Impacts of subsidized hybrid seed on indicators of economic well‐being among smallholder maize growers in Zambia

By N. Mason, M. Smale. 2013

143 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Sociology and Political Science

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. N. Mason
2. T. Jayne
3. A. Alene
4. J. Manda
5. W. Burke
6. J. Ariga
7. M. Kassie
8. C. Gardebroek

In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. N. Mason
2. A. Alene
3. J. Manda
4. T. Jayne
5. W. Burke
6. J. Ariga
7. C. Gardebroek
8. M. Kassie

In Sociology and Political Science

1. P. Joshi
2. G. Thapa
3. Anjani Kumar
4. Jill E. Cairns
5. J. Manda
6. Sunil Saroj
7. Hiroyuki Takeshima
8. T. Jayne

Citations in the corpus

• Adoption and diffusion of improved technologies and production practices in agriculture: Insights from a donor-led intervention in Nepal (2020, background): “Institutional factors, such as association with a farmers group (Ghimire and Huang, 2015), also help determine technology adoption, as do agroecological characteristics of farm location (Mason and Smale, 2013).”
• Gains in Maize Genetic Improvement in Eastern and Southern Africa: II. CIMMYT Open-Pollinated Variety Breeding Pipeline (2017, background): “The use of hybrid seed increased maize yields and annual income, reducing the depth of poverty ( Jones et al., 2012; Mason and Smale, 2013; Mathenge et al., 2014).”
• Review: Taking stock of Africa’s second-generation agricultural input subsidy programs (2018, background): “…reviewed, only one suggests that households with more land are less likely to receive ISP inputs (Sheahan et al., 2014), and only a handful suggest that an increase in landholding size has no effect on ISP receipt (Mason and Smale, 2013; Pan and Christiaensen, 2012; Takeshima and Nkonya, 2014).”
• Adoption and Impacts of Sustainable Agricultural Practices on Maize Yields and Incomes: Evidence from Rural Zambia (2016, background): “The results show that, on average, the adoption of improved maize varieties significantly increases maize yields by about 90% and this is consistent with other studies on adoption and impacts of improved maize varieties (e.g. Mason and Smale, 2013).”
• Impact of improved maize varieties on food security in Eastern Zambia: A doubly robust analysis (2018, unknown): “A number of studies have looked at the welfare impacts of improved maize varieties (Kumar, 1994; Mason & Smale, 2013; Smale & Mason, 2014), but most of the previous studies have not measured the direct impacts on household food security.”