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The impact of conservation agriculture adoption on farmer welfare : a comparative assessment of Kenya and Tanzania
Mini Dissertation (MSc (Agricultural Economics))--University of Pretoria, 2021.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/80802 The impact of conservation agriculture adoption on farmer welfare : a comparative assessment of Kenya and Tanzania Mungatana, Eric D. brian.mpande92@gmail.com Mpande, Brian Environmental and natural resource economics UCTD Mini Dissertation (MSc (Agricultural Economics))--University of Pretoria, 2021. This paper used propensity score matching (PSM) technique and pooled cross-sectional data from 407 observations with 256 conservation agriculture (CA) adopters and 151 non-adopters from Kenya and Tanzania, to test whether CA causally improves smallholder farmer’s welfare. We find mixed results showing that CA has a statistically significant and positive impact on climate change adaptation, drought resilience, total maize production, food security, number of meals per day, household income, accumulation of productive assets, reduction of gender inequalities, improving social cohesion, reduced forest area cleared and soil health improvement. CA has a negative and statistically significant impact on total agricultural yield, agricultural production costs, and number of food insecure months, CA has no impact on addressing agricultural calendar bottlenecks. Since the cross-country analysis showed higher CA adoption rates in Tanzania relative to Kenya, policy could increase adoption rates in the latter by focussing on the less educated farmers, increasing access to input markets, demonstrating benefits from CA projects, and improving farmer mastery of CA technologies. The findings shed light on the role of sustainable agricultural practices and highlight cross-country experiences of CA technologies in improving the welfare of smallholder farmers. Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development MSc (Agricultural Economics) Unrestricted 2021-07-13T10:42:39Z 2021-07-13T10:42:39Z 2021-09 2021-07 Mini Dissertation * S2021 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/80802 en © 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Environmental and natural resource economics UCTD The impact of conservation agriculture adoption on farmer welfare : a comparative assessment of Kenya and Tanzania |
| title | The impact of conservation agriculture adoption on farmer welfare : a comparative assessment of Kenya and Tanzania |
| title_full | The impact of conservation agriculture adoption on farmer welfare : a comparative assessment of Kenya and Tanzania |
| title_fullStr | The impact of conservation agriculture adoption on farmer welfare : a comparative assessment of Kenya and Tanzania |
| title_full_unstemmed | The impact of conservation agriculture adoption on farmer welfare : a comparative assessment of Kenya and Tanzania |
| title_short | The impact of conservation agriculture adoption on farmer welfare : a comparative assessment of Kenya and Tanzania |
| title_sort | impact of conservation agriculture adoption on farmer welfare a comparative assessment of kenya and tanzania |
| topic | Environmental and natural resource economics UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/80802 |