Evaluating the impact of improved maize varieties on food security in rural Tanzania : evidence from a continuous treatment approach
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ArticleLanguage: English Publication details: 2014. Netherlands : Springer,ISSN: - 1876-4525 (Online)
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| Article | CIMMYT Knowledge Center: John Woolston Library | CIMMYT Staff Publications Collection | CIS-7576 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available |
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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.
Maize CRP FP1 - Sustainable intensification of maize-based farming systems
Socioeconomics Program
Text in English
Springer|CIMMYT Informa No. 1878
Kassie, M. : Not in IRS Staff list but CIMMYT Affiliation
INT3096|INT3210
CIMMYT Staff Publications Collection
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