University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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

Tossou, Dagbegnon Armand

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Title
Drivers of adoption and impacts of smallholder climate-resilient agricultural technologies
Author(s)
Tossou, Dagbegnon Armand
Issue Date
2021-07-15
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Baylis, Kathy
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Baylis, Kathy
Committee Member(s)
  • Winter-Nelson, Alex
  • Michelson, Hope
  • Adjognon, Guigonan
Department of Study
Agr & Consumer Economics
Discipline
Agricultural & Applied Econ
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
  • 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
Abstract
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.
Graduation Semester
2021-08
Type of Resource
Thesis
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