Impacts of Adoption of Improved Wheat Technologies on Households' Food Consumption in Southeastern Ethiopia
2017
Mulugeta, Tsegaye | Hundie, Bekele
This study aims at shedding light on the potential impact of agricultural technology adoption onhousehold food consumption status. The analysis is based on the data collected from randomlyselected 200 farm households in Southeast Ethiopia. Since the process of technology adoptionusually involves non-random placement of adopters, we employed a propensity score matchingmethod to avoid bias arising from possible self-selection. The results show that adoption ofimproved wheat technologies has a robust and positive effect on farmers food consumption peradult equivalent per day. The Average Treatment Effect on the Treated (ATT), based on threeestimation algorithms, ranges from 377.37 calories per day to 603.16 calories per day whichindicates that efforts to disseminate existing wheat technologies will highly contribute to foodsecurity among farm households.
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