Franklin Simtowe

TL;DR: In this paper, the potential impact of adoption of improved legume technologies on rural household welfare measured by consumption expenditure in rural Ethiopia and Tanzania was evaluated by using endogenous switching regression, which helps to estimate the true welfare effect of technology adoption by controlling for the role of selection problem on production and adoption decisions.

TL;DR: In this paper, an economywide model is developed for the study and is applied to the most recent economic data and public investment information to analyze agricultural growth and investment options for poverty reduction in Rwanda.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the driving forces behind farmers' decisions to adopt agricultural technologies and the causal impact of adoption on farmers' integration into output market using data obtained from a random cross-section sample of 700 farmers in Ethiopia.

TL;DR: In this paper, a range of options were evaluated, from grain/legume intercrops of long-duration pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan) and groundnut (Arachis hypogaea) rotated with maize (Zea mays), to a relay green manure system of maize with Tephrosia vogelii (Fishbean).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the impact of adoption of improved pigeonpea technologies on consumption expenditure and poverty status using cross-sectional data of 613 households from rural Tanzania.