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Impacts of improved sorghum varieties intensification on household welfare in the mid-Zambezi Valley of Zimbabwe

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  • Joseph P. Musara
  • Lovemore Musemwa

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Attaining food and income security is a persistent challenge among small holder farmers of Southern Africa. Improved sorghum varieties are widely regarded as a panacea to extreme poverty. The paper uses endogenous switching regression to determine impacts of improved sorghum varieties intensification on household welfare. Household dietary diversity score and household food insecurity access score were used as outcome variables and proxies for food security. Cross-sectional data were generated in the Mid Zambezi Valley of Zimbabwe in 2016 from 380 households in a survey conducted with five purposively selected wards. Social association groups, average weighted market prices, household income, age of principal decision maker, dependency ratio, ownership of draught power and storage facilities have significant (p

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  • Joseph P. Musara & Lovemore Musemwa, 2020. "Impacts of improved sorghum varieties intensification on household welfare in the mid-Zambezi Valley of Zimbabwe," Agrekon, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 59(2), pages 254-267, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ragrxx:v:59:y:2020:i:2:p:254-267
    DOI: 10.1080/03031853.2020.1721306
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    1. Yonas T. Bahta & Joseph P. Musara, 2022. "Quantifying the Impact of COVID-19 Relief Vouchers Schemes on Food Security: Empirical Evidence Insights from South Africa," Land, MDPI, vol. 11(9), pages 1-21, August.
    2. Liboster Mwadzingeni & Raymond Mugandani & Paramu L. Mafongoya, 2021. "Assessing Vulnerability to Climate Change in Smallholder Irrigation Schemes of Zimbabwe," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(18), pages 1-18, September.

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