Martin Paul Jr Tabe‐ojong
Biographic Data
| ID | 3588291 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Paul Jr Tabe‐ojong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin Paul Jr |
| FAMILY NAME | Tabe‐ojong |
| SIGNATURE | OJONG M P J T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Central University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6546-9921 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The heat is on
We examine the impact of extreme heat on the use of productive and defensive inputs in agriculture. We combine earth observation data on extreme temperature with rich panel data from West Africa. We find that in response to extreme temperatures, farmers reduce the use of productive inputs such as fertilizers at both extensive and intensive margins. This holds for both inorganic and organic fertilizers. As farmers reduce the use of these productiv…
Extreme heat and markets
We investigate how exposure to extreme temperature affects smallholder commercialization. We examine a range of outcomes that indicate the degree of commercialization, including market participation, sales quantity, commercialization index, and sales revenue, which serves as an indicator of monetary benefit. Recognizing the non-separability between production and commercialization, we also examine how extreme temperature directly affects agricult…
Do Producer organizations Promote Climate-Smart Agriculture? assessing direct and spillover effects in Nigeria
Climate change threatens the livelihoods of millions of smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond, yet the adoption of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) remains low. In this paper, we examine the role of producer organizations (POs) in promoting CSA adoption among their members and non-members through spillover effects. We rely on a three-wave panel dataset of over 1,500 farm households fielded between 2017 and 2019 and estimated the mul…
Social and Financial Barriers to Safe (Drinking) Water and Sanitation
The use of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) practices remains an important development agenda, but their use is currently low in many developing countries owing to several social and financial barriers. In this paper, we investigate the role of development agents (DAs) in stirring the use of safe drinking water and sanitation practices. We examine access to DAs at the extensive and intensive margins and relate this to some WASH practices such…
Social protection and aquatic food systems
Tying social protection to the blue economy—using marine resources for rural economic growth and improved livelihoods while preserving the health of the ocean ecosystem - is potentially a powerful and sustainable means of improving small-scale fisheries. This paper examines critical links between social protection and the blue economy, emphasizing small-scale fisheries as part of a broader transformative social protection agenda. In the face of c…
Action against invasive species
Turning up the heat
We examine the impact of extreme heat on household labor allocation in Ghana, Mali, and Nigeria using earth observation and microdata from Ghana. We find that extreme heat affects household labor in distinct ways with significant cross-country heterogeneities. In Nigeria, extreme heat reduces labor use at the extensive margin but increases labor use at the intensive margin. Notably, child labor rises while adult labor declines at the extensive ma…
Armed conflict, community-based cash transfers, and social cohesion
Oil Palm Production and Educational Outcomes
Oil palm production continues to expand in many developing countries in the tropics. Its expansion has been associated with economic gains, but oil palm production could also have immense social implications, especially affecting human capital development with significant labour implications. We use a farm household dataset from a native but emerging oil palm production zone, Cameroon to examine the relationship between oil palm production and ch…
Organic soil amendments and food security
Food insecurity remains a persistent policy issue in many developing countries. While socio‐political, epidemiological, climatic, and productivity‐related factors have received attention regarding food insecurity, a rarely considered factor is the changing quality of the soil, a natural resource base that has the potential of increasing or reducing vulnerability to food insecurity. The use of organic soil amendments may be socioeconomically and e…
Soil conservation and smallholder welfare under cassava‐based systems in Thailand
Land degradation, declining soil fertility, and erosion continue to plague agricultural production in many developing countries. In response to these farm production constraints and environmental challenges, a range of soil conservation technologies and practices have been developed and disseminated to tackle soil nutrient and fertility declines. However, evidence on the association between soil conservation, farm performance, and smallholder wel…
Climate-smart agriculture and food security
In the face of climate change and extreme weather events which continue to have significant impacts on agricultural production, climate-smart agriculture (CSA) has emerged as one important entry point in reducing the emission of greenhouse gases and building climate resilience while ensuring increases in agricultural productivity with ensuing implications on food and nutrition security. We examine the relationship between CSA, land productivity (…
Oil palm production, income gains, and off-farm employment among independent producers in Cameroon
Digital tools and agricultural market transformation in Africa
Despite enthusiasm for the potential of digital innovations to transform agricultural markets in Africa, progress made thus far has been limited to small-scale experiments that often fail to scale up. Realizing the full potential of digital innovations – tools, technologies, applications, and services – in Africa requires not just further development of these solutions at meaningful scales, but also more nuanced evidence from both successful and …
Does Agricultural Commercialisation Increase Asset and Livestock Accumulation on Smallholder Farms in Ethiopia
The transition of farmers from subsistence to market-oriented agriculture is meant to reduce hunger, increase wellbeing and accelerate rural economic progress. While an impressive extant literature has analysed agricultural commercialisation effects on welfare from an income, expenditure and consumption perspective, authors place less attention on the implications on asset holdings, which is a more robust long-term measure of welfare. Using chick…
