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Adoption and impact of improved groundnut varieties on household food security in Nigeria

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666154323003241?via%3Dihub
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafr.2023.100817
 
Title Adoption and impact of improved groundnut varieties on household food security in Nigeria
 
Creator Melesse, M B
Miriti, P
Muricho, G
Ojiewo, C O
Afari-Sefa, V
 
Subject Nigeria
Groundnut
Food Security
 
Description Improved agricultural technologies are promoted as cost-effective and sustainable ways of improving rural households’ food security and reducing poverty in developing countries. This study evaluates the relationship between improved groundnut varieties (IGVs) and household food security using detailed household and plot level data from a sample of over 1300 farm households in Northern Nigeria. Endogenous switching regression models are employed to control for potential endogeneity biases. Results show that about 30 % of groundnut plots are planted with improved varieties, and the adoption of IGVs significantly increases the likelihood of household per capita groundnut consumption by about 13 % and reduces the probability of households’
vulnerability to food (access) insecurity by 22 %. Counterfactual analyses show that non-adopting households
could have enjoyed comparable benefits had they adopted IGVs. These results suggest that development interventions aimed at improving the diffusion and impacts of IGVs in Nigeria need to target farmers’ access to information about the technologies while developing groundnut seed systems to make quality seeds readily available to smallholder farmers at affordable prices.
 
Publisher Elsevier B. V.
 
Date 2023-10-16
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/12232/1/Journal%20of%20Agriculture%20and%20Food%20Research_14_1-11_2023.pdf
Melesse, M B and Miriti, P and Muricho, G and Ojiewo, C O and Afari-Sefa, V (2023) Adoption and impact of improved groundnut varieties on household food security in Nigeria. Journal of Agriculture and Food Research, 14. pp. 1-11. ISSN 2666-1543