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The impact of seed vouchers on poverty reduction among smallholder rice farmers in Nigeria

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Title The impact of seed vouchers on poverty reduction among smallholder rice farmers in Nigeria
 
Creator Awotide, B.A.
Karimov, A.
Diagne, A.
Nakelse, T.
 
Subject seeds
poverty
farmers
rice
research
 
Description In response to the global food crisis of 2008, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded an emergency rice initiative (ERI) program to boost rice production in Nigeria. The supplementary seed voucher program, implemented alongside the ERI adopted a randomized control trial to grant randomly selected farmers access to subsidized certified improved rice seed using the seed voucher system (SVS). In this study, we provide a consistent estimate of the impact of the SVS on Poverty reduction, using mixed methodologies such as inverse propensity score weighing (IPSW) and the local average treatment effect (LATE) estimation techniques. Results show that the SVS has a positive and statistically significant impact on annual household income and per capita consumption expenditure. This study shows that availability of good quality seed at an affordable price can raise agricultural productivity, increase household income and contribute to poverty reduction.
 
Date 2013-11
2021-11-09T08:59:47Z
2021-11-09T08:59:47Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Awotide, B.A. Karimov, A. Diagne, A. Nakelse, T.The impact of seed vouchers on poverty reduction among smallholder rice farmers in Nigeria.Agricultural Economics.2013, Volume 44:647–658.
1574-0862
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/115901
https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12079
 
Language en
 
Rights Other
Limited Access
 
Format p. 647-658
 
Publisher Wiley
 
Source Agricultural Economics