Ecological shocks and non-cognitive skills
Action against invasive species
Religiosity and parental educational aspirations for children in Kenya
Poor households make little investments in human capital, despite the potential benefits and are hence trapped in poverty. To overcome this poverty trap, households can invest more in children’s education as such investments reflect hopes and aspirations to break the intergenerational poverty chain. In this study, we examine the relationship between religiosity and parental educational aspirations for their children in rural Kenya. We study relig…
Oil palm expansion among non-industrial producers in Cameroon
Aspiration Formation and Ecological Shocks in Rural Kenya
Aspirations have been shown to affect households’ decisions around productive investments, but little work explores how aspirations are formed or eroded, especially in the face of ecological threats. While ecological threats may erode social and economic capital, there is no consensus on their effect on internal factors such as aspirations. We use the spread of three invasive species as our measure of ecological stressors and shocks. While all th…
Efficiency differentials in resource-use among smallholder cassava farmers in southwestern Cameroon
Cassava has been identified as one of the staples that can reduce food security and help achieve the Sustainable Development Goal of “zero hunger”. This article aims to estimate the efficiency levels of cassava producers in the Southwest region of Cameroon and to identify factors that account for efficiency differentials. The results show that, on average, cassava farmers are 64% technically efficient under the constant returns to scale and 96% u…
Digital tools and agricultural market transformation in Africa
Despite enthusiasm for the potential of digital innovations to transform agricultural markets in Africa, progress made thus far has been limited to small-scale experiments that often fail to scale up. Realizing the full potential of digital innovations – tools, technologies, applications, and services – in Africa requires not just further development of these solutions at meaningful scales, but also more nuanced evidence from both successful and …
Aspiration Formation and Ecological Shocks in Rural Kenya
Aspirations have been shown to affect households’ decisions around productive investments, but little work explores how aspirations are formed or eroded, especially in the face of ecological threats. While ecological threats may erode social and economic capital, there is no consensus on their effect on internal factors such as aspirations. We use the spread of three invasive species as our measure of ecological stressors and shocks. While all th…
Oil palm production, income gains, and off-farm employment among independent producers in Cameroon
Ecological shocks and non-cognitive skills
Action against invasive species
Social protection and aquatic food systems
Tying social protection to the blue economy—using marine resources for rural economic growth and improved livelihoods while preserving the health of the ocean ecosystem - is potentially a powerful and sustainable means of improving small-scale fisheries. This paper examines critical links between social protection and the blue economy, emphasizing small-scale fisheries as part of a broader transformative social protection agenda. In the face of c…
Climate-smart agriculture and food security
In the face of climate change and extreme weather events which continue to have significant impacts on agricultural production, climate-smart agriculture (CSA) has emerged as one important entry point in reducing the emission of greenhouse gases and building climate resilience while ensuring increases in agricultural productivity with ensuing implications on food and nutrition security. We examine the relationship between CSA, land productivity (…
Oil palm expansion among non-industrial producers in Cameroon
Efficiency differentials in resource-use among smallholder cassava farmers in southwestern Cameroon
Cassava has been identified as one of the staples that can reduce food security and help achieve the Sustainable Development Goal of “zero hunger”. This article aims to estimate the efficiency levels of cassava producers in the Southwest region of Cameroon and to identify factors that account for efficiency differentials. The results show that, on average, cassava farmers are 64% technically efficient under the constant returns to scale and 96% u…
Efficiency differentials in resource-use among smallholder cassava farmers in southwestern Cameroon
Cassava has been identified as one of the staples that can reduce food security and help achieve the Sustainable Development Goal of “zero hunger”. This article aims to estimate the efficiency levels of cassava producers in the Southwest region of Cameroon and to identify factors that account for efficiency differentials. The results show that, on average, cassava farmers are 64% technically efficient under the constant returns to scale and 96% u…
Religiosity and parental educational aspirations for children in Kenya
Poor households make little investments in human capital, despite the potential benefits and are hence trapped in poverty. To overcome this poverty trap, households can invest more in children’s education as such investments reflect hopes and aspirations to break the intergenerational poverty chain. In this study, we examine the relationship between religiosity and parental educational aspirations for their children in rural Kenya. We study relig…
Oil palm expansion among non-industrial producers in Cameroon
Aspiration Formation and Ecological Shocks in Rural Kenya
Aspirations have been shown to affect households’ decisions around productive investments, but little work explores how aspirations are formed or eroded, especially in the face of ecological threats. While ecological threats may erode social and economic capital, there is no consensus on their effect on internal factors such as aspirations. We use the spread of three invasive species as our measure of ecological stressors and shocks. While all th…
Does Agricultural Commercialisation Increase Asset and Livestock Accumulation on Smallholder Farms in Ethiopia
