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Wossen T, Abdoulaye T, Alene A, et al. Impacts of extension access and cooperative membership on technology adoption and household welfare. J Rural Stud. 2017;54:223-233doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.06.022.
Wossen, T., Abdoulaye, T., Alene, A., Haile, M. G., Feleke, S., Olanrewaju, A., & Manyong, V. (2017). Impacts of extension access and cooperative membership on technology adoption and household welfare. Journal of rural studies, 54223-233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.06.022
Wossen, Tesfamicheal, et al. "Impacts of extension access and cooperative membership on technology adoption and household welfare." Journal of rural studies vol. 54 (2017): 223-233. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.06.022
Wossen T, Abdoulaye T, Alene A, Haile MG, Feleke S, Olanrewaju A, Manyong V. Impacts of extension access and cooperative membership on technology adoption and household welfare. J Rural Stud. 2017 Aug;54:223-233. doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.06.022. PMID: 28989229; PMCID: PMC5614096.
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J Rural Stud. 2017 Aug;54:223-233. doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.06.022.

Impacts of extension access and cooperative membership on technology adoption and household welfare.

Journal of rural studies

Tesfamicheal Wossen, Tahirou Abdoulaye, Arega Alene, Mekbib G Haile, Shiferaw Feleke, Adetunji Olanrewaju, Victor Manyong

Affiliations

  1. International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Abuja, Nigeria.
  2. International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria.
  3. International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Lilongwe, Malawi.
  4. Center for Development Research (ZEF), Bonn University, Germany.
  5. International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

PMID: 28989229 PMCID: PMC5614096 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.06.022

Abstract

This paper examines the impacts of access to extension services and cooperative membership on technology adoption, asset ownership and poverty using household-level data from rural Nigeria. Using different matching techniques and endogenous switching regression approach, we find that both extension access and cooperative membership have a positive and statistically significant effect on technology adoption and household welfare. Moreover, we find that both extension access and cooperative membership have heterogeneous impacts. In particular, we find evidence of a positive selection as the average treatment effects of extension access and cooperative membership are higher for farmers with the highest propensity to access extension and cooperative services. The impact of extension services on poverty reduction and of cooperatives on technology adoption is significantly stronger for smallholders with access to formal credit than for those without access. This implies that expanding rural financial markets can maximize the potential positive impacts of extension and cooperative services on farmers' productivity and welfare.

Keywords: Adoption; Cooperatives; Extension access; Impact evaluation; Nigeria; Welfare

References

  1. Eval Program Plann. 2015 Apr;49:10-8 - PubMed

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