Impacts of the joint adoption of improved varieties and chemical fertilizers on rice productivity in Bolivia: implications for Global Food Systems

• DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2023.1194930
• Publication Date: 2023-08-24T22:23:39Z
• Authors: Jose Maria Martinez; Ricardo A. Labarta; Carolina Gonzalez
• Keywords: Staple food; Agricultural machinery

Rice research and technology development in Latin America has increased yields offered the opportunity for several countries to contribute global food security by becoming net exporters of this cereal. In spite broad availability rice technologies region, remain substantially low like Bolivia. This study examines how Bolivian growers make simultaneous decisions about adopting improved varieties chemical fertilizers joint decision influences productivity crop. By exploiting a nationally representative survey producers, we use multinomial logit model an optimal instrumental variable approach both correlates adoption impacts on yields. Our findings suggest that partial or does not affect yields, but these can almost double productivity. Promoting packages agricultural technologies—instead single within efforts available small farmers—would exploit complementarities different boost The implications would only be achieve desired self-sufficiency production also follow similar pathways other region have become are contributing Global Food Systems.