Adoption of improved agricultural technologies has long been recognized as critical for reducing poverty through increased productivity, incomes, and asset accumulation. Using a nationally representative survey data from a sample of over 1500 households in Nigeria, this paper evaluates the impacts of adoption of improved cowpea varieties on income and asset poverty reduction using an endogenous switching regression model. The results showed that adoption of improved cowpea varieties increased per capita household income and asset ownership by 17 and 24 percentage points, respectively. The results based on the observed and counterfactual income and asset distributions further showed that adoption reduced both income poverty and asset poverty by 5 percentage points. The paper concludes with a discussion of the policy options for increasing adoption and impacts of improved cowpea varieties in Nigeria.

https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.05.027

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Julius Mandahttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9599-5906

Arega Alenehttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2491-4603

Adane Tufahttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9801-6526

Tahirou Abdoulayehttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8072-1363

Tesfamicheal Wossen Assfawhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3672-2676

David Chikoyehttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6047-9821

Victor Manyonghttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2477-7132

https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.05.027

SOCIAL SCIENCE & AGRICUSINESS

Cowpea; Grain Legumes; Impact Assessment

Cowpeas; Varieties; Income Generation; Nigeria; Poverty; Technology

Africa; West Africa

Nigeria

World Development