Agricultural market reforms and technology adoption in Senegal
Many smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa do not use basic agricultural technologies to improve crop quality. In the Senegal River Valley, researchers tested whether receiving advance information on a market reform—introducing quality labels for onions and selling by weight—would lead to change...
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Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
2017
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| author | Bernard, Tanguy Mbaye, Samba de Janvry, Alain Sadoulet, Elisabeth |
| author_browse | Bernard, Tanguy Mbaye, Samba Sadoulet, Elisabeth de Janvry, Alain |
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| description | Many smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa do not use basic agricultural technologies to improve crop quality. In the Senegal River Valley, researchers tested whether receiving advance information on a market reform—introducing quality labels for onions and selling by weight—would lead to changes in farmers’ production habits. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1462812025-12-08T10:06:44Z Agricultural market reforms and technology adoption in Senegal Bernard, Tanguy Mbaye, Samba de Janvry, Alain Sadoulet, Elisabeth onions agriculture smallholders innovation adoption agricultural economics quality labels Many smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa do not use basic agricultural technologies to improve crop quality. In the Senegal River Valley, researchers tested whether receiving advance information on a market reform—introducing quality labels for onions and selling by weight—would lead to changes in farmers’ production habits. 2017 2024-06-21T09:06:28Z 2024-06-21T09:06:28Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146281 en https://doi.org/10.1093/ajae/aax033 application/pdf Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative Bernard, Tanguy; Mbaye, Samba; de Janvry, Alain; and Sadoulet, Elisabeth. 2017. Agricultural market reforms and technology adoption in Senegal. Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative (ATAI) Brief. https://www.povertyactionlab.org/evaluation/agricultural-market-reforms-and-technology-adoption-senegal |
| spellingShingle | onions agriculture smallholders innovation adoption agricultural economics quality labels Bernard, Tanguy Mbaye, Samba de Janvry, Alain Sadoulet, Elisabeth Agricultural market reforms and technology adoption in Senegal |
| title | Agricultural market reforms and technology adoption in Senegal |
| title_full | Agricultural market reforms and technology adoption in Senegal |
| title_fullStr | Agricultural market reforms and technology adoption in Senegal |
| title_full_unstemmed | Agricultural market reforms and technology adoption in Senegal |
| title_short | Agricultural market reforms and technology adoption in Senegal |
| title_sort | agricultural market reforms and technology adoption in senegal |
| topic | onions agriculture smallholders innovation adoption agricultural economics quality labels |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146281 |
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