Impact of human resource development training on crop damages by wild animals in developing countries: experimental evidence from rural Pakistan. Issue 3 (2nd July 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kurosaki, Takashi; Khan, Hidayat Ullah
• Is Part Of: Journal of development effectiveness. Volume 8:Issue 3(2016)
• Page Start: 388
• Page End: 403
• Publication Date: 2016-07-02
• Subjects: Wild animal attack -- production risk -- randomised controlled trial -- cost-benefit analysis -- Pakistan; Economic development -- Periodicals; Developing countries -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals; Economic development; Economic history; Developing countries; Periodicals; 338.91724
• DOI: 10.1080/19439342.2016.1160420
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1943-9342

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Based on a 4-year panel dataset of households collected in rural Pakistan, we examine the impact of a randomised intervention on households' capacity to reduce income losses due to attacks by wild boars. We find that the intervention to teach indigenous techniques of scaring and trapping and modern ones of drugs to induce infertility was highly effective in eliminating the crop-income loss immediately after the intervention, but effects disappeared later. Our finding suggests the difficulty in technology transfer through the training or the high implicit cost in implementing the treatment. Therefore, the intervention was not sustainable at the household level.