Adoption and impacts of improved chickpea on productivity and food security in Ethiopia

Abstract

This report analyzed the impact of improved chickpea adoption on productivity and food security in rural Ethiopia? We estimate the effect of improved chickpea adoption on productivity with instrumental variable regression. We rely on Negative Binomial regression to analyse the impact of adopting improved chickpea on food and nutrition security. We found that chickpea adoption significantly increases chickpea productivity in Ethiopia. In addition, crop chemicals and hired labour had a positive and significant effect on productivity. Government can therefore initially introduce input subsidies for chickpea farmers since the new improved seeds are associated with higher input use compared to the traditional varieties.