Arbeitspapier
Agricultural Transformation and Farmers' Expectations: Experimental Evidence from Uganda
Why adoption rate of potentially profitable agricultural technologies in Africa remains low is still puzzling. This paper uses a randomized control trial to study Ugandan subsistence smallholders' decisions to adopt cash crops. A unique way of eliciting farmers price and yield expectations allows us to investigate the role of farmers' ex-ante beliefs about crop profitability on adoption decisions. We find that the provision of extension services increases oilseeds adoption by 15%, and farmers who under-estimate oilseeds price at baseline are the most likely to adopt the new crops. The results suggest that changes in expectations drive agricultural technology take-up.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: GLO Discussion Paper ; No. 456
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Economic Development: Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products
Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
Agricultural Finance
Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment
Agricultural R&D; Agricultural Technology; Biofuels; Agricultural Extension Services
- Thema
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Technology Adoption
Commercial Farming
Randomized Controlled Trial
Uganda
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Bonan, Jacopo
Kazianga, Harounan
Mendola, Mariapia
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Global Labor Organization (GLO)
- (wo)
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Essen
- (wann)
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2020
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Bonan, Jacopo
- Kazianga, Harounan
- Mendola, Mariapia
- Global Labor Organization (GLO)
Entstanden
- 2020
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