Drivers of adoption and impacts of smallholder climate-resilient agricultural technologies

This dissertation explores current challenges facing the adoption of agricultural technologies and practices in developing countries. I focus on climate-resilient technologies that are particularly important. The studies cover (i) the evaluation of the effects of a country-wide market-smart input subsidy program on the purchase and use of modern agricultural inputs, crop diversification, farm productivity, income generation, food security, the distance to agro-dealers and program delivery timing, by leveraging a recent policy change in Zambia, (ii) an investigation of the factors that cause the dynamic adoption and disadoption of climate-resilient technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), through a case study of the Smart-valley rice production technology that was introduced in Benin in 2010, (iii) and the causal relationship between weather, irrigation and farm productivity and household welfare, by taking advantage of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) in rural Haiti.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Agricultural & Applied Econ

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2022

Author dc:creator

• Tossou, Dagbegnon Armand

Contributors dc:contributor

• Baylis, Kathy
• Winter-Nelson, Alex
• Michelson, Hope
• Adjognon, Guigonan

• technology adoption
• disadoption
• diffusion
• climate-resilient agricultural technologies
• smallholder
• agriculture
• economics
• agricultural economics
• machine learning
• irrigation
• input subsidy
• Benin
• Haiti
• Zambia
• sub-saharan africa
• university of illinois at urbana-champaign
• world bank
• rice
• maize
• impact evaluation
• difference in difference
• fixed effects
• dagbegnon armand tossou

Statement dc:rights

• © 2021 Dagbegnon Armand Tossou

Language dc:language

en

Handle dc:identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/113044

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/113044