The impact of adoption of milk safety practices on food and nutrition security: Evidence from smallholder dairy farmers in Ethiopia
Despite the progress observed over the past decades, food and nutritional insecurity remain the prominent challenges in Ethiopia. In this respect, improved farming practices and productivity-enhancing agricultural technologies have been identified as pathways out of these problems; these technologie...
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| description | Despite the progress observed over the past decades, food and nutritional insecurity remain the prominent challenges in Ethiopia. In this respect, improved farming practices and productivity-enhancing agricultural technologies have been identified as pathways out of these problems; these technologies are the priority agenda of the government policy in Ethiopia. Nonetheless, the impact of the adoption of milk safety practices on dairy farmers’ food and nutrition security has not yet been addressed, especially at the smallholder farmers’ level. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of the adoption of milk safety practices on dairy farmers’ food and nutrition security in Ethiopia, using primary data collected from 410 dairy farmers. Generalized propensity score matching was used to evaluate the heterogeneous impact of the adoption of milk safety practices on the household food and nutrition security indicators (per capita food consumption expenditure and food consumption score). The findings reveal that the adoption of milk safety practices had a moderate impact on food consumption expenditure but had no significant impact on food consumption score. An ordered probit endogenous switching regression was also used to account for unobserved bias and check the robustness of the generalized propensity score estimates. Accordingly, the results are similar to the generalized propensity score estimates, and unobserved bias was not a problem. In general, the impact of adoption of milk safety practices on food and nutrition security of smallholder dairy farmers is moderate in Ethiopia. This might be because of the high compliance costs with the adoption of milk safety practices and the lack of quality-based pricing systems. Hence, creating an enabling environment, which in turn, encourages the adoption of milk safety practices would help improve positive effects of the adoption of milk safety practices on food and nutritional security. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b0c1ab32b5934659b5af1f00e288c1192023-12-12T04:35:29ZengElsevierResearch in Globalization2590-051X2023-12-017100157The impact of adoption of milk safety practices on food and nutrition security: Evidence from smallholder dairy farmers in EthiopiaBekele Wegi Feyisa0Jema Haji1Alisher Mirzabaev2School of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, Haramaya University, P. O. Box 138, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia; Corresponding author.School of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, Haramaya University, P. O. Box 138, Dire Dawa, EthiopiaDepartment of Economic and Technological Change, Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Genscherallee 3, D53115 Bonn, GermanyDespite the progress observed over the past decades, food and nutritional insecurity remain the prominent challenges in Ethiopia. In this respect, improved farming practices and productivity-enhancing agricultural technologies have been identified as pathways out of these problems; these technologies are the priority agenda of the government policy in Ethiopia. Nonetheless, the impact of the adoption of milk safety practices on dairy farmers’ food and nutrition security has not yet been addressed, especially at the smallholder farmers’ level. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of the adoption of milk safety practices on dairy farmers’ food and nutrition security in Ethiopia, using primary data collected from 410 dairy farmers. Generalized propensity score matching was used to evaluate the heterogeneous impact of the adoption of milk safety practices on the household food and nutrition security indicators (per capita food consumption expenditure and food consumption score). The findings reveal that the adoption of milk safety practices had a moderate impact on food consumption expenditure but had no significant impact on food consumption score. An ordered probit endogenous switching regression was also used to account for unobserved bias and check the robustness of the generalized propensity score estimates. Accordingly, the results are similar to the generalized propensity score estimates, and unobserved bias was not a problem. In general, the impact of adoption of milk safety practices on food and nutrition security of smallholder dairy farmers is moderate in Ethiopia. This might be because of the high compliance costs with the adoption of milk safety practices and the lack of quality-based pricing systems. Hence, creating an enabling environment, which in turn, encourages the adoption of milk safety practices would help improve positive effects of the adoption of milk safety practices on food and nutritional security.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590051X23000473Food and nutrition securityDairy farmersGeneralized propensity scoreOrdered probit endogenous switching regressionMilk safety practicesEthiopia |
| spellingShingle | Bekele Wegi Feyisa Jema Haji Alisher Mirzabaev The impact of adoption of milk safety practices on food and nutrition security: Evidence from smallholder dairy farmers in Ethiopia Research in Globalization Food and nutrition security Dairy farmers Generalized propensity score Ordered probit endogenous switching regression Milk safety practices Ethiopia |
| title | The impact of adoption of milk safety practices on food and nutrition security: Evidence from smallholder dairy farmers in Ethiopia |
| title_full | The impact of adoption of milk safety practices on food and nutrition security: Evidence from smallholder dairy farmers in Ethiopia |
| title_fullStr | The impact of adoption of milk safety practices on food and nutrition security: Evidence from smallholder dairy farmers in Ethiopia |
| title_full_unstemmed | The impact of adoption of milk safety practices on food and nutrition security: Evidence from smallholder dairy farmers in Ethiopia |
| title_short | The impact of adoption of milk safety practices on food and nutrition security: Evidence from smallholder dairy farmers in Ethiopia |
| title_sort | impact of adoption of milk safety practices on food and nutrition security evidence from smallholder dairy farmers in ethiopia |
| topic | Food and nutrition security Dairy farmers Generalized propensity score Ordered probit endogenous switching regression Milk safety practices Ethiopia |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590051X23000473 |
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