Farmers' perceptions of benefits and factors affecting the adoption of improved dual-purpose cowpea in the dry savannas of Nigeria

cg.authorship.typesCGIAR multi-centreen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Tropical Agricultureen
cg.coverage.countryNigeria
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2NG
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionWestern Africa
cg.creator.identifierIheanacho Okike: 0000-0001-7059-8595
cg.creator.identifierShirley Tarawali: 0000-0001-9398-8780
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.0169-5150.2005.00338.xen
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn0169-5150en
cg.issue2en
cg.journalAgricultural Economicsen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.iitaCOWPEAen
cg.subject.iitaIMPACT ASSESSMENTen
cg.subject.iitaFOOD SECURITYen
cg.subject.iitaMARKETSen
cg.subject.ilriCROPSen
cg.subject.ilriFEEDSen
cg.subject.ilriIMPACT ASSESSMENTen
cg.volume32en
dc.contributor.authorKristjanson, Patricia M.en
dc.contributor.authorOkike, Iheanachoen
dc.contributor.authorTarawali, Shirley A.en
dc.contributor.authorSingh, B.B.en
dc.contributor.authorManyong, Victor M.en
dc.date.accessioned2010-02-26T14:15:13Zen
dc.date.available2010-02-26T14:15:13Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/738
dc.titleFarmers' perceptions of benefits and factors affecting the adoption of improved dual-purpose cowpea in the dry savannas of Nigeriaen
dcterms.abstractThis study links participatory research methods, geographic information systems (GIS) techniques, village and household-level surveys, and a tobit analysis to examine the adoption and impact issues related to a new technology, improved varieties of dual-purpose cowpea (IDPC), developed by International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and recently released in Nigeria. The article analyzes factors affecting the adoption and impact of the technology across different socioeconomic domains as defined by degree of market access and population density. The results show multiple benefits from this flexible leguminous crop, many of which relate to the fodder and soil fertility-enhancing aspects of IDPC rather than higher grain yields per se. The intensity of adoption was affected by different village- and household-level factors in each socioeconomic domain, allowing more sharply defined recommendation domain-targeting strategies. The multiple research approaches taken also provided useful lessons at different system levels regarding the benefits of, and perceived problems with, this technology for researchers, development practitioners, and policy makers. The collaborative research approaches taken in this study are helping to close the "feedback loop" from farmers back to researchers and others attempting to disseminate the technology, and by doing so, should contribute to faster and more widespread uptake of this technology.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.available2005-02-11
dcterms.bibliographicCitationKristjanson, P., Okike, I., Tarawali, S., Singh, B. B., & Manyong, V. M. (2005). Farmers’ perceptions of benefits and factors affecting the adoption of improved dual‐purpose cowpea in the dry savannas of Nigeria. Agricultural Economics, 32(2), 195–210. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0169-5150.2005.00338.xen
dcterms.extentp. 195-210en
dcterms.issued2005-03
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserved
dcterms.publisherWileyen
dcterms.replaceshttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/91808en
dcterms.subjectimpacten
dcterms.subjectadoptionen
dcterms.subjectcowpeasen
dcterms.subjectfood securityen
dcterms.subjecttobiten
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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