Impact of households’ membership of farmer groups on the adoption of agricultural technologies in Uganda: Evidence from the Uganda Census of Agriculture 2008/09

Adong, Annet

doi:10.1080/03031853.2014.915485

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“…The study reveals that FFS is more desirable to the farmers in the district of Hoima and so is PTD. This view in agreement with a study conducted by Adong (2014), who established a reasonable indication of the progressive effect of households' involvement in farmers' groups on the espousal of methods, for example, making usage of better-quality seeds, biological compost as well as enhanced livestock varieties. However, this outcome is in the opposite direction with a study conducted by Ibnu, Offermans and Glasbergen (2018) in Bangladesh, revealing that the specialised farmers had greater benefits than unspecialised farmers; also, prepared farmers had greater paybacks than their counterparts who are not organised.…”

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“…The FFS can even be necessary, seeing that the widely professed modern farming technologies have not been extensively espoused in Uganda. They have had a very narrow role in agricultural efficiency and returns of smallholder agriculturalists to alleviate concerns of food uncertainty (Adong, 2014). These technologies are many as they embrace machinery, modern varieties of planting materials, use of enrichers and insecticides, modern organisational practices, as well as the use of computers (Vercillo et al, 2015).…”

Section: The Contextual Perspective Of Ffs In Ugandamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Efficacy of farmer field schools in achieving participatory technology development among smallholder farmers in the Hoima district, Uganda

Mwesigwa¹

2021

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Purpose: This study investigated the efficacy of FFS for participatory technology development among smallholder farmers in Hoima district, Uganda. It is anticipated that by making FFS concrete, household food security will be enhanced. Research methodology: The study utilised primary data, which was collected using a self-administered questionnaire. While 120 respondents were sampled, 103 responded, generating a response rate of 85.83%. This was an excellent response seeing that it merited above 75%. The researcher administered all questionnaires in one month. Results: From the findings indicate that PTD is more desirable in the Hoima district. In addition, the construct of the ability to solve problems from time to time indicates that problem-solving is very desirable for PTD in the Hoima district. The results suggest a positive correlation between FFS and PTD among the study population, indicating that a unit-change in the FFS constructs will lead to a proportionate change in the constructs of PTD in the same direction. This implies that improving FFS quality by a single unit will translate into progressive improvement in PTD in the Hoima district. This study also suggests that FFS alone has a strong positive influence on PTD in the Hoima district. Limitations: This study merely covered farmer-field schools, yet several interventions aim to raise the quality of agriculture in Uganda, such as National Agricultural Advisory Services and Emyoga. Contribution: This study contributes to the deeper understanding of what ought to be done to improve the quality of farming in Uganda.

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Section: The Contextual Perspective Of Ffs In Ugandamentioning

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Efficacy of farmer field schools in achieving participatory technology development among smallholder farmers in the Hoima district, Uganda

Mwesigwa¹

2021

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“…However, in some cases, it has been found that cooperatives do not have any advantages for some provided services, such as access to knowledge and new technologies [55,56], and contrary to the expected goal of redistribution, some practice social exclusion [57,58]. As cooperatives in some areas are organized and controlled by government agencies, they are specifically focused on the specific political and economic interests of private companies and local elites and therefore do not benefit the poorer households [59], who also often lack access to formal service channels because of their low incomes and the perceived risk of default [4].…”

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Poverty Reduction Effect of New-Type Agricultural Cooperatives: An Empirical Analysis Using Propensity Score Matching and Endogenous Switching Regression Models

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Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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Agricultural cooperatives have been found to effectively alleviate poverty in developing countries because of their specific socioeconomic functions that allow poor households to overcome marketing and production constraints. However, cooperative evaluations are inevitably influenced by other poverty alleviation measures and rarely consider the characteristics of specific ethnic groups. Using cross-sectional surveys in Southwest China and employing propensity score matching (PSM) and endogenous switching regression (ESR) models, this paper analyzed the participation of poor households in New-type Agricultural Cooperatives (NACs) in ethnic areas and assessed the income impacts of NAC membership by eliminating unobserved biases and group heterogeneity. This study detected heterogeneous policy perceptions and behavioral differences between the member and nonmember groups, and the PSM and ESR model results indicated that, overall, participation in the NACs had a positive effect on household income. The ESR model was found to be more plausible as it was able to reveal the significant income gaps under a counterfactual inference framework. Local policymakers need to focus on the policy perception and behavioral and earning capability differences between groups and increase the balanced policy implementation.

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“…Alguns estudos ressaltam a importância de fatores relacionados ao acesso à informação (Bocquet et al, 2007;Gachango et al, 2015), como a participação em cooperativas, associações de produtores e sindicatos rurais (Tiamiyu et al, 2014;Adong, 2014;Carrer et al, 2013b), além do acesso à internet (Souza Filho et al, 2011;Vinholis et al, 2017) e aos serviços de assistência técnica e extensão rural (Feder et al, 1985;Dhakal et al, 2015;Gyau et al, 2014;Tiamiyu et al, 2014;Arslan et al, 2014;Mekuria & Mekonnen, 2018;Souza Filho et al, 2021).…”

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Preditores da adoção de sistemas de integração lavoura-pecuária em São Paulo e o papel dos intermediários da inovação

Vinholis

Filho

Carrer

2023

Rev. Econ. Sociol. Rural

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Resumo: Este artigo tem como objetivo propor um modelo analítico para identificar preditores de regiões propensas à difusão de tecnologia de processo, bem como identificar e descrever funções de apoio à inovação. Utilizou-se as abordagens teóricas de difusão de inovações e de intermediários da inovação. Analisou-se a adoção de sistemas de integração lavoura-pecuária (ILP) no estado de São Paulo. O método proposto consistiu de (i) revisão da literatura sobre adoção e difusão de inovações e intermediários da inovação, (ii) um survey para identificar fatores que influenciam a adoção de ILP e (iii) a comparação de dois municípios com elevada difusão de ILP com sua região de desenvolvimento rural (EDR). Foram utilizados dados censitários sobre aspectos organizacionais e institucionais da região e características das propriedades rurais. Demonstrou-se que os preditores são: tamanho da propriedade; atividade pecuária e tipo de manejo predominantes; participação em cooperativa, sindicato rural e associação de produtores; além do acesso a serviços de extensão, seguro e crédito rural. Identificou-se que instituições e organizações atuam como intermediários da inovação, facilitando a interação e conexão entre os atores e promovendo serviços essenciais de apoio à adoção de tecnologias agrícolas.

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Impact of households’ membership of farmer groups on the adoption of agricultural technologies in Uganda: Evidence from the Uganda Census of Agriculture 2008/09

Cited by 8 publications

References 7 publications

Efficacy of farmer field schools in achieving participatory technology development among smallholder farmers in the Hoima district, Uganda

Efficacy of farmer field schools in achieving participatory technology development among smallholder farmers in the Hoima district, Uganda

Poverty Reduction Effect of New-Type Agricultural Cooperatives: An Empirical Analysis Using Propensity Score Matching and Endogenous Switching Regression Models

Preditores da adoção de sistemas de integração lavoura-pecuária em São Paulo e o papel dos intermediários da inovação

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