Arega Alene
Biographic Data
| ID | 1401441 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arega Alene |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arega |
| FAMILY NAME | Alene |
| SIGNATURE | ALENE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Nairobi Kenya |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The role of genotyping in measuring improved variety adoption and impact
Too fast or too slow
Smallholder farmers' willingness to pay for two‐wheel tractor‐based mechanisation services in Zambia and Zimbabwe
Mechanisation is back among top development policy priorities for transforming African smallholder agriculture. Yet previous and ongoing efforts ubiquitously suffer from lack of scientific information on end‐user effective demand for different types of mechanical innovations to inform public investment or business development programmes. We assess smallholder farmers' willingness to pay (WTP) for two‐wheel tractor (2WT)‐based ripping, direct seed…
Agricultural technology adoption and household welfare
Previous studies on the adoption and impacts of improved crop varieties have relied on self-reported adoption status of the surveyed households. However, in the presence of weak variety maintenance and poorly functioning seed certification system, measurement errors in self-reported adoption status can be considerable. This paper investigates how such measurement errors can lead to biased welfare estimates. Using DNA-fingerprinting based varietal…
Who benefits from which agricultural research-for-development technologies? Evidence from farm household poverty analysis in Central Africa
Impacts of extension access and cooperative membership on technology adoption and household welfare
This paper examines the impacts of access to extension services and cooperative membership on technology adoption, asset ownership and poverty using household-level data from rural Nigeria. Using different matching techniques and endogenous switching regression approach, we find that both extension access and cooperative membership have a positive and statistically significant effect on technology adoption and household welfare. Moreover, we find…
Productivity and Welfare Effects of Nigeria's e-Voucher-Based Input Subsidy Program
In an attempt to go beyond the so called " smart " subsidies, Nigeria has embarked on a potentially innovative mobile phone-based input subsidy program that provides fertilizer and improved seed subsidies through electronic vouchers. In this article, we examined the productivity and welfare effects of the program using household-level data from rural Nigeria. The article employed instrumental variable regression approach to control for the potent…
Engaging with cultural practices in ways that benefit women in northern Nigeria
This study explores the intra-household impact of improved dual-purpose cowpea (IDPC) from\na gender perspective, in terms of productivity and food, fodder, and income availability, the\nimpact of which is linked to the income thus placed in the women’s hands. Surplus income is\nimportant in providing food and nutritional benefits to the home, particularly during periods\nof risk. More importantly, income generated through the adoption of improve…
Impacts of extension access and cooperative membership on technology adoption and household welfare
This paper examines the impacts of access to extension services and cooperative membership on technology adoption, asset ownership and poverty using household-level data from rural Nigeria. Using different matching techniques and endogenous switching regression approach, we find that both extension access and cooperative membership have a positive and statistically significant effect on technology adoption and household welfare. Moreover, we find…
Productivity and Welfare Effects of Nigeria's e-Voucher-Based Input Subsidy Program
In an attempt to go beyond the so called " smart " subsidies, Nigeria has embarked on a potentially innovative mobile phone-based input subsidy program that provides fertilizer and improved seed subsidies through electronic vouchers. In this article, we examined the productivity and welfare effects of the program using household-level data from rural Nigeria. The article employed instrumental variable regression approach to control for the potent…
Agricultural technology adoption and household welfare
Previous studies on the adoption and impacts of improved crop varieties have relied on self-reported adoption status of the surveyed households. However, in the presence of weak variety maintenance and poorly functioning seed certification system, measurement errors in self-reported adoption status can be considerable. This paper investigates how such measurement errors can lead to biased welfare estimates. Using DNA-fingerprinting based varietal…
Who benefits from which agricultural research-for-development technologies? Evidence from farm household poverty analysis in Central Africa
The role of genotyping in measuring improved variety adoption and impact
Engaging with cultural practices in ways that benefit women in northern Nigeria
This study explores the intra-household impact of improved dual-purpose cowpea (IDPC) from\na gender perspective, in terms of productivity and food, fodder, and income availability, the\nimpact of which is linked to the income thus placed in the women’s hands. Surplus income is\nimportant in providing food and nutritional benefits to the home, particularly during periods\nof risk. More importantly, income generated through the adoption of improve…
Engaging with cultural practices in ways that benefit women in northern Nigeria
This study explores the intra-household impact of improved dual-purpose cowpea (IDPC) from\na gender perspective, in terms of productivity and food, fodder, and income availability, the\nimpact of which is linked to the income thus placed in the women’s hands. Surplus income is\nimportant in providing food and nutritional benefits to the home, particularly during periods\nof risk. More importantly, income generated through the adoption of improve…
Impacts of extension access and cooperative membership on technology adoption and household welfare
This paper examines the impacts of access to extension services and cooperative membership on technology adoption, asset ownership and poverty using household-level data from rural Nigeria. Using different matching techniques and endogenous switching regression approach, we find that both extension access and cooperative membership have a positive and statistically significant effect on technology adoption and household welfare. Moreover, we find…
Productivity and Welfare Effects of Nigeria's e-Voucher-Based Input Subsidy Program
In an attempt to go beyond the so called " smart " subsidies, Nigeria has embarked on a potentially innovative mobile phone-based input subsidy program that provides fertilizer and improved seed subsidies through electronic vouchers. In this article, we examined the productivity and welfare effects of the program using household-level data from rural Nigeria. The article employed instrumental variable regression approach to control for the potent…
Who benefits from which agricultural research-for-development technologies? Evidence from farm household poverty analysis in Central Africa
Agricultural technology adoption and household welfare
Previous studies on the adoption and impacts of improved crop varieties have relied on self-reported adoption status of the surveyed households. However, in the presence of weak variety maintenance and poorly functioning seed certification system, measurement errors in self-reported adoption status can be considerable. This paper investigates how such measurement errors can lead to biased welfare estimates. Using DNA-fingerprinting based varietal…
Smallholder farmers' willingness to pay for two‐wheel tractor‐based mechanisation services in Zambia and Zimbabwe
Mechanisation is back among top development policy priorities for transforming African smallholder agriculture. Yet previous and ongoing efforts ubiquitously suffer from lack of scientific information on end‐user effective demand for different types of mechanical innovations to inform public investment or business development programmes. We assess smallholder farmers' willingness to pay (WTP) for two‐wheel tractor (2WT)‐based ripping, direct seed…
Too fast or too slow
The role of genotyping in measuring improved variety adoption and impact
Economics (7 works) · Agricultural Innovations and Practices (6 works) · Agriculture (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Agricultural economics (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion (3 works) · Natural resource economics (3 works) · Poverty (3 works)