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Baylis, Kathy Baylis, Kathy Winter-Nelson, Alex Michelson, Hope Adjognon, Guigonan Tossou, Dagbegnon Armand 2022-01-12T21:45:43Z 2022-01-12T21:45:43Z 2021-07-15 2021-08 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. Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-01-12 without embargo terms The student, Armand Tossou, accepted the attached license on 2021-07-14 at 13:20. The student, Armand Tossou, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2021-07-14 at 13:55. This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2021-07-15 at 13:55. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #16933 on 2022-01-12 at 12:45:28 Made available in DSpace on 2022-01-12T21:45:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 TOSSOU-DISSERTATION-2021.pdf: 5716940 bytes, checksum: 8fd9a6fb23fa7782e16fa324e616336f (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4210 bytes, checksum: 10c38c0b01d2d0550f37fcb1cc326436 (MD5) PROQUEST_LICENSE.txt: 4556 bytes, checksum: aca80413b4e9dfc6e49d2a10943d85c3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2021-07-15 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/113044 en © 2021 Dagbegnon Armand Tossou 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 Drivers of adoption and impacts of smallholder climate-resilient agricultural technologies Thesis text Agr & Consumer Economics Agricultural & Applied Econ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.