Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Marmai, Nadine
Author-Email: nadine.marmai@unito.it
Author-Workplace-Name: University of Turin
Author-Workplace-Homepage: http://www.est.unito.it/
Title: Farmers’ investments in innovative technologies in times of precipitation extremes: A statistical analysis for rural Tanzania.
Abstract: The paper shifts the focus from the exclusively devastating character of weather extremes on socio-economic 
outcomes to the possibility that positive side effects may occur. Positive side effects such as higher investments 
in improved agricultural technologies in years of weather extremes are crucial especially in rural developing areas 
to overcome the negative consequences of the shocks. For that purpose, out of all households that invest in 
improved seeds in rural Tanzania, we model the probability of high investments in improved seeds when a year of 
extreme high or low precipitation occurs. We apply a conditional dependence model for multivariate extreme values 
that so far does not ?nd application in this context. Our appraisal of re?ection on the current situation is based 
on recent data published by the World Bank’s LSMS-ISA data between 2008 and 2013. Results suggest that extreme 
precipitation events and high investments in improved seeds with respect to overall investments are dependent 
events in rural Tanzania.
Length: 31 pages 
Creation-Date: 2016-11 
File-URL: http://www.est.unito.it/do/home.pl/Download?doc=/allegati/wp2016dip/wp_17_2016.pdf
File-Format: Application/PDF
Handle: RePEc:uto:dipeco:201617