Increasing the adoption of conservation agriculture: A framed field experiment in Northern Ghana
Conservation agriculture techniques can 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...
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| author | Ambler, Kate de Brauw, Alan Murphy, Mike |
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| description | Conservation agriculture techniques can 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 randomly assigned 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 production gains have been achieved. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1435132025-12-02T21:02:41Z Increasing the adoption of conservation agriculture: A framed field experiment in Northern Ghana Ambler, Kate de Brauw, Alan Murphy, Mike field experimentation conservation agriculture agriculture incentives agricultural productivity Conservation agriculture techniques can 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 randomly assigned 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 production gains have been achieved. 2020-04-01 2024-05-22T12:14:46Z 2024-05-22T12:14:46Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143513 en https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134183 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134694 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2021.102736 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Ambler, Kate; de Brauw, Alan; and Murphy, Mike. 2020. Increasing the adoption of conservation agriculture: A framed field experiment in Northern Ghana. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1932. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133739. |
| spellingShingle | field experimentation conservation agriculture agriculture incentives agricultural productivity 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 | field experimentation conservation agriculture agriculture incentives agricultural productivity |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143513 |
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