Beyond the field: Impact of Farmer Field Schools on food security and poverty alleviation
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Beyond the field : Impact of Farmer Field Schools on food security and poverty alleviation. / Lilleør, Helene Bie; Larsen, Anna Folke.
Copenhagen : Rockwool Foundation, 2013.Research output: Working paper › Research
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TY - UNPB
T1 - Beyond the field
T2 - Impact of Farmer Field Schools on food security and poverty alleviation
AU - Lilleør, Helene Bie
AU - Larsen, Anna Folke
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - In this paper, we estimate the impact of a farmer field school intervention among small scale farmers in Northers Tanzania. Unlike previous farmer field school evaluations, we go beyond the immediate agricultural impact and estimate the impact of farmer field school participation in the pre-specified development objects, namely poverty alleviation and food security among participating households. We wxploit the implementation design of a gradual project roll-out to establish a quasi-experimental difference-in-difference setup, which can account for potential selection info the project, both at village and household level, despite the lack of baseline data. we find strong positive effects on measures of food security, but we find no effect on the poverty indicators. We investigate possible mechanisms for this and conclude that both reallocation of labor ressources and improved production smoothing among participation households may, in part, lead to this finding.
AB - In this paper, we estimate the impact of a farmer field school intervention among small scale farmers in Northers Tanzania. Unlike previous farmer field school evaluations, we go beyond the immediate agricultural impact and estimate the impact of farmer field school participation in the pre-specified development objects, namely poverty alleviation and food security among participating households. We wxploit the implementation design of a gradual project roll-out to establish a quasi-experimental difference-in-difference setup, which can account for potential selection info the project, both at village and household level, despite the lack of baseline data. we find strong positive effects on measures of food security, but we find no effect on the poverty indicators. We investigate possible mechanisms for this and conclude that both reallocation of labor ressources and improved production smoothing among participation households may, in part, lead to this finding.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - impact accessment
KW - farmer field schools
KW - quasi difference-in-difference
KW - food security
KW - poverty
KW - gradual roll-out
KW - Tanzania
KW - Africa
M3 - Working paper
T3 - Rockwool Working Paper
BT - Beyond the field
PB - Rockwool Foundation
CY - Copenhagen
ER -
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