A new approach for cost-benefit analysis of innovations to enhance smallholder farmers' resilience
Enhancing smallholder farmers’ resilience has become an important objective for innovations in agricultural development. Cost-benefit analyses (CBA) of such innovations are essential in guiding future investments in agricultural development, but existing CBA methods often face challenges embedding n...
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Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa
2022
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| author | Kramer, Berber Timu, Anne G |
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| description | Enhancing smallholder farmers’ resilience has become an important objective for innovations in agricultural development. Cost-benefit analyses (CBA) of such innovations are essential in guiding future investments in agricultural development, but existing CBA methods often face challenges embedding non-monetary outcomes related to resilience. Resilience-enhancing innovations typically not only increase average incomes, but may also affect the variance of that income, and related welfare benefits depend on a beneficiary’s risk preferences. In addition, CBAs are typically unable to quantify costs and benefits in terms of gender-related outcomes such as women’s empowerment, or time use for women and men. This paper introduces a new approach to quantify costs and benefits related to such outcomes and demonstrates the approach using a case study of climate information services in Ghana. We argue that this is a more comprehensive method for impact assessment of innovations to enhance smallholder farmers’ resilience, enabling evidence-based investment prioritization. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1270242025-11-11T17:10:02Z A new approach for cost-benefit analysis of innovations to enhance smallholder farmers' resilience Kramer, Berber Timu, Anne G climate agriculture climate-smart agriculture smallholders farmers Enhancing smallholder farmers’ resilience has become an important objective for innovations in agricultural development. Cost-benefit analyses (CBA) of such innovations are essential in guiding future investments in agricultural development, but existing CBA methods often face challenges embedding non-monetary outcomes related to resilience. Resilience-enhancing innovations typically not only increase average incomes, but may also affect the variance of that income, and related welfare benefits depend on a beneficiary’s risk preferences. In addition, CBAs are typically unable to quantify costs and benefits in terms of gender-related outcomes such as women’s empowerment, or time use for women and men. This paper introduces a new approach to quantify costs and benefits related to such outcomes and demonstrates the approach using a case study of climate information services in Ghana. We argue that this is a more comprehensive method for impact assessment of innovations to enhance smallholder farmers’ resilience, enabling evidence-based investment prioritization. 2022-12 2023-01-13T01:47:54Z 2023-01-13T01:47:54Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/127024 en Open Access application/pdf Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa Kramer B, Timu Anne. 2022. A new approach for cost-benefit analysis of innovations to enhance smallholder farmers' resilience. AICCRA Working Paper No.6. Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA). |
| spellingShingle | climate agriculture climate-smart agriculture smallholders farmers Kramer, Berber Timu, Anne G A new approach for cost-benefit analysis of innovations to enhance smallholder farmers' resilience |
| title | A new approach for cost-benefit analysis of innovations to enhance smallholder farmers' resilience |
| title_full | A new approach for cost-benefit analysis of innovations to enhance smallholder farmers' resilience |
| title_fullStr | A new approach for cost-benefit analysis of innovations to enhance smallholder farmers' resilience |
| title_full_unstemmed | A new approach for cost-benefit analysis of innovations to enhance smallholder farmers' resilience |
| title_short | A new approach for cost-benefit analysis of innovations to enhance smallholder farmers' resilience |
| title_sort | new approach for cost benefit analysis of innovations to enhance smallholder farmers resilience |
| topic | climate agriculture climate-smart agriculture smallholders farmers |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/127024 |
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