What is the True Impact of Improved Cassava Varieties in Nigeria?
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What is the True Impact of Improved Cassava Varieties in Nigeria?
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CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council
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income
farmers technology impacts welfare research food tropical agriculture agriculture varieties adoption productivity cassava yields |
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Nigerian farmers grow over 60 cassava varieties linked to the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) (http://www.iita.org/) research efforts. While yields and the area under cassava have increased over the past decade in Nigeria, there is a lack of rigorous impact evidence—this despite cassava being a major source of food and income. The extent to which an agricultural technology is adopted is a critical input to examine productivity and welfare impacts resulting from adoption. The Cassava Monitoring Survey, implemented by IITA and the National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI)-Nigeria, addresses three policy-relevant research questions: True adoption rate of improved cassava varieties in Nigeria; the effects of adoption on productivity and poverty; and the extent to which self-reported adoption status (versus DNA fingerprinting) over- or under-estimates these effects. This research was supported by ISPC-SPIA under the grant “Strengthening Impact Assessment in the CGIAR (SIAC) (https://cas.cgiar.org/spia/news/strengthening-impact-assessment-cgiar-siac-2013-2016).” |
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2018-02
2023-02-25T17:09:15Z 2023-02-25T17:09:15Z |
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Brief
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ISPC. (2018). What is the True Impact of Improved Cassava Varieties in Nigeria?, Brief N. 64. Rome: Independent Science and Partnership Council
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/128969 https://iaes.cgiar.org/node/11850 |
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en
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Open Access
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application/pdf
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CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council
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