Information and regulation for technology adoption: lessons from Uganda
Key Messages - Adoption of productivity-enhancing agricultural technology is low, partly because many of these products are of low-quality and because farmers cannot distinguish between high- and low-quality products. Consequently, farmers do not purchase the products and high-quality producers exit...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
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| author | Gilligan, Daniel O. Karachiwalla, Naureen |
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| description | Key Messages - Adoption of productivity-enhancing agricultural technology is low, partly because many of these products are of low-quality and because farmers cannot distinguish between high- and low-quality products. Consequently, farmers do not purchase the products and high-quality producers exit markets. - Governments and/or private regulators can create opportunities for farmers to learn about product quality and increase adoption. One option is a product assurance scheme that provides information to farmers about the quality of the product they purchase. - An example comes from the Uganda National Bureau of Standards, which created a product assurance scheme called Kakasa. The scheme led to large increases in the adoption of both glyphosate herbicide and hybrid maize seed, which both participated in the scheme. - Policymakers should consider providing information to farmers about the quality of agricultural inputs. This can be done without a complicated system of testing, and product assurance can generate sustained increases in adoption and become selfsustaining over time when companies contribute to the scheme. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1435942025-11-06T04:25:49Z Information and regulation for technology adoption: lessons from Uganda Gilligan, Daniel O. Karachiwalla, Naureen technology adoption agricultural technology policies technology farmers agriculture Key Messages - Adoption of productivity-enhancing agricultural technology is low, partly because many of these products are of low-quality and because farmers cannot distinguish between high- and low-quality products. Consequently, farmers do not purchase the products and high-quality producers exit markets. - Governments and/or private regulators can create opportunities for farmers to learn about product quality and increase adoption. One option is a product assurance scheme that provides information to farmers about the quality of the product they purchase. - An example comes from the Uganda National Bureau of Standards, which created a product assurance scheme called Kakasa. The scheme led to large increases in the adoption of both glyphosate herbicide and hybrid maize seed, which both participated in the scheme. - Policymakers should consider providing information to farmers about the quality of agricultural inputs. This can be done without a complicated system of testing, and product assurance can generate sustained increases in adoption and become selfsustaining over time when companies contribute to the scheme. 2021-12-31 2024-05-22T12:15:26Z 2024-05-22T12:15:26Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143594 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Gilligan, Daniel O.; and Karachiwalla, Naureen. 2021. Information and regulation for technology adoption: lessons from Uganda. IFPRI Project December 2021. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134925. https://beamexchange.org/resources/1460/ |
| spellingShingle | technology adoption agricultural technology policies technology farmers agriculture Gilligan, Daniel O. Karachiwalla, Naureen Information and regulation for technology adoption: lessons from Uganda |
| title | Information and regulation for technology adoption: lessons from Uganda |
| title_full | Information and regulation for technology adoption: lessons from Uganda |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Information and regulation for technology adoption: lessons from Uganda |
| title_short | Information and regulation for technology adoption: lessons from Uganda |
| title_sort | information and regulation for technology adoption lessons from uganda |
| topic | technology adoption agricultural technology policies technology farmers agriculture |
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