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The poverty impacts of improved cowpea varieties in Nigeria: a counterfactual analysis

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Title The poverty impacts of improved cowpea varieties in Nigeria: a counterfactual analysis
 
Creator Manda, J.
Alene, A.D.
Tufa, A.H.
Abdoulaye, Tahirou
Wossen, T.
Chikoye, David
Manyong, Victor M.
 
Subject cowpeas
varieties
income generation
nigeria
poverty
technology
 
Description Adoption of improved agricultural technologies has long been recognized as critical for reducing poverty through increased productivity, incomes, and asset accumulation. Using a nationally representative survey data from a sample of over 1500 households in Nigeria, this paper evaluates the impacts of adoption of improved cowpea varieties on income and asset poverty reduction using an endogenous switching regression model. The results showed that adoption of improved cowpea varieties increased per capita household income and asset ownership by 17 and 24 percentage points, respectively. The results based on the observed and counterfactual income and asset distributions further showed that adoption reduced both income poverty and asset poverty by 5 percentage points. The paper concludes with a discussion of the policy options for increasing adoption and impacts of improved cowpea varieties in Nigeria.
 
Date 2019-10
2019-07-01T15:08:22Z
2019-07-01T15:08:22Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Manda, J., Alene, A.D., Tufa, A.H., Abdoulaye, T., Wossen, T., Chikoye, D. & Manyong, V. (2019). The poverty impacts of improved cowpea varieties in Nigeria: a counterfactual analysis. World Development, 122, 261-271.
0305-750X
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/101978
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.05.027
SOCIAL SCIENCE & AGRICUSINESS
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 261-271
application/pdf
 
Publisher Elsevier BV
 
Source World Development