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Indifferent to difference? Understanding the unequal impacts of farming technologies among smallholders. A review by Eva S. Thuijsman; Harmen J. den Braber; Jens A. Andersson; Katrien Descheemaeker; Frédéric Baudron; Santiago López-Ridaura; Bernard Vanlauwe; Ken E. Giller is a Agricultural and Biological Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Abstract With many of the world’s poor engaged in agriculture, agricultural development programmes often aim to improve livelihoods through improved farming practices. Research on the impacts of agricultural technology interventions is dominated by comparisons of adopters and non-adopters. By contrast, in this literature study, we critically review how technology evaluation studies assess differentiated impacts in smallholder farming communities. We searched systematically for studies which present agricultural technology impacts disaggregated for poor and relatively better-off users (adopters). The major findings of our systematic review are as follows: (1) The number of studies that assessed impact differentiation was startlingly small: we were able to identify only 85, among which only 24 presented empirical findings. (2) These studies confirm an expected trend: absolute benefits are larger for the better-off, and large relative benefits among the poor are mostly due to meagre baseline performance. (3) Households are primarily considered as independent entities, rather than as connected with others directly or indirectly, via markets or common resource pools. (4) Explanations
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- Author
- Eva S. Thuijsman; Harmen J. den Braber; Jens A. Andersson; Katrien Descheemaeker; Frédéric Baudron; Santiago López-Ridaura; Bernard Vanlauwe; Ken E. Giller
- Publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)