Impact of Joint Multiple Agricultural Technology Production of Beans on Household Nutrition Outcome in East Africa

Abstract

This study analyzes the impact of beans produced under joint multiple agricultural technologies (Improved beans variety, soil carbon management, integrated pest control, and use of compost manure) on nutrition outcome of stunting, underweight, and wasting in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. Adoption of technologies in East Africa has been in isolation only focusing on single technologies. However, farmers typically adopt joint multiple agricultural technologies as complements or substitutes thus technologies to be adopted dependent on early technology choices. The objective of the study was to analyze the impact of the nutrition outcome variables in terms of stunting, wasting, and underweight for the best joint multiple agricultural technology combinations as a set of explanatory variables (z). This study adopts the multinomial endogenous switching regression model to correct for the selection bias and endogeneity. Results indicate that joint multiple agricultural technologies had a significant impact on the overall nutrition outcome in East Africa households. It is concluded that households in East Africa rarely use a single agricultural technology but rather a combination of different joint technologies in order to improve their nutrition outcome. The findings recommend that households should adopt joint multiple agricultural technologies rather than focusing on single technologies.