Evaluating the impact of improved maize varieties on food security in rural Tanzania : evidence from a continuous treatment approach
Kassie, M.
Evaluating the impact of improved maize varieties on food security in rural Tanzania : evidence from a continuous treatment approach - Netherlands : Springer, 2014.
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This paper investigates impact heterogeneity in the adoption of improved maize varieties using data from rural Tanzania. We used a generalized propensity-score matching methodology, complemented with a parametric econometric method to check the robustness of results. We found a consistent result across models, indicating that adoption increased food security, and that the impact of adoption varied with the level of adoption. On average, an increase of one acre in the area allocated to improved maize varieties reduced the probabilities of chronic and transitory food insecurity from between 0.7 and 1.2 % and between 1.1 and 1.7 %, respectively. Policies that increase maize productivity and ease farmers? adoption constraints can ensure the allocation of more land to improved technologies and, in doing so, enhance the food security of households.
Text in English
1876-4525 (Online) 1876-4517
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-014-0332-x
Maize
Varieties
Food security
United Republic of Tanzania
Africa
Evaluating the impact of improved maize varieties on food security in rural Tanzania : evidence from a continuous treatment approach - Netherlands : Springer, 2014.
Peer review
This paper investigates impact heterogeneity in the adoption of improved maize varieties using data from rural Tanzania. We used a generalized propensity-score matching methodology, complemented with a parametric econometric method to check the robustness of results. We found a consistent result across models, indicating that adoption increased food security, and that the impact of adoption varied with the level of adoption. On average, an increase of one acre in the area allocated to improved maize varieties reduced the probabilities of chronic and transitory food insecurity from between 0.7 and 1.2 % and between 1.1 and 1.7 %, respectively. Policies that increase maize productivity and ease farmers? adoption constraints can ensure the allocation of more land to improved technologies and, in doing so, enhance the food security of households.
Text in English
1876-4525 (Online) 1876-4517
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-014-0332-x
Maize
Varieties
Food security
United Republic of Tanzania
Africa