Using incentives to improve performance of extension services in Rwanda
The Feed the Future Developing Local Extension Capacity (DLEC), in partnership with One Acre Fund and the Rwanda Agriculture Board, is investigating the impact of providing incentives to farmer promoters at national scale. Acting as role model farmers, they are the first point of contact for Rwandan...
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2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/171238 |
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| author | Kinyua, Henry Lion, Karin Agarwal, Shreya |
| author_browse | Agarwal, Shreya Kinyua, Henry Lion, Karin |
| author_facet | Kinyua, Henry Lion, Karin Agarwal, Shreya |
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| description | The Feed the Future Developing Local Extension Capacity (DLEC), in partnership with One Acre Fund and the Rwanda Agriculture Board, is investigating the impact of providing incentives to farmer promoters at national scale. Acting as role model farmers, they are the first point of contact for Rwandan farmers with the goal of improving productivity by increasing adoption of good agricultural practices and access to improved inputs. Farmer promoters establish village demonstration plots to