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Agricultural Extension and Technology Adoption for Food Security: Evidence from Uganda

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This paper evaluates causal impacts of a large-scale agricultural extension program for smallholder women farmers on food security in Uganda through a regression discontinuity design that exploits an arbitrary distance-to-branch threshold for village program eligibility. We find eligible farmers experienced significant increases in agricultural production, savings and wage income, which lead to improved food security. Given minimal changes in the adoption of relatively expensive inputs including HYV seeds, these gains are mainly attributed to increased usage of improved cultivation methods that are relatively costless. These results highlight the role of improved basic methods in boosting agricultural productivity among poor farmers.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 9206

Classification
Wirtschaft
Economic Development: Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products
Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: General
Subject
agriculture
extension
agricultural technology adoption
food security
regression discontinuity
Uganda
labor markets in developing economies

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Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Pan, Yao
Smith, Stephen C.
Sulaiman, Munshi
Event
Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
(when)
2015

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Pan, Yao
  • Smith, Stephen C.
  • Sulaiman, Munshi
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Time of origin

  • 2015

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