Africa: The World Bank Regional Mission in Eastern Africa Preferential Trade Area for Eastern & Southern African States
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 130 Document Number: C19742
Notes:
Burton Swanson Collection, pp. 16-23 From "Proceedings of regional workshop on agricultural research and extension and their interaction" In Cooperation with the Republic of Kenya Minitries of: Agriculture Livestock Development & Kenya Agricultural Research Institute Kenya December 2-9, 1990
17 pages, We examined the effect of multidimensional farmers' beliefs on the likelihood of cultivating planting materials of biofortified orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) varieties. Using a panel dataset and combining difference-in-differences regression with propensity score matching, results showed positive effects of beliefs related to health benefits, yielding ability, sweetness, disease-resistance, storability, early maturity, colour, and that children enjoy eating OFSP roots, on cultivation of OFSP varieties. The proportion of OFSP roots out of total sweet potato production for a household increased among farmers' who held these beliefs. Efforts to promote biofortified crops can, therefore, benefit from taking farmers' multidimensional beliefs into consideration.
