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Potential impact of groundnut production technology on welfare of smallholder farmers in Ghana

dc.contributor.authorKotu, B.H.
dc.contributor.authorRahman, N.A.
dc.contributor.authorMuthoni, F.K.
dc.contributor.authorHoeschle-Zeledon, I.
dc.contributor.authorKizito, F.
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-21T12:40:33Z
dc.date.available2022-02-21T12:40:33Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.citationKotu, B.H., Nurudeen, A.R., Muthoni, F.K., Hoeschle-Zeledon, I. & Kizito, F. (2022). Potential impact of groundnut production technology on welfare of smallholder farmers in Ghana. PloS ONE, 17(1), 1-22.
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/7360
dc.description.abstractThis study was conducted to assess the potential impact of applying a new groundnut planting density on welfare of smallholder farmers in northern Ghana. We used data from on-farm experiments, focus group discussions, and a household survey. We followed three steps in our analysis. First, we conducted cost-benefit analysis in which we showed the economic advantage of the new technology over the farmers’ practice. Second, we predicted adoption rates along timeline using the Adoption and Diffusion Outcome Prediction Tool (ADOPT). Third, using the results of the first and the second steps, we estimated the potential impact of the technology on poverty at household level using a combination of methods such as economic surplus model and econometric model. The cost-benefit analysis shows that increasing plant density increases farmers’ financial returns i.e., the benefit-cost-ratio increases from 1.05 under farmers’ practice to 1.87 under the best plant density option, which is 22 plants/sqm. The adoption prediction analysis shows that the maximum adoption rate for the best practice will be 62% which will take about nine years to reach. At the maximum adoption rate the incidence of extreme poverty will be reduced by about 3.6% if farmers have access to the international groundnut market and by about 2% if they do not have. The intervention will also reduce poverty gap and poverty severity. The results suggest that policy actions which can improve farmers’ access to the international market will enhance farmers’ welfare more than the situation in which farmers have access to domestic markets only. Furthermore, promoting a more integrated groundnut value-chain can broaden the demand base of the produce resulting in higher and sustainable impact of the technology on the welfare of groundnut producers and beyond.
dc.description.sponsorshipUnited States Agency for International Development
dc.format.extent1-22
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectAgricultural Workers
dc.subjectFinance
dc.subjectGhana
dc.subjectCrops
dc.subjectAgriculture
dc.subjectCost Benefit Analysis
dc.subjectAfrica
dc.subjectPlanting
dc.titlePotential impact of groundnut production technology on welfare of smallholder farmers in Ghana
dc.typeJournal Article
cg.contributor.crpMaize
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionWest Africa
cg.coverage.countryGhana
cg.coverage.hubEastern Africa Hub
cg.coverage.hubHeadquarters and Western Africa Hub
cg.researchthemeBiometrics
cg.researchthemeNatural Resource Management
cg.researchthemePlant Production and Health
cg.researchthemeSocial Science and Agribusiness
cg.identifier.bibtexciteidKOTU:2022
cg.isijournalISI Journal
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR Single Centre
cg.iitasubjectAgribusiness
cg.iitasubjectAgronomy
cg.iitasubjectFood Security
cg.iitasubjectGrain Legumes
cg.iitasubjectPlant Breeding
cg.iitasubjectPlant Production
cg.iitasubjectSmallholder Farmers
cg.iitasubjectSocioeconomy
cg.iitasubjectValue Chains
cg.journalPLOS ONE
cg.notesOpen Access Journal; Published online: 14 Jan 2022
cg.accessibilitystatusOpen Access
cg.reviewstatusPeer Review
cg.usagerightslicenseCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 0.0)
cg.targetaudienceScientists
cg.identifier.doihttps://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260877
cg.iitaauthor.identifierBekele Hundie Kotu: 0000-0001-5788-6461
cg.iitaauthor.identifierNurudeen Abdul Rahman: 0000-0003-4073-5610
cg.iitaauthor.identifierIrmgard Hoeschle-Zeledon: 0000-0002-2530-6554
cg.iitaauthor.identifierFred Kizito: 0000-0002-7488-2582
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cg.identifier.issue1
cg.identifier.volume17


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