Agricultural Production and Access to Energy in Bolivia, Peru, and Colombia
Peer Reviewed
Date issued
August 2021
Subject
Agricultural Productivity;
Electricity Coverage;
Rural Electrification;
Rural Area;
Energy Consumption;
Agricultural Production
JEL code
Q12 - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets;
Q14 - Agricultural Finance;
Q40 - Energy: General;
C31 - Cross-Sectional Models • Spatial Models • Treatment Effect Models • Quantile Regressions • Social Interaction Models
Country
Colombia;
Peru;
Bolivia
Category
Technical Notes
In this paper, we explore the link between energy and agricultural production in Bolivia, Peru, and Colombia. The economic literature and policy reports, discussed here, indicate that access to energy (electricity) has a positive effect on agricultural production. To test this hypothesis, we look at the agricultural census and national survey to estimate the effect of energy use on the value of production using the Propensity Score Matching (PSM) technique. We found that, in the three countries, access to energy increases the value of agricultural production.
