EfD Ethiopia conducted a half-day stakeholder workshop as part of the IGE capacity-building program in December 2023. The workshop focused on economic policy instruments to reduce biomass dependency…
Vietnam's seafood industry, a cornerstone of the nation's economy, grapples with challenges like water pollution, low productivity, and inefficiency. A groundbreaking study by EfD Vietnam researchers…
We are honored to have Jan Steckel as our first speaker for the year. Jan is an accomplished researcher based at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) where he…
COP 28 in Dubai was the largest COP ever. With about 100,000 registered participants it was more than twice as large as last year's COP in Sharm-el-Sheikh, which was the largest by then. According to…
The theme of the SOCHER 2023 meeting in the city of Valdivia in southern Chile was Territorial Challenges and Sustainability. Several EfD Chile fellow researchers, academics, and alumni from various…
Dr. Bas van Ruijven (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis) will be discussing global future energy demands and household energy access, and how climate change will affect these demands…
Carlos Chávez and César Salazar , fellow researchers from EfD Chile, are part of a team of Chilean scientists that has received funding from the Chilean Ministry of Environment to develop a tool that…
EfD Nigeria, in partnership with EfD Ghana, conducted a training session for fishery officers and policymakers on how to apply simple bioeconomic analysis to develop a fisheries management plan for…
Purpose
This paper aims to understand the causes of low adoption of hybrid rice technology. The paper also assesses the impact of adoption of hybrids and modern varieties on crop yield, vis-à-vis the old or traditional varieties.
Design/methodology/approach
Using unit-level data from a large-scale survey of farm households (19,877 paddy cultivators), the authors applied multi-nomial regression method to understand the factors for adoption of hybrid rice and instrumental variable method of regression to estimate its impact.
Findings
In contrast to previous research, which suggests that women's employment rises during negative household income shocks in low-income economies, the findings in this study, reveal that, despite an increased likelihood of seeking work due to aggregate income shocks, women's employment may not rise if their labor mobility is constrained. Moreover, the impact of climatic shocks may be enduring. The cross-sectional analysis indicates that gender disparities in non-farm employment and migration are more pronounced in villages exposed to higher risks from rainfall variability.