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Livelihood Impacts of Improved Cassava Varieties in Uganda

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Title Livelihood Impacts of Improved Cassava Varieties in Uganda
 
Creator Beine, Peter
 
Contributor Feleke, Shiferaw
Alene, Arega
Tahirou, Abdoulaye
Assfaw, Tesfamicheal
Manyong, Victor
 
Subject impact
endogenous switching regression
adoption
productivity and household welfare
Cassava
 
Description In Uganda, smallholder cassava farmers largely depend on unregulated, informal cassava seed sources that normally operate without inspection and certification. As a result, the use of latently diseased planting materials had thrived unabated in the country. However, since recently, a growing number of farmers have been using certified planting materials of improved cassava varieties (ICVs) following the establishment of a community-based commercialized seed system called the Cassava Seed Entrepreneurship (CSE) initiative. The planting materials produced by the CSE initiative are subject to inspection and certification by the mandated authorities. In this article, we seek to demonstrate whether certification of planting materials of ICVs has led to improved livelihood through increased cassava productivity. To this end, we applied the endogenous switching regression model (ESR). The data used in the study came from a representative sample of 609 households in the major cassava growing regions of Uganda. The results show that adoption of certified planting materials of ICVs has statistically significant positive effects on cassava productivity and household welfare, pointimg to the need for policy support aimed at increasing and sustaining public investments in variety genetic improvement, seed inspection and certification
 
Date 2019-10-16
2021-05-19T18:30:29Z
2021-05-19T18:30:29Z
 
Type Report
 
Identifier https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/13114
https://mel.cgiar.org/reporting/download/hash/c9ec57ca4dae4608de70d50ef3cf889f
Peter Beine, Shiferaw Feleke, Arega Alene, Abdoulaye Tahirou, Tesfamicheal Assfaw, Victor Manyong. (16/10/2019). Livelihood Impacts of Improved Cassava Varieties in Uganda. Ibadan, Nigeria: International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA).
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/13114
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Language en
 
Rights All right reserved
 
Format PDF
 
Publisher International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)