The Impact of Improved Maize Varieties on Poverty in Mexico: A Propensity Score-Matching Approach

By J. Becerril, Awudu Abdulai. 2010

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Safety Research, Soil Science

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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3. B. Shiferaw
4. S. Asfaw
5. Hiwot Mesfin
6. M. Ahmed
7. M. Qaim
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Citations in the corpus

• Impact of improved maize varieties on food security in Eastern Zambia: A doubly robust analysis (2018, unknown): “A hybrid maize variety results from crossing two or more inbred lines, while OPVs are populations that breeders have selected for a very specific set of traits and generally they can be replanted up to three years without a decline in yields (Becerril and Abdulai, 2010).”
• The impact of agricultural cooperatives membership on the wellbeing of smallholder farmers: empirical evidence from eastern Ethiopia (2017, background): “…productivity is important for enhancing farmer livelihood, reducing rural poverty, and increasing food security (Shiferaw et al. 2014; Zeng et al. 2015; Asfaw et al. 2012; Kassie et al. 2011; Becerril and Abdulai 2010; Alene et al. 2009; Minten and Barrett 2008; Evenson and Gollin 2003).”
• Adoption and continued use of improved maize seeds: Case study of Central Ethiopia (2010, background): “improves household welfare (Becerril and Abdulai, 2010).”
• Farmer training in off-season vegetables: Effects on income and pesticide use in Bangladesh (2016, methodology): “Both methods have been widely used in the impact evaluation literature (e.g. Gitonga et al. 2013, Fischer and Qaim 2012, Abebaw et al. 2010, Becerril and Abdulai 2010).”
• Poverty Reduction Effects of Agricultural Technology Adoption: A Micro-evidence from Rural Tanzania (2012, background): “This result is consistent with Becerril and Abdulai (2010), who found that both the positive impact on per capita expenditure and negative impact on poverty with adoption of improved maize varieties declined with land size.”
• Impact of modern agricultural technologies on smallholder welfare: Evidence from Tanzania and Ethiopia (2012, background): “This result is consistent with Becerril and Abdulai (2010), who found that both the positive impact on per capita expenditure and negative impact on poverty with adoption of improved maize varieties declined with land size.”
• Adoption of improved wheat varieties and impacts on household food security in Ethiopia (2014, background): “…crops (maize, groundnuts, pigeonpeas, rice) on agricultural productivity and household welfare (e.g. Mendola, 2007; Minten and Barrett, 2008; Alene et al., 2009; Shiferaw et al., 2008; Asfaw et al., 2012; Becerril and Abdulai, 2010; Kijima et al., 2011; Kassie et al., 2011; Amare et al., 2012).”
• Does the Use of Mobile Phones by Smallholder Maize Farmers Affect Productivity in Ghana? (2018, background): “The advantage of the PSM over the parametric approaches enumerated above is that it does not rely on any functional assumption about the relationship between the outcome (i.e. productivity) and its determinants (see Becerril & Abdulai, 2010).”
• Impact of metal silos on households’ maize storage, storage losses and food security: An application of a propensity score matching (2013, background): “…information access on prices received by smallholder farmers in Uganda (Kiiza et al., 2010); the impact of improved maize varieties on poverty in Mexico (Becerril and Abdulai, 2009); and the impact of the adoption of improved groundnut varieties on rural poverty in Uganda (Kassie et al., 2011).”
• Analysis of Adoption and Impacts of Improved Maize Varieties in Eastern Zambia (2015, unknown): “Other studies also established a significant link between adoption of new agricultural technologies and poverty reduction in Tanzania, Mexico, Bangladesh, and Kenya (e.g., Amare et al ., 2012; Becerril & Abdulai, 2010; Mathenge et al ., 2014; Mendola, 2007).”
• Factors Affecting Adoption of Improved Rice Varieties among Rural Farm Households in Central Nepal (2015, background): “This observation has, therefore, spawned numerous studies about agricultural technology adoption and their impact on smallholders’ welfare in developing countries in the recent years (Besley and Case, 1993; Doss and Morris, 2000; Mendola, 2007; Becerril and Abdulai, 2010).”