Increasing the adoption of conservation agriculture: A framed field experiment in Northern Ghana
Conservation agriculture techniques have the potential to increase agricultural production while decreasing CO2 emissions, yet adoption in the developing world remains low—in part because many years of continuous adoption may be required to realize gains in production. We conduct a framed field expe...
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| author | Ambler, Kate de Brauw, Alan Murphy, Mike |
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| description | Conservation agriculture techniques have the potential to increase agricultural production while decreasing CO2 emissions, yet adoption in the developing world remains low—in part because many years of continuous adoption may be required to realize gains in production. We conduct a framed field experiment in northern Ghana to study how incentives and peer information may affect adoption. Incentives increase adoption, both while they are available and after withdrawal. There is no overall effect of peer information, but we do find evidence that information about long-term adoption increased adoption, particularly when that information shows that yield gains have been achieved. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1318672025-04-01T15:50:34Z Increasing the adoption of conservation agriculture: A framed field experiment in Northern Ghana Ambler, Kate de Brauw, Alan Murphy, Mike conservation agriculture carbon dioxide agricultural production information yields Conservation agriculture techniques have the potential to increase agricultural production while decreasing CO2 emissions, yet adoption in the developing world remains low—in part because many years of continuous adoption may be required to realize gains in production. We conduct a framed field experiment in northern Ghana to study how incentives and peer information may affect adoption. Incentives increase adoption, both while they are available and after withdrawal. There is no overall effect of peer information, but we do find evidence that information about long-term adoption increased adoption, particularly when that information shows that yield gains have been achieved. 2023-09 2023-09-14T20:15:57Z 2023-09-14T20:15:57Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/131867 en Open Access Wiley Ambler, Kate; de Brauw, Alan; and Murphy, Mike. 2023. Increasing the adoption of conservation agriculture: A framed field experiment in Northern Ghana. Agricultural Economics 54(5): 742-756. https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12797 |
| spellingShingle | conservation agriculture carbon dioxide agricultural production information yields Ambler, Kate de Brauw, Alan Murphy, Mike Increasing the adoption of conservation agriculture: A framed field experiment in Northern Ghana |
| title | Increasing the adoption of conservation agriculture: A framed field experiment in Northern Ghana |
| title_full | Increasing the adoption of conservation agriculture: A framed field experiment in Northern Ghana |
| title_fullStr | Increasing the adoption of conservation agriculture: A framed field experiment in Northern Ghana |
| title_full_unstemmed | Increasing the adoption of conservation agriculture: A framed field experiment in Northern Ghana |
| title_short | Increasing the adoption of conservation agriculture: A framed field experiment in Northern Ghana |
| title_sort | increasing the adoption of conservation agriculture a framed field experiment in northern ghana |
| topic | conservation agriculture carbon dioxide agricultural production information yields |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/131867 |
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