The transition of farmers from subsistence to market-oriented agriculture is meant to reduce hunger, increase wellbeing and accelerate rural economic progress. While an impressive extant literature has analysed agricultural commercialisation effects on welfare from an income, expenditure and consumption perspective, authors place less attention on the implications on asset holdings, which is a more robust long-term measure of welfare. Using chick…
Ecological shocks and non-cognitive skills
Action against invasive species
Organic soil amendments and food security
Food insecurity remains a persistent policy issue in many developing countries. While socio‐political, epidemiological, climatic, and productivity‐related factors have received attention regarding food insecurity, a rarely considered factor is the changing quality of the soil, a natural resource base that has the potential of increasing or reducing vulnerability to food insecurity. The use of organic soil amendments may be socioeconomically and e…
Soil conservation and smallholder welfare under cassava‐based systems in Thailand
Land degradation, declining soil fertility, and erosion continue to plague agricultural production in many developing countries. In response to these farm production constraints and environmental challenges, a range of soil conservation technologies and practices have been developed and disseminated to tackle soil nutrient and fertility declines. However, evidence on the association between soil conservation, farm performance, and smallholder wel…
Climate-smart agriculture and food security
In the face of climate change and extreme weather events which continue to have significant impacts on agricultural production, climate-smart agriculture (CSA) has emerged as one important entry point in reducing the emission of greenhouse gases and building climate resilience while ensuring increases in agricultural productivity with ensuing implications on food and nutrition security. We examine the relationship between CSA, land productivity (…
Oil palm production, income gains, and off-farm employment among independent producers in Cameroon
Digital tools and agricultural market transformation in Africa
Despite enthusiasm for the potential of digital innovations to transform agricultural markets in Africa, progress made thus far has been limited to small-scale experiments that often fail to scale up. Realizing the full potential of digital innovations – tools, technologies, applications, and services – in Africa requires not just further development of these solutions at meaningful scales, but also more nuanced evidence from both successful and …
Oil Palm Production and Educational Outcomes
Oil palm production continues to expand in many developing countries in the tropics. Its expansion has been associated with economic gains, but oil palm production could also have immense social implications, especially affecting human capital development with significant labour implications. We use a farm household dataset from a native but emerging oil palm production zone, Cameroon to examine the relationship between oil palm production and ch…
Social and Financial Barriers to Safe (Drinking) Water and Sanitation
The use of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) practices remains an important development agenda, but their use is currently low in many developing countries owing to several social and financial barriers. In this paper, we investigate the role of development agents (DAs) in stirring the use of safe drinking water and sanitation practices. We examine access to DAs at the extensive and intensive margins and relate this to some WASH practices such…
Social protection and aquatic food systems
Tying social protection to the blue economy—using marine resources for rural economic growth and improved livelihoods while preserving the health of the ocean ecosystem - is potentially a powerful and sustainable means of improving small-scale fisheries. This paper examines critical links between social protection and the blue economy, emphasizing small-scale fisheries as part of a broader transformative social protection agenda. In the face of c…
Action against invasive species
Turning up the heat
We examine the impact of extreme heat on household labor allocation in Ghana, Mali, and Nigeria using earth observation and microdata from Ghana. We find that extreme heat affects household labor in distinct ways with significant cross-country heterogeneities. In Nigeria, extreme heat reduces labor use at the extensive margin but increases labor use at the intensive margin. Notably, child labor rises while adult labor declines at the extensive ma…
Armed conflict, community-based cash transfers, and social cohesion
The heat is on
We examine the impact of extreme heat on the use of productive and defensive inputs in agriculture. We combine earth observation data on extreme temperature with rich panel data from West Africa. We find that in response to extreme temperatures, farmers reduce the use of productive inputs such as fertilizers at both extensive and intensive margins. This holds for both inorganic and organic fertilizers. As farmers reduce the use of these productiv…
Extreme heat and markets
We investigate how exposure to extreme temperature affects smallholder commercialization. We examine a range of outcomes that indicate the degree of commercialization, including market participation, sales quantity, commercialization index, and sales revenue, which serves as an indicator of monetary benefit. Recognizing the non-separability between production and commercialization, we also examine how extreme temperature directly affects agricult…
Do Producer organizations Promote Climate-Smart Agriculture? assessing direct and spillover effects in Nigeria
Climate change threatens the livelihoods of millions of smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond, yet the adoption of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) remains low. In this paper, we examine the role of producer organizations (POs) in promoting CSA adoption among their members and non-members through spillover effects. We rely on a three-wave panel dataset of over 1,500 farm households fielded between 2017 and 2019 and estimated the mul…
Economics (15 works) · Business (12 works) · Agricultural Innovations and Practices (9 works) · Agricultural economics (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Agriculture (7 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Environmental Science (7 works) · Natural resource economics (7 works) · Biology (6 works)