Variables | Definition of the variables | Mean | SD |
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Household characteristics | |||
 Household head is female | =1 if household head is female; 0 otherwise | 0.293 | 0.457 |
 Age of household head | Age of the household head | 49.277 | 15.716 |
 Education attained at least primary | =1 if household head have at least primary education; 0 otherwise | 0.966 | 0.183 |
 Married | =1 if household head is married; 0 otherwise | 0.690 | 0.465 |
 Main occupation is farming | =1 if the farmer’s main livelihood is farming; 0 otherwise | 0.853 | 0.355 |
 Land size | Land size in hectares (ha) | 1.694 | 1.522 |
 Household size | Household size | 5.061 | 2.079 |
 Labour | Labour fit to work in the fields | 3.035 | 1.487 |
 Farming experience | Farming experience | 19.812 | 12.191 |
 Credit access | =1 if household have access to agricultural credit; 0 otherwise | 0.672 | 0.471 |
 Extension access | =1 If household have access to agricultural extension; 0 otherwise | 0.750 | 0.435 |
 Group membership | =1 if household is a member of any community group through the IP or any other means; 0 otherwise | 0.629 | 0.485 |
 Received farmer training services | =1 if the household have access to training activities within the area, i.e. on crop and or livestock production and marketing; 0 otherwise | 0.733 | 0.444 |
 Low-wealth category | =1 if household is in the low-wealth category; 0 otherwise | 0.233 | 0.424 |
 High-wealth category | =1 if farmer is in the high-wealth category; 0 otherwise | 0.224 | 0.419 |
Achievements and benefits from IP activities | |||
 Improved market information | =1 if farmer Benefited through improve market information access; 0 otherwise | 0.414 | 0.495 |
 Improved market access | =1 if farmer benefited through improved market access; 0 otherwise | 0.853 | 0.355 |
 Improved income | =1 if farmer benefited through increased household income; 0 otherwise | 0.828 | 0.379 |
 Improved conservation agriculture adoption | =1 if improved conservation agriculture adoption (i.e. more land area or crops under conservation agriculture) was a benefit of IP participation; 0 otherwise | 0.897 | 0.306 |
 Improved soil fertility | =1 if farmer benefit through improved soil fertility; 0 otherwise | 0.750 | 0.435 |
 Improved crop yield | =1 if farmer benefited through improvement in crop yields; 0 otherwise | 0.164 | 0.372 |
 IP_savings eased credit access | =1 if farmer benefited from improved credit access through Improved savings from IP activities; 0 otherwise | 0.319 | 0.468 |
 Negotiation with banks eased credit access | =1 if farmer benefited from improved ease of credit access through negotiations done with local banks from IP activities; 0 otherwise | 0.060 | 0.239 |
 Improved trust eased credit | =1 if farmer benefited from ease of access to credit made possible by improved trust amongst villagers through IP activities; 0 otherwise | 0.371 | 0.485 |
 Number of markets increased | =1 if farmer number of produce market outlets have increased through IP activities; 0 otherwise | 0.759 | 0.430 |
 Food produced 2012/2013 season was enough | =1 if food produced in 2013/2014 season was enough to feed the family; 0 otherwise | 0.819 | 0.387 |
 Food produced 2013/2014 season was enough | =1 if food produced in 2013/2014 season was enough to feed the family; 0 otherwise | 0.759 | 0.430 |
 Improved overall food security | =1 if overall household food security improved from IP activities | 0.828 | 0.379 |
 Farmers built a house | =1 if farmer built a new house and income from IP activities contributed immensely; 0 otherwise | 0.560 | 0.498 |
 Farmers was able to send children to school | =1 if farmer was able to send children to school because of benefits from IP activities; 0 otherwise | 0.836 | 0.372 |