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\Large{\textbf{Does Risk Aversion Influences Adoption to Drought Tolerant Maize Variety in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda?\footnote{\textbf{Contact Address:} Woinishet Asnake Sisay, Cimmyt, Socio Economics, Bole Kifle Ketema, 5689~Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, \mbox{e-mail}: \email{w.asnake@cgiar.org}}\\[0.8ex]}}
\normalsize{\textsc{Woinishet Asnake Sisay$^{1}$, Solomon Alemu$^{2}$, Paswel Marenya$^{3}$}}
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\item[]{\small{\textit{$^{1}$Cimmyt, Socio Economics, Ethiopia}}}
\item[]{\small{\textit{$^{2}$International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Socio Economics, }}}
\item[]{\small{\textit{$^{3}$International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Socio Economics, }}}
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The climate change in Africa is mostly associated with a change in rainfall patterns and variability which could increase frequency of droughts and floods. However, the adverse effect of climate change can be reduced through implementation of different mechanisms such as planting drought tolerant (DT) varieties. However, agricultural technology adoption rate is lower in developing countries. Various studies tries to identify the reason behind this. But it was found that important variable like perception of farmers was not considered in adoption study. This study will focus on identifying the extent to which perception of a farmer especially perception towards risk and farmers preferred level of risk influence decision of adoption to drought tolerant maize seed by analysing the experience from Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda. Normally people prefer to decide on certain issues. In this study it is planned to identify if the information that is useful for making adoption decision are provided to the farmer; then does the farmer make decision to adopt agricultural technology? It was hypothesised that in order to grow DT information about the seed and the existence of drought is required. Farmers are being perceiving occurrence of drought. While controlling variables that have potential to affect adoption it is necessary to identify what drives farmers to make adoption decision in association with the risk averse perception of the farmer by comparing farmers that have information on these two variables with others. The study also identify other determining factors for technology adoption. If the result shows that risk averse perception matters then the study will focus on identifying which farmers are risk averse. The study depends on a data collected from 928, 1020 and 998 maize growing farmers in three countries and analysis will be done using econometrics studies. }

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\noindent \textbf{Keywords:} Agriculture, Drought Tolerant, East Africa, Risk Averse, Technology Adoption
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