Aminou Arouna

Biographic Data

ID180883
NAMEAminou Arouna
GIVEN NAMESAminou
FAMILY NAMEArouna
SIGNATUREAROUNA A
AFFILIATIONSAfrica Rice Center
ORCID0000-0001-9118-472X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS10
WORKS AS AUTHOR4
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Can site-specific recommendations reduce technology and managerial gaps? Evidence from RiceAdvice in the Senegal River Valley

    Open AccessAminou Arouna, Eric S Owusu et al.ARTICLEEmpirical Economics2025

    This paper assesses the effects of the adoption of site-specific recommendations generated through an Android app called RiceAdvice on rice farmers’ technological advantage and managerial performance in the Senegal River Valley (SRV). The study uses data collected through multi-stratified sampling procedures and comprises 1200 adopters and non-adopters of the app. Our approach involves addressing both selection bias and differences in production …

  • Analyzing Farmers' Behavior in the Adoption of Paid Digital Extension Service

    Open AccessRico Amoussouhoui, Aminou Arouna et al.ARTICLEHuman Ecology2024References: 54

  • Moving toward rice self-sufficiency in sub-Saharan Africa by 2030

    Open AccessAminou Arouna, Irene Akoko Fatognon et al.ARTICLEWorld Development Perspectives2021References: 8

    The Coalition for African Rice Development (CARD) was initiated as a policy framework with the aim of doubling rice production in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) over the period from 2008 to 2018. This paper assesses the contribution of the CARD policy to rice production and forecasts the local rice supply and demand to provide a better understanding of the policies needed to attain rice self-sufficiency by 2030. A combination of the autoregressive inte…

  • Contract farming and rural transformation

    Open AccessAminou Arouna, Jeffrey D Michler et al.ARTICLEJournal of Development Economics2021Cited by: 10References: 5

    Contract farming has emerged as a popular mechanism to encourage vertical coordination in developing country agriculture. Yet, there is a lack of consensus on its ability to spur structural transformation in rural economies. We present results from a field experiment on contract farming for rice production in Benin. While all contracts have positive effects on welfare and productivity measures, we find that the simplest contract has impacts nearl…