Tigray Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Development, Tigray Regional State Government, Mekelle, Ethiopia
Research Article
Impacts of Extension Services and Social Capital Influence
on Conservation Agriculture Adoption and Household
Food Security Improvements
Author(s): Woldegebrial Zeweld*, Assefa Hidgot and Gebrecherkos Gebregiorgis
There are limited empirical studies that explore how agricultural extension services and local institutions influence conservation agriculture adoption and household food
security. Hence, this paper aims to investigate the potential impacts of extension services and local institutions (social capital) on conservation agriculture and food security.
A cross-sectional data is collected from 350 randomly selected farmers in northern Ethiopia. The propensity matching method and endogenous switching regression are
used to control for selection bias from observed and unobserved factors. Results indicate that extension services and social capital have significant and positive effects on
adopting conservation agriculture and improving household food security. Farmers under the treated groups have higher per capita food consumption, per capita expenditure
and food security levels.. Read More»
DOI:
10.37421/2151-6219.2021.12.364
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