Impacts of tailored plot-level agricultural extension and crop insurance services based on pictures
Improving the timeliness and relevance of agricultural extension through the use of mobile phones and localized weather information has improved agricultural practices among smallholders in many parts of the world. The proliferation of smartphones in developing countries provides an opportunity to f...
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American Economic Association
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/137218 |
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| author | Kramer, Berber |
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| description | Improving the timeliness and relevance of agricultural extension through the use of mobile phones and localized weather information has improved agricultural practices among smallholders in many parts of the world. The proliferation of smartphones in developing countries provides an opportunity to further tailor advisories by utilizing sophisticated media and allowing for better engagement between farmers and extension providers. We test the impacts of picture-based advisories, low-cost, plot-level, interactive advisory service based on ground images sent by farmers of individual fields. We conduct a cluster randomized trial in India and Kenya to evaluate impacts of these image-based remote advisories on knowledge, technology adoption, and farming outcomes, while assessing heterogeneity in returns and underlying behavioural mechanisms. In addition to advisories, we provide access to plot-level picture-based insurance (PBI), to further enhance agricultural risk management and adoption of recommended practices, and test whether the tailored advisories contribute to reducing information asymmetry problems in PBI. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1372182025-03-13T19:11:27Z Impacts of tailored plot-level agricultural extension and crop insurance services based on pictures Kramer, Berber agriculture behaviour finance gender risk insurance digital technology Improving the timeliness and relevance of agricultural extension through the use of mobile phones and localized weather information has improved agricultural practices among smallholders in many parts of the world. The proliferation of smartphones in developing countries provides an opportunity to further tailor advisories by utilizing sophisticated media and allowing for better engagement between farmers and extension providers. We test the impacts of picture-based advisories, low-cost, plot-level, interactive advisory service based on ground images sent by farmers of individual fields. We conduct a cluster randomized trial in India and Kenya to evaluate impacts of these image-based remote advisories on knowledge, technology adoption, and farming outcomes, while assessing heterogeneity in returns and underlying behavioural mechanisms. In addition to advisories, we provide access to plot-level picture-based insurance (PBI), to further enhance agricultural risk management and adoption of recommended practices, and test whether the tailored advisories contribute to reducing information asymmetry problems in PBI. 2023-06-23 2024-01-05T12:41:31Z 2024-01-05T12:41:31Z Dataset https://hdl.handle.net/10568/137218 en Open Access American Economic Association Kramer, Berber. 2023. "Impacts of tailored plot-level agricultural extension and crop insurance services based on pictures." AEA RCT Registry. June 23. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.11423-1.0 |
| spellingShingle | agriculture behaviour finance gender risk insurance digital technology Kramer, Berber Impacts of tailored plot-level agricultural extension and crop insurance services based on pictures |
| title | Impacts of tailored plot-level agricultural extension and crop insurance services based on pictures |
| title_full | Impacts of tailored plot-level agricultural extension and crop insurance services based on pictures |
| title_fullStr | Impacts of tailored plot-level agricultural extension and crop insurance services based on pictures |
| title_full_unstemmed | Impacts of tailored plot-level agricultural extension and crop insurance services based on pictures |
| title_short | Impacts of tailored plot-level agricultural extension and crop insurance services based on pictures |
| title_sort | impacts of tailored plot level agricultural extension and crop insurance services based on pictures |
| topic | agriculture behaviour finance gender risk insurance digital technology |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/137218 |
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