Beyond the field: Impact of Farmer Field Schools on food security and poverty
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Beyond the field : Impact of Farmer Field Schools on food security and poverty. / Larsen, Anna Folke; Lilleør, Helene Bie.
In: World Development, Vol. 64, 12.2014, p. 843-859.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Beyond the field
T2 - Impact of Farmer Field Schools on food security and poverty
AU - Larsen, Anna Folke
AU - Lilleør, Helene Bie
PY - 2014/12
Y1 - 2014/12
N2 - We estimate the impact of a Farmer Field School intervention among small-scale farmers in northern Tanzania on two main development objectives: food security and poverty. We employ a series of evaluation methodologies, including a Quasi-Difference-in-Difference setup, to account for potential selection into the project, despite lack of baseline data. We find strong positive effects on food security, but no effect on poverty. Investigating possible mechanisms for this result shows that reallocation of labor resources toward own agricultural production and improved production smoothing may have led to improved food security while poverty remained unaffected.
AB - We estimate the impact of a Farmer Field School intervention among small-scale farmers in northern Tanzania on two main development objectives: food security and poverty. We employ a series of evaluation methodologies, including a Quasi-Difference-in-Difference setup, to account for potential selection into the project, despite lack of baseline data. We find strong positive effects on food security, but no effect on poverty. Investigating possible mechanisms for this result shows that reallocation of labor resources toward own agricultural production and improved production smoothing may have led to improved food security while poverty remained unaffected.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Impact assessment
KW - Farmer Field Schools
KW - Food security
KW - Poverty
KW - Tanzania
KW - Africa
U2 - 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.07.003
DO - 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.07.003
M3 - Journal article
VL - 64
SP - 843
EP - 859
JO - World Development
JF - World Development
SN - 1873-5991
ER -
ID: 120070627