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WORLD DEVELOPMENT
Volume 64, Issue -, Pages 843-859Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.07.003
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impact assessment; Farmer Field Schools; food security; poverty; Tanzania; Africa
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We estimate the impact of a Farmer Field School intervention among small-scale farmers in northern Tanzania on two main development objectives: food security and poverty. We employ a series of evaluation methodologies, including a Quasi-Difference-in-Difference setup, to account for potential selection into the project, despite lack of baseline data. We find strong positive effects on food security, but no effect on poverty. Investigating possible mechanisms for this result shows that reallocation of labor resources toward own agricultural production and improved production smoothing may have led to improved food security while poverty remained unaffected. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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