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| Title: | Increasing smallholder farmers’ market participation through technology adoption in rural Timor-Leste | Authors: | Sonia Akter NamrataChindarkar WilliamErskine Luc Spyckerelle JulieImron LuciaVianaBranco |
Keywords: | high-yielding varieties instrumental variable market participation seeds of Life Timor-Leste |
Issue Date: | 31-Jul-2021 | Publisher: | wiley | Citation: | Sonia Akter, NamrataChindarkar, WilliamErskine, Luc Spyckerelle, JulieImron, LuciaVianaBranco (2021-07-31). Increasing smallholder farmers’ market participation through technology adoption in rural Timor-Leste. Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies 8 : 280-298. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1002/app5.329 | Abstract: | Thisstudyexaminesthe roleof high?yieldingmaizevarietiesas one of the key driversof smallholderfarmers’marketparticipationin a highlysubsistenceruraleconomy.The analysisis basedon the End?of?ProgramSurveydatacollectedby the Seedsof Lifeprogramin2016covering700 householdsin ruralTimor?Leste.Theresultsrevealsignificantpositiveimpactsof technologyadoptionon farmers’marketparticipation.Householdswherewomenare relativelymoreactivein agriculturethanmenare morelikelyto engagein agriculturalcommerce.Theresultsalsoshowa positiveimpactoftechnologyadoptionon maizeproductivity.Thesefindingspresentthe firstempiricalevidenceof thecausallinkbetweentechnologyadoptionandmarketparticipationchoices. | Source Title: | Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies | URI: | https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/217158 | ISSN: | 2050-2680 | DOI: | 10.1002/app5.329 |
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