensification farming systems maize farmers information households yields technology inorganic fertilizers scaling up capacity development sustainability agriculture agricultural technologies The effects of agricultural technology adoption on farm performance have been studied extensively but with limited information on who should be targeted during scaling-up. We adopt the newly defined marginal treatment effect approach in examining how farmers’ resource endowment and unobserved factors influence the marginal benefits of adopting sustainable intensification (SI) practices. We estimate both the marginal and average benefits of adopting SI practices and predict which marginal farm household entrants will benefit the most at scale. Findings indicate that farmers’ resource endowment and unobserved factors affect the marginal benefits of adopting SI practices, which also influence maize yield and net returns among adopters. Finally, results imply that scaling up SI practices will favour farm household entrants associated with the lowest probability of adoption based on observed socioeconomic characteristics. 2022-08-06 2022-02-14T07:30:45Z 2022-02-14T07:30:45Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/118106 en https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104682 https://doi.org/10.3390/su12010216 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355770X18000323 https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12336 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/75528 Open Access Oxford University Press Mellon Bedi, S., Azzarri, C., Hundie Kotu, B., Kornher, L., & von Braun, J. (2021). Scaling-up agricultural technologies: who should be targeted? In European Review of Agricultural Economics (Vol. 49, Issue 4, pp. 857–875). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbab054
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capacity development
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Bedi, S.M.
Azzarri, Carlo
Kotu, Bekele Hundie
Kornher, L.
Braun, Joachim von
Scaling-up agricultural technologies: Who should be targeted?
title Scaling-up agricultural technologies: Who should be targeted?
title_full Scaling-up agricultural technologies: Who should be targeted?
title_fullStr Scaling-up agricultural technologies: Who should be targeted?
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title_short Scaling-up agricultural technologies: Who should be targeted?
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intensification
farming systems
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farmers
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scaling up
capacity development
sustainability
agriculture
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