Several studies have suggested demand-pull creation in urban areas as a strategy to drive the adoption of novel agricultural products in rural areas.
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Understanding the adoption of high-iron varieties in Maharashtra, India: What explains popularity?
Pearl millet is one of the most important food staples of poorer populations in the drylands of India. India’s first pearl millet hybrids were released during the Green Revolution.
Beans are grown by nearly all rural households in Rwanda, provide a large share of calorie intakes, and are a vital source of proteins and micronutrients.
In recent times, results of various adoption studies have been mixed, raising questions regarding why some improved farm technologies are still not widely adopted several years after their first introduction.
This paper investigates the relationship between adoption of modern rice varieties and rice varietal diversity on household farms in Bangladesh.
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Biofortification, crop adoption, and health information: impact pathways in Mozambique and Uganda
Biofortification, breeding staple food crops to be dense sources of essential micronutrients, is fast emerging as a strategy to fight micronutrient malnutrition.
Biofortified pro-vitamin A cassava varieties are being developed and deployed in Nigeria and other countries.
In this paper we study the role of social networks in the context of the low adoption rate of hybrid varieties of pearl millet, an important dry land crop in India.
Agricultural interventions are thought to have the potential to improve nutrition, but very little rigorous evidence is available about programs that link the two.
Iron deficiency among children and women of child-bearing age is a public health problem in many developing countries.
In this paper we use sensory evaluation methods adopted from food science literature and the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak mechanism adopted from economic valuation literature to estimate consumer demand for biofortified high-iron pearl millet (HIPM) in Ma
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Productivity and efficiency of farmers growing four popular wheat varieties in Punjab, Pakistan
HarvestPlus seeks to select one or more wheat varieties in Pakistan to biofortify with zinc to improve the health of the Pakistani population, especially women and children.
This paper applies duration analysis to identify the factors that shorten the time until a farmer replaces one modern variety with another, and tests hypotheses concerning two salient themes of the Green Revolution: farm size differences and the r
In this paper we use the Becker-deGroot-Marschak auction mechanism to estimate consumer demand for biofortified yellow cassava varieties in two states of Nigeria: Imo in the southeast and Oyo in the southwest.
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Hybrid seed use and diversity of diets among women in smallholder maize-growing households in Zambia
Despite the policy importance of household nutrition and food security in rural Zambia, we are not aware of any analyses since a 1994 study by Shubh Kumar that have related the adoption of hybrid seed to dietary diversity among smallholder maize g
Country-crop-micronutrient–specific biofortification prioritization indices (BPIs)
In this paper we assess (a) consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for a recently developed variety of maize that is high in provitamin A in the context of a public health intervention and (b) the performance of three elicitation mechanisms in estimatin
This analysis explores smallholder demand for hybrid maize seed by subsidy receipt.
This analysis explores the determinants of demand for first-generation (F1) hybrid maize seed in Zambia based on a survey of maize growers during the 2010/11 cropping season.
This study explores farmer acceptance and valuation of a biofortified staple food crop in a developing country prior to its commercialization.