The impact of adopting stress ‐tolerant maize on maize yield, maize income, and food security in Tanzania

The article would be of great interest to the readers of the journal because it emphasizes on issues of scalability of climate smart adaptation strategies. It builds on previous literature that looks at the heterogeneity in the impact of adopting improved technologies but extends and applies it to stress-tolerant maize in Tanzania. We can confirm that the material contained in the manuscript has not been published and is not being considered for publication elsewhere and does not infringe upon other copyright materials. AbstractProductivity growth emanating from scientific advances offered by biotechnology and other plant breeding initiatives offers great promise for meeting the growing food demand worldwide. This justifies investments in agricultural research and development that have led to the development of stress-tolerant maize varieties (STMVs) in Africa. While most literature has documented the average impacts of STMVs on productivity, this paper is premised on the fact that benefits from technology adoption are not the same across household. The paper addresses this information gap by examining potential heterogeneity in yield, income, and food security benefits from of adopting STMVs using a sample of 720  maize-producing households from Tanzania. The dose-response continuous treatment effect method supported by an endogenous switching probit model was used to estimate the heterogenous impact of STMV adoption on the three outcomes of interest. Results show that, ove...
Source: Food and Energy Security - Category: Food Science Authors: Tags: ORIGINAL RESEARCH Source Type: research