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Microfinance to Increase Agricultural Technology Adoption among Rural Farmers in India
Researchers evaluated the expansion of a rural financial services provider in Tamil Nadu, India in order to understand how access to financial services, information, and exposure to risk affect technology adoption and well-being among farming households.
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Leveraging Local Governments to Support Rice Mechanization in India
Working with local government leaders and agricultural extension agents, the researcher is conducting a randomized evaluation to test the impact of promoting a mechanization technology. Uniquely, the researcher will closely track how employment shifts for women who formerly did the mechanized work.
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Credit, Uncertainty, and Monitoring for Technology Adoption
In Senegal, researchers are testing a new contract arrangement between farmers and cooperatives that includes credit, training, and a price premium for certified low-aflatoxin groundnuts on farmers’ decisions to adopt Aflasafe, aflatoxin levels, and output sales.
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The Impact of Contract Farming on High Yielding Seed Adoption in Ghana
Researchers are partnering with the Savanna Farmers Marketing Company (SFMC) to evaluate the impact of a contract farming program that encourages the uptake of new technologies on the adoption of high yielding seeds in northern Ghana.
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Connecting Smallholder Farmers to Agricultural Value Chains in Rwanda
Researchers are evaluating the effects of providing farmers with access to maize processing services that could improve maize quality on their input decisions.
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Price Incentives to Improve Coffee Quality in Uganda
Researchers are conducting a randomized evaluation to test whether providing traders “bonuses” for high-quality coffee affects the prices traders offer farmers for their coffee and whether this, in turn, affects farmers’ incentives to invest in the quality of their production.
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The impact of payments for ecosystem services on crop burning in India
Researchers are conducting a randomized evaluation to test the impact of a PES program that offers financial rewards to paddy farmers for reducing burning of crop residue (or “stubble”) on stubble burning in Punjab, India.
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Building Footbridges to Improve Market Access and Agricultural Outcomes in Rwanda
In partnership with Bridges to Prosperity, the researchers are conducting a randomized evaluation across 23 districts in Rwanda to determine the impact of building footbridges on wages and agricultural technology adoption and production.
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Yasmina Laasri
Initiative Resource
Initiative projects and documents
Guide to Path-to-Scale Awards
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Edger Morekwa
Blog
Building research partnerships to address wildfire risk in Jackson County, Oregon
Deputy Director of the Western Fire Chiefs Association Chief Bob Horton and researchers Judson Boomhower (UC San Diego) and Patrick Baylis (University of British Columbia) discuss their research partnership to evaluate a program encouraging households to take up wildfire prevention practices.
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Lakshmi Aishwarya Atluri
Aishwarya Atluri is a Research Associate at J-PAL South Asia, where she works on the Telangana School Leadership Training Project.
Evaluation
Innovative Finance for Technology Adoption in Western Kenya
Researchers randomly evaluated whether well-timed access to credit would allow maize farmers in Kenya to make better use of storage and sell their output at higher prices. The loan offers allowed farmers to store more maize and earn higher revenues, with larger revenue impacts for farmers granted loans immediately following harvest and in areas where a smaller share of farmers was offered loans.