The adoption of improved agricultural technologies: A meta-analysis for Africa

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cg.contributor.affiliationLaikipia Universityen
cg.contributor.affiliationWorld Agroforestry Centreen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Fund for Agricultural Developmenten
cg.contributor.affiliationCGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Securityen
cg.contributor.crpClimate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
cg.coverage.countryTanzania
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2TZ
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.creator.identifierKristin Floress: 0000-0002-9918-8116
cg.creator.identifierChristine Lamanna: 0000-0002-6773-7352
cg.creator.identifierLeslie Lipper: 0000-0003-0889-1023
cg.creator.identifierTodd Rosenstock: 0000-0002-1958-9500
cg.identifier.projectCCAFS: PII-FP2_CSAScaling
cg.subject.ccafsCLIMATE-SMART TECHNOLOGIES AND PRACTICESen
dc.contributor.authorArslan, Aslihanen
dc.contributor.authorFloress, Kristinen
dc.contributor.authorLamanna, Christineen
dc.contributor.authorLipper, Leslieen
dc.contributor.authorAsfaw, Solomonen
dc.contributor.authorRosenstock, Todd S.en
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-03T16:47:40Zen
dc.date.available2020-11-03T16:47:40Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/110037
dc.titleThe adoption of improved agricultural technologies: A meta-analysis for Africaen
dcterms.abstractUnderstanding the determinants of improved agricultural technology adoption is an important component of increasing agricultural productivity and incomes of smallholders to reduce poverty and hunger, which are the top two Sustainable Development Goals. Among the actions needed to achieve this, particular attention is paid to the identification and promotion of productivity and resilience enhancing agricultural practices. The micro-economic literature on the analysis of the drivers of agricultural technology adoption is well-established since the Green Revolution. Although numerous seminal reviews of this literature have been published, most of these were theoretical or conceptual reviews and focus on earlier literature from continents other than Africa, which is the continent facing the biggest productivity challenge now. This paper synthesizes the findings of this literature focusing on Africa using a meta-data set that brings together the results of 168 recently published papers. We find that most of this literature focuses on agronomic practices and that agroforestry and livestock related studies make up less than one fifth of the total published papers. Eleven determinants, primarily those related to information access, wealth indicators and tenure security, are found to increase adoption more than chance would dictate in the literature. Our findings provide evidence to support recommendations for future policy and research.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationArslan A, Floress K, Lamanna C, Lipper L, Asfaw S, Rosenstock T. 2020. The adoption of improved agricultural technologies: A meta-analysis for Africa. CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).en
dcterms.extent48 p.en
dcterms.issued2020-08-03
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserved
dcterms.publisherCGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Securityen
dcterms.subjectfood securityen
dcterms.subjectagricultureen
dcterms.subjectclimate changeen
dcterms.subjectadoptionen
dcterms.typeReport

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