The impact of technical assistance and rural extension for poor family farmers

The case of the Dom Hélder Câmara II Program

Bibliographic Data

ID4011104
AuthorsMauro Eduardo Del Grossi (0000-0003-0091-0701, Universidade de Brasília), Ludgero C Galli Vieira (0000-0002-9411-6666, Universidade de Brasília), Mario Lucio De Avila (0000-0003-4631-5932, Universidade de Brasília), Mireya Eugenia Valencia Perafan (0000-0003-0236-9154, Universidade de Brasília), Reinaldo José De Miranda Filho (0000-0002-9622-2681, Universidade de Brasília)
Year2024
Volume62
Issue2
Publication date2024-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevista de Economia e Sociologia Rural (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0103-2003 • E-ISSN: 1806-9479
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/1806-9479.2022.271282en
OpenAlexW4388827613
LanguageEN
References cited11

This study evaluates the impact of technical assistance and rural extension provided by the Dom Hélder Câmara Project (PDHC II) in the Brazilian semiarid region, which aimed to reduce the poverty levels and inequalities in the region, qualifying family farmers to develop sustainable production and encouraging the replication of good agricultural practices. Using the propensity score matching method, 16 different indicators of the assisted families and the control group were analyzed, involving monetary and nonmonetary incomes. The results indicate that the program was successful in benefiting poor or extremely poor families in this region, providing technical assistance and rural extension and, for a fraction of them, access to the Rural Funding Program. In addition, PDHC II achieved its objectives of providing an increase in agricultural production and in the income of the beneficiaries, with an even more prominent impact among those who received remittances from funding program. It can be concluded that technical assistance and rural extension were effective, benefiting poor family farmers in the Brazilian semiarid region and having a larger impact when associated with productive funding resources

Agricultural economics · Agricultural extension · Agricultural science · Agriculture · Business · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Impact evaluation · Inequality · Matching (statistics) · Political science · Poverty · Production (economics) · Propensity score matching · Rural area · Rural poverty · Agricultural Innovations and Practices · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion · Rural Development and Agriculture

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