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What is the True Impact of Improved Cassava Varieties in Nigeria?

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Title What is the True Impact of Improved Cassava Varieties in Nigeria?
 
Creator CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council
 
Subject income
farmers
technology
impacts
welfare
research
food
tropical agriculture
agriculture
varieties
adoption
productivity
cassava
yields
 
Description 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).”
 
Date 2018-02
2023-02-25T17:09:15Z
2023-02-25T17:09:15Z
 
Type Brief
 
Identifier 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
 
Language en
 
Rights Open Access
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council