Modelling smallholder farmers' preferences for soil fertility management technologies in Benin: A stated preference approach.

ABSTRACT: The decline of soil fertility is a major constraint which results in lower levels of crop productivity, agricultural development and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa. This study is the first to perform a focalized investigation on the most interesting technological profiles to offer to each category of producers in Benin agricultural development hubs (ADHs) using the stated preference method, more precisely, the improved choice experiment method. The investigation focused on 1047 sampled plots from 962 randomly selected producers in villages of the Smallholder Agricultural Productivity Enhancement Program in Sub-Saharan Africa of the ADHs. An analysis of the experimental choice data with the endogenous attribute attendance and the latent class models was carried out to account for the a

SUBMITTER: Zossou SRC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8244892 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature