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Smallholder farmers' willingness to pay for two-wheel tractor-based mechanisation services in Zambia and Zimbabwe

dc.contributor.authorNgoma, H.
dc.contributor.authorMarenya, P.
dc.contributor.authorHirpa Tufa, A.
dc.contributor.authorAlene, A.
dc.contributor.authorChipindu, L.
dc.contributor.authorMartin, M.A.
dc.contributor.authorThierfelder, C.
dc.contributor.authorChikoye, D.
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-31T12:01:29Z
dc.date.available2024-05-31T12:01:29Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.citationNgoma, H., Marenya, P., Hirpa Tufa, A., Alene, A., Chipindu, L., Matin, M.A., ... & Chikoye, D. (2023). Smallholder farmers' willingness to pay for two‐wheel tractor‐based mechanisation services in Zambia and Zimbabwe. Journal of International Development, 1-22.
dc.identifier.issn0954-1748
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/8486
dc.description.abstractMechanisation is back among top development policy priorities for transforming African smallholder agriculture. Yet previous and ongoing efforts ubiquitously suffer from lack of scientific information on end-user effective demand for different types of mechanical innovations to inform public investment or business development programmes. We assess smallholder farmers' willingness to pay (WTP) for two-wheel tractor (2WT)-based ripping, direct seeding and transportation using a random sample of 2800 smallholder households in Zambia and Zimbabwe. Applying the Becker–DeGroot–Marschak Mechanism (BDM) experimental auctions, we find that at least 50% of sample households in Zambia and Zimbabwe were willing to pay more than the prevailing market prices for ripping. In nominal terms, sample households in Zimbabwe were willing to pay more than those in Zambia for the different services. Empirical results suggest that wealth is the strongest driver of WTP for tillage and seeding 2WT services while labour availability and using animal draft power reduce it. These findings imply a need to (i) raise awareness and create demand for 2WT-based services in an inclusive business manner that does not create perverse incentives and (ii) better target mechanisation to operations with comparative advantage, using approaches that bundle 2WT-based and other mechanisation services with asset-agnostic credit schemes or other interventions meant to overcome asset-mediated barriers.
dc.description.sponsorshipNorwegian Agency for Development Cooperation
dc.format.extent1-22
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectDemand
dc.subjectMechanization
dc.subjectTargeting
dc.subjectTractors
dc.subjectZambia
dc.subjectZimbabwe
dc.titleSmallholder farmers' willingness to pay for two-wheel tractor-based mechanisation services in Zambia and Zimbabwe
dc.typeJournal Article
cg.contributor.crpAgriculture for Nutrition and Health
cg.contributor.crpGrain Legumes
cg.contributor.crpMaize
cg.contributor.crpRoots, Tubers and Bananas
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions and Markets
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Africa
cg.coverage.countryZambia
cg.coverage.countryZimbabwe
cg.coverage.hubSouthern Africa Hub
cg.researchthemeSocial Science and Agribusiness
cg.identifier.bibtexciteidNGOMA:2023
cg.isijournalISI Journal
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR Multi Centre
cg.iitasubjectAgribusiness
cg.iitasubjectFarming Systems
cg.iitasubjectFood Security
cg.iitasubjectLivelihoods
cg.iitasubjectPost-Harvesting Technology
cg.journalJournal of International Development
cg.notesOpen Access Article; Published online: 13 Mar 2023
cg.accessibilitystatusOpen Access
cg.reviewstatusPeer Review
cg.usagerightslicenseCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 0.0)
cg.targetaudienceScientists
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3767
cg.iitaauthor.identifierAdane Tufa: 0000-0001-9801-6526
cg.iitaauthor.identifierArega Alene: 0000-0002-2491-4603
cg.iitaauthor.identifierDavid Chikoye: 0000-0002-6047-9821
cg.futureupdate.requiredNo
cg.contributor.acknowledgementsThis study was supported by the Royal Norwegian Government through the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) who funded the project Understanding and Enhancing Adoption of Conservation Agriculture in Smallholder Farming Systems of Southern Africa (ACASA), grant P1925 under the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). Additional logistical support was made available through the CGIAR Research Program on Maize Agrifood Systems (CRP MAIZE; www.maize.org). We are grateful to all government and private sector partners and numerous research assistants who facilitated fieldwork. We are also grateful for comments from Frédéric Baudron, the editor and two anonymous reviewers. The views expressed here are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding organisations or the authors' affiliations.


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