Journal
EUROPEAN REVIEW OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
Volume 45, Issue 4, Pages 471-503Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/erae/jby001
Keywords
sub-Saharan Africa; Ethiopia; row planting; impact evaluation; randomised controlled trial
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Funding
- Ethiopia Strategy Support Program (ESSP)
- United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
- Department for International Development (DFID) of the government of the United Kingdom
- European Union (EU)
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Improved technologies are increasingly promoted to farmers in sub-Saharan Africa to address low agricultural productivity. There is, however, a lack of evidence on how adoption affects farmers' labour use, gender roles and profitability. This paper analyses the farm level impacts of the recently introduced row planting technology in teff production in Ethiopia. Using a randomised controlled trial, we show that row planting significantly increases the total labour requirement and allocation but not teff yields, resulting in a substantial drop in labour productivity. There is no significant profitability effect at the farm level, seemingly explaining the limited success in upscaling the programme.
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