Climate-smart cowpea adoption and welfare effects of comprehensive agricultural training programs.

ABSTRACT: Agricultural training programs remain one of the primary mechanisms for disseminating modern and climate-smart technologies with the aim to improve the welfare outcomes of smallholder farmers. With persistent low agricultural productivity in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA), the content, effectiveness, and mode of delivery of training programs remain a debate. In this paper, we examine the adoption, productivity, and income effects of participating in a novel comprehensive agricultural training program (CATP) involving cowpea farmers in northern Ghana by using the endogenous switching regression (ESR) model. The CATP requires farmers to complete a set of modules on good agronomic practices to gain informal certification. The results indicate that participating in the CATP increases the adoption of

SUBMITTER: Martey E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7973722 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature