The Effects of Decentralized and Video-based Extension on the Adoption of Integrated Soil Fertility Management – Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia

Denise Hörner, Adrien Bouguen, Markus Frölich, Meike Wollni

The slow adoption of new agricultural technologies is an important factor in explaining persistent productivity deficits among smallholders in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Farmers delay in particular the uptake of technology packages. Since knowledge constraints are an important barrier to adoption, effective extension approaches are key. In recent decades, extension systems in many SSA countries have moved towards decentralized "bottom-up" models involving farmers as active stakeholders

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Year of publication:	July 2019
Authors:	Hörner, Denise
Other Persons:	Bouguen, Adrien (contributor) ; Frölich, Markus (contributor) ; Wollni, Meike (contributor)
Institutions:	National Bureau of Economic Research (contributor)
Publisher:	2019: Cambridge, Mass : National Bureau of Economic Research
Subject:	Äthiopien \| Ethiopia \| Agrarboden \| Agricultural soil \| Düngemittel \| Fertilizer \| Innovationsdiffusion \| Innovation diffusion \| Agrarpolitik \| Agricultural policy \| Kausalanalyse \| Causality analysis \| Resampling \| Resampling method

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource illustrations (black and white)
Series:	NBER working paper series ; no. w26052
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	System requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files Mode of access: World Wide Web Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
Other identifiers:	10.3386/w26052 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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