Journal
EUROPEAN REVIEW OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
Volume 49, Issue 3, Pages 668-695Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/erae/jbab023
Keywords
adoption; improved technologies; transaction costs; correlated random effects; panel data
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- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation [OPP1114827]
- GIZ/Fund for International Agricultural Research (FIA)
- CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)
- CGIAR
- German Research Foundation (DFG) [328966760-TRR 228]
- Foundation Fiat Panis
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Enhancing agricultural productivity through the adoption of improved technologies, especially through increased commercialisation, is a credible pathway to economic development and poverty reduction. Our study finds that the adoption of improved chickpea has a significant positive effect on smallholder commercialisation in Ethiopia, supporting the role of transaction cost in driving market participation.
Enhancing agricultural productivity through the adoption of improved technologies presents a credible pathway to economic development and poverty reduction especially through increased commercialisation of production. We used a triple hurdle (TH) model to estimate the production and commercialisation of smallholder farmers in Ethiopia. In doing so, we account for the adoption of improved Cicer arietinum (chickpea) varieties on commercialisation using a three-wave panel data set. We estimate a correlated random effect model with a control function and find the adoption of improved chickpea to have a significant positive effect on smallholder commercialisation. Our findings that are robust over different specifications and identification strategies also support the role of transaction cost in driving market participation (MP). Finally, we argue that the TH model is a better fit to the commonly used double hurdle model for MP, when not all households in a population produce a particular crop.
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