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Peanut Research and Poverty Reduction: Impacts of Variety Improvement to Control Peanut Viruses in Uganda |
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| Authors: | Sibusiso Moyo George W. Norton Jeffrey Alwang Ingrid Rhinehart C. Michael Deom |
| Affiliation: | Sibusiso Moyo, George W. Norton, and Jeffrey Alwang are, respectively, former graduate research assistant, professor, and professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061;. Ingrid Rhinehart is research analyst, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC;. Michael Deom is professor at University of Georgia. |
| Abstract: | A procedure is developed and applied for predicting ex ante impacts of agricultural research on aggregate poverty, using as an example the poverty-reducing impact of peanut research in Uganda. Market-level information on economic surplus changes is combined with a procedure for allocating income changes to individual households. Characteristics of farmers that affect their likelihood of technology adoption are used to create a technology adoption profile. Associated changes in poverty resulting from adoption are computed using poverty indices. Predicted income changes at the household level are aggregated to the market level and reconciled with calculations of economic surplus changes. |
| Keywords: | poverty impacts of agricultural research Rosette virus Uganda peanuts |