This study aims at shedding light on the potential impact of agricultural technology adoption on
household food consumption status. The analysis is based on the data collected from randomly
selected 200 farm households in Southeast Ethiopia. Since the process of technology adoption
usually involves non-random placement of adopters, we employed a propensity score matching
method to avoid bias arising from possible self-selection. The results show that adoption of
improved wheat technologies has a robust and positive effect on farmers food consumption per
adult equivalent per day. The Average Treatment Effect on the Treated (ATT), based on three
estimation algorithms, ranges from 377.37 calories per day to 603.16 calories per day which
indicates that efforts to disseminate existing wheat technologies will highly contribute to food
security among farm households.
