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Dryland Cereals and Household Food Security in Tanzania: Potential and Constraints of Improved Sorghum Cultivars Socioeconomics Discussion Paper Series 13

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Title Dryland Cereals and Household Food Security in Tanzania: Potential and Constraints of Improved Sorghum Cultivars Socioeconomics Discussion Paper Series 13
 
Creator Schipmann-Schwarze, C
Muange, E
Orr, A
Mafuru, J
 
Subject Sorghum
 
Description More than one third of the population in Africa is still facing undernourishment and malnutrition. While poor and food-insecure people are most often living in unfavorable agricultural zones, such as semi-arid areas, only few studies have assessed the potential of well adapted dryland cereals to contribute to local food security. Here, we analyze the case of sorghum in Tanzania, and particularly focus on the role of improved sorghum cultivars. Using survey data from smallholder farmers and econometric techniques, we show that sorghum contributes to the food supply of a household. Despite the promise of higher yields and better resistance of improved sorghum cultivars to some biotic and abiotic stresses, adoption rates are, however, still low. Our results indicate that access to information and diversified networks constitute serious adoption constraints. National extension systems are a major bottleneck in overcoming such constraints
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2013
 
Type Socioeconomics Discussion Paper Series
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/7548/1/ISEDPS_13.pdf
Schipmann-Schwarze, C and Muange, E and Orr, A and Mafuru, J (2013) Dryland Cereals and Household Food Security in Tanzania: Potential and Constraints of Improved Sorghum Cultivars Socioeconomics Discussion Paper Series 13. [Socioeconomics Discussion Paper Series]