Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/104815 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
GlobalFood Discussion Papers No. 51
Publisher: 
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Research Training Group (RTG) 1666 - GlobalFood, Göttingen
Abstract: 
There is widespread consensus that agricultural technology has an important role to play for poverty reduction and sustainable development. There is less consensus, however, about the types of technologies that are best suited for smallholder farmers in Africa. While some consider natural resource management (NRM) technologies as most appropriate, others propagate input intensification with a stronger role of the private sector. In the public debate, the two strategies are often perceived as incompatible. Most existing adoption studies focus on individual technologies, so that comparisons across technologies in the same context are not easily possible. We use representative data from maize-producing households in Kenya and a multivariate probit model to analyze the adoption of different types of technologies simultaneously. Results indicate that NRM technologies and strategies that build on external inputs are not incompatible. Interesting complementarities exist, which are not yet sufficiently exploited, because many organizations promote either one type of technology or the other, but rarely a combination of both.
Subjects: 
technology adoption
maize
small farms
sustainable agriculture
Africa
JEL: 
O13
O33
Q12
Q16
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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