Economic Impact Assessment of Improved Maize Adoption on Poverty: Case Study of Four West African Countries

Ygué Patrice Adegbola1, Baudelaire YF Kouton Bognon and Pélagie M Hessavi
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Pélagie M Hessavi: Institut National des Recherches Agricoles du Bénin(INRAB), Benin

International Journal of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources, 2020, vol. 26, issue 4, 134-141

Abstract: This study provides a consistent estimate of the impact of the adoption of the improved maize varieties on Poverty reduction, using three econometric approach (ATE, LATE, MTE) estimation techniques. It uses cross-sectional data of 1069 farmers from four West African country. Results show that the adoption of the improved maize varieties has a positive and statistically significant impact on average annual per capita household expenditure. Specifically, the empirical results suggest that adoption of improved maize varieties helped raise household per capita household expenditure by an average of 15.72 CFA. The adoption of improved maize varieties reduced the incidence and intensity of poverty by 7.44 and 8.33 respectively in all country.

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Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.19080/IJESNR.2020.26.556193

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