selected publications
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article
- Entrepreneurial Motivation, Psychological Capital, and Business Success of Young Entrepreneurs in the DRC. Sustainability. 13. 2021
- Household Hunger, Poverty, and Childcare in 5 States of Nigeria and Their Impacts on Nutritional Outcomes in Preschool Children. Food and Nutrition Bulletin. 2021
- Addressing gendered varietal and trait preferences in West African maize. World Development Perspectives. 20:100268. 2020
- Does cooperative membership increase and accelerate agricultural technology adoption? Empirical evidence from Zambia. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 158:120160. 2020
- The effects of foreign direct investment on youth unemployment in the Southern African Development Community. Development Southern Africa. 1-16. 2020
- Potential returns to yam research investment in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond:. Outlook on Agriculture. 49:215-224. 2020
- Willingness to pay for weather index-based insurance in semi-subsistence agriculture: evidence from northern Togo. Climate Policy. 20:534-547. 2020
- Gender and impact of climate change adaptation on soybean farmers’ revenue in rural Togo, West Africa. Cogent food & agriculture. 6:1743625. 2020
- Willingness to pay of Nigerian poultry producers and feed millers for aflatoxin‐safe maize. Agribusiness. 36:299-317. 2020
- Growing condition variations and grain prices in Niger and Nigeria. European Review of Agricultural Economics. 47:273-295. 2020
- Adoption and Ex-post Impacts of Improved Cowpea Varieties on Productivity and Net Returns in Nigeria. Journal of Agricultural Economics. 71:165-183. 2020
- Estimating Multidimensional Poverty among Cassava Producers in Nigeria: Patterns and Socioeconomic Determinants. Sustainability. 12. 2020
- Food Safety and Adverse Selection in Rural Maize Markets. Journal of Agricultural Economics. 71:412-438. 2020
- The Influence of Social Networking on Food Security Status of Cassava Farming Households in Nigeria. Sustainability. 12. 2020
- Ex‐ante evaluation of promising soybean innovations for sub‐Saharan Africa. Food and Energy Security. 8. 2019
- The poverty impacts of improved cowpea varieties in Nigeria: A counterfactual analysis.. World Development. 122:261-271. 2019
- Agricultural technology adoption and household welfare: Measurement and evidence. Food Policy. 87:101742. 2019
- Estimating the productivity impacts of technology adoption in the presence of misclassification. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 101:1-16. 2019
- Poverty Reduction Effects of Agricultural Technology Adoption: The Case of Improved Cassava Varieties in Nigeria. Journal of Agricultural Economics. 70:392-407. 2019
- Aflatoxin awareness and Aflasafe adoption potential of Nigerian smallholder maize farmers. World Mycotoxin Journal. 11:437-446. 2018
- Identifying crop research priorities based on potential economic and poverty reduction impacts: The case of cassava in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.. PLOS ONE. 13. 2018
- Storage losses, liquidity constraints, and maize storage decisions in Benin. Agricultural Economics. 49:435-454. 2018
- Impacts of improved maize varieties in Nigeria: ex-post assessment of productivity and welfare outcomes. Food Security. 10:369-379. 2018
- Evaluation of Women’s On-Farm Trial of Drought Tolerant Maize in Southern Guinea Savannah Agro-Ecological Zone of Nigeria 2018
- Measuring the impacts of adaptation strategies to drought stress: The case of drought tolerant maize varieties. Journal of Environmental Management. 203:106-113. 2017
- Productivity and Welfare Effects of Nigeria's e-Voucher-Based Input Subsidy Program. World Development. 97:251-265. 2017
- An Assessment of Willingness To Pay by Maize and Groundnut Farmers for Aflatoxin Biocontrol Product in Northern Nigeria. Journal of Food Protection. 80:1451-1460. 2017
- Will farmers intend to cultivate Provitamin A genetically modified (GM) cassava in Nigeria? Evidence from a k-means segmentation analysis of beliefs and attitudes. PLOS ONE. 12. 2017
- Characteristics of maize cultivars in Africa: How modern are they and how many do smallholder farmers grow?. Agricultural and Food Science. 6:30. 2017
- A survey of aflatoxin and aflasafe awareness and management among Nigeria poultry producers and feed millers 2017
- Cassava farmers' preferences for varieties and seed dissemination system in Nigeria: gender and regional perspectives 2017
- Evaluation of Nigerian agricultural production data. AFRICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS-AFJARE. 12:125-141. 2017
- Profitability and technical efficiency of soybean production in northern Nigeria 2017
- The cassava monitoring survey in Nigeria: final report 2017
- A technical review of modern cassava technology adoption in Nigeria (1985-2013): Trends, challenges, and opportunities 2016
- Adoption of striga (striga hermonthica) Management Technologies in Northern Nigeria. Agrekon. 55:168-188. 2016
- Impact evaluation protocols for agricultural projects: the case of Yam Improvement for Income and Food Security in West Africa; YIIFSWA working paper series, No. 7 2016
- Targeting Drought-Tolerant Maize Varieties in Southern Africa: A Geospatial Crop Modeling Approach Using Big Data. INTERNATIONAL FOOD AND AGRIBUSINESS MANAGEMENT REVIEW. 19:75-92. 2016
- Targeting Drought-Tolerant Maize Varieties in Southern Africa: A Geospatial Crop Modeling Approach Using Big Data 2016
- Ex-Ante Economic Impact Assessment of Genetically Modified Banana Resistant to Xanthomonas Wilt in the Great Lakes Region of Africa.. PLOS ONE. 10:1-21. 2015
- Impact of agricultural technology adoption on asset ownership: the case of improved cassava varieties in Nigeria. Food Security. 7:1239-1258. 2015
- Tracking crop varieties using genotyping-by-sequencing markers: a case study using cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz).. BMC Genetics. 16:115-115. 2015
- Factors influencing the use of selected inputs in yam production in Nigeria and Ghana. Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics. 116:131-142. 2015
- Identifying determinants, pressures and trade-offs of crop residue use in mixed smallholder farms in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Agricultural Systems. 134:107-118. 2015
- Is taking gender into account for development and diffusion of agricultural innovations justified? The case of drought tolerant maize in Northern Benin 2015
- Maize variety options for Africa : Benin 2015
- Maize variety options for Africa : Nigeria 2015
- The effectiveness of crop improvement programmes from the perspectives of varietal output and adoption: cassava, cowpea, soybean and yam in sub-Saharan Africa and maize in West and Central Africa 2015
- Will farmers buy and apply aflatoxin biological control agent?: a willingness-to-pay (WTP) approach in Northern Nigeria: in Tropentag 2015 management of land use systems for enhanced food security - conflicts, controversies and resolutions 2015
- Adoption of on-farm hermetic storage for cowpea in West and Central Africa in 2012. Journal of Stored Products Research. 58:77-86. 2014
- Market building for post-harvest technology through large-scale extension efforts. Journal of Stored Products Research. 58:59-66. 2014
- Analysis of drought-tolerant maize adoption and its effect on food security among farmers in the Sudan Savanna of Northeastern Nigeria 2014
- Characterization of yam-growing households in the project areas of Ghana 2014
- Contribution des femmes a l'adoption des varietes de mais tolerantes a la secheresse au Nord Benin 2014
- Determinants of adoption of agricultural innovations and profitability of cereals and legumes in the Sudan savanna of Nigeria 2014
- Economic, production, and poverty impacts of investing in maize tolerant to drought in Africa, An ex-ante assessment. Journal of Developing Areas. vol. 48. 2014
- Mid-term and cost-benefit study of smallholder farmers in Striga-Infested maize and cowpea growing areas of Northern Nigeria 2014
- Potential impacts of increasing average yields and reducing maize yield variability in africa. Food Policy. 43:213-226. 2013
- Smallholder farmers’ perceptions of and adaptations to climate change in the Nigerian savanna. Regional Environmental Change. 13:375-388. 2013
- Gender and innovation in agriculture: a case study of farmers' varietal preference of drought tolerant maize in southern Guinea Savannah region of Nigeria 2013
- Promoting the use of drought tolerant maize in Nigeria 2013
- R4D priority for yam improvement: summary of yam survey results 2013
- Conservation Agriculture in mixed crop–livestock systems: Scoping crop residue trade-offs in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Field Crops Research. 132:175-184. 2012
- Estimation of nitrogen flow within a village-farm model in Fakara region in Niger, Sahelian zone of West Africa. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems. 92:289-304. 2012
- Climate change and agricultural technology adoption: the case of drought tolerant maize in rural Nigeria. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. 17:277-292. 2012
- Adoption of PICS bags in Northern Nigeria: a case study of Jigawa, Kano, and Katsina States 2012
- Appraisal of Local Farmers? Practices on Land Management for a Guideline of Agricultural Development in the Sahel Zone of Niger 2012
- Does cassava processing research-for-development have an impact on fabricator, processor and farm level outcomes? Evidence from Nigeria. Proceedings of pre-conference workshop, 28th International Conference of Agricultural Economists 2012
- Promoting the adoption of innovations through participatory approaches: example from northern Nigeria 2012
- Purdue improved cowpea storage (PICS) technology 2012
- New social science research agenda at IITA 2011
- Integrating planting date with insecticide spraying regimes to manage insect pests of cowpea in north-eastern Nigeria.. International Journal of Pest Management. 56:243-253. 2010
- Analysing the prospect of the "IAR4D's innovation platforms" in improving the productive efficiencies of cereal-legume farmers in the Sudan Savanna of Nigeria. JOURNAL OF FOOD AGRICULTURE & ENVIRONMENT. 8:813-820. 2010
- Analysing the prospect of the IAR4D's innovation platforms in improving the productive efficienceis of cereal-legume farmers in the Sudan Savanna of Nigeria 2010
- Analysis of technical efficiency among community-based seed producers in the savannas of Borno State, Nigeria 2010
- Characterization of maize producing households in the Dry Savanna of Mali 2010
- Characterization of maize producing households in the Dry Savanna of Nigeria 2010
- Characterization of maize producing households in the Northern Region of Ghana 2010
- Evaluation of the utilization of heated sewage sludge for peri-urban horticulture production in the Sahel of West Africa. Agricultural Systems. 103:36-40. 2010
- Impact of promoting sustainable agriculture in Borno (PROSAB) program on adoption of improved crop varieties in Borno State of Nigeria. JOURNAL OF FOOD AGRICULTURE & ENVIRONMENT. 8:391-398. 2010
- Using a linear discriminant analysis approach of baseline conditions to develop household categories in the Sudan Savanna ( KKM PLS SSA CP ), Nigeria 2010
- Using a linear discriminant analysis approach of baseline conditions to develop household categories in the Sudan savanna (KKM PLS SSA CP), Nigeria. JOURNAL OF FOOD AGRICULTURE & ENVIRONMENT. 8:805-812. 2010
- Influence of nitrogen fertilization on the performance of early and late maturing maize varieties under natural infestation with Striga hermonthica (Del.) Benth. Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science. 55:125-145. 2009
- Legume and cereal seed production for improved crop yields in Nigeria: proceedings of the training workshop on Production of Legume and Cereal Seeds held on 24 January-10 February, 2008 at IITA-Kano Station, Kano, Nigeria 2009
- Response of upland rice cultivars to weed competition in the savannas of West Africa. Crop Protection. 28:90-96. 2009
- Evaluation of application timing in fertilizer micro-dosing technology on millet production in Niger, West Africa. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems. 80:257-265. 2008
- Impacts of inventory credit, input supply shops, and fertilizer microdosing in the drylands of Niger 2005
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conference paper
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document
- A manual for large-scale sample collection, preservation, tracking, DNA extraction, and variety identification analysis 2017
- Assessing the impacts of cassava technology on poverty reduction in Africa 2016
- Determinants of crop residue use along an intensification gradient in west Africa's Savannah zones 2016
- Smallholder management of diverse soil nutrient resources in West Africa economics and policy implications 2016
- Testing alternative methods of varietal identification using DNA fingerprinting: results of pilot studies in Ghana and Zambia 2016
- A microeconometric analysis of household consumption expenditure determinants in yam-growing areas of Nigeria and Ghana 2015
- Baseline report of the humidtropics program for Nigeria and Cameroon 2015
- Crop residue usage and its determinants in Kano State, Nigeria 2015
- Maize variety options for Africa : Ghana 2015
- PICS bags: chemical-free crop storage 2015
- Assessing the extent and determinants of adoption of improved cassava varieties in south-western Nigeria 2014
- Characterization of yam-growing households in the project areas of Nigeria 2014
- Economics of maize, soybean and cowpea processing in the northern regions of Ghana 2014
- Results of a global online expert survey: major constraints, opportunities, and trends for yam production and marketing and priorities for future RTB yam research. RTB working paper 2014-4 2014
- Strategic Assessment of Yam Research Priorities. RTB working paper 2014-3 2014
- An impact assessment of the cassava enterprise development project. (BOOK) 2013
- Socioeconomic assessment of adoption of production and processing technologies on farming households in Nigeria 2013
- A success tale on improving two legume crops in Africa 2012
- Priorities for a global cassava research program to improve food security and incomes in developing countries: A survey of experts 2012
- Priorities for a global cassava research program to improve food security and incomes in developing countries: a survey of experts. Proceedings of the 16th Triennial Symposium of the International Society for Tropical Root Crops (ISTRC) 2012
- Assessing the participation of IITA in cassava processing activities in Nigeria 2011
- Study of the dynamics of resource use and identification of policy gaps in agricultural production, processing and marketing in the Sudan Savannas of Northern Nigeria 2011
- Assessing the re-use of PICS bags in Jigawa, Kano, and Katsina States of Northern Nigeria: Poster presentation at the 5th World Cowpea Research Conference, held at Palm Beach Hotel, Saly, Senegal, 27 September - 1 October 2010
- Impact of promoting sustainable agriculture in Borno (PROSAB) program on adoption of improved crop varieties in Borno State of Nigeria 2010
- Potential impact of investments in drought tolerant maize in Africa 2010
- Assessing the constraints affecting production and deployment of maize seed in DTMA countries of West Africa 2009
- Economics of seed production and the seed industry: case studies from Niger Republic and Borno State, Nigeria 2009
- Rheological and sensory properties of rice varieties from improvement programs in Ghana 2009
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editorial article
- “Estimating the Productivity Impacts of Technology Adoption in the Presence of Misclassification”—Author Response to Comment. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 101:19-19. 2019
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review
- African Rural Youth Engagement in Agribusiness: Achievements, Limitations, and Lessons. Sustainability. 2019