@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2022.0833, 

TITLE={Impact of good agricultural practices on cashew nut crop yields in Senegal}, 
  
AUTHOR={Blaise Waly Basse, Souleymane Mbaye, Omar Diop, }, 
	
JOURNAL={Science, Technology, Development}, 
	
VOLUME={2}, 

NUMBER={Issue 1}, 
	
YEAR={2022}, 

URL={http://www.openscience.fr/Impact-of-good-agricultural-practices-on-cashew-nut-crop-yields-in-Senegal}, 
	
DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2022.0833}, 
	
ISSN={2752-6879}, 
	
ABSTRACT={Senegal has started a process of structural transformation of its economy building on sectors that offer advantages in terms of agricultural productivity. In this context, cashew nut agricultural projects have been developed to encourage producers to respect good farming practices. To identify the impact of these good practices, a survey was conducted in 2018 among 228 cashew producers in the department of Kolda. To obtain relevant results, the instrumental variable method was chosen to take into account the endogeneity problem of the good practice adoption and to minimize the bias induced by both observable and unobservable characteristics. The results show a positive and significant impact of the adoption of these good agricultural practices on the yields of adopting farmers with or without interaction. The results indicate that adherence to the GAPs has a significant impact regardless of the gender of the farmers, although the impact is higher for women. Our results show that a change in behavior (adoption of good agricultural practices) from cashew producers can be a good instrument for increasing cashew productivity in Senegal. Thus, for a sustainable cashew nut sector, adoption strategies can be developed by mobilizing all actors (community radio stations, village chiefs, development actors, supervisory and research structures...).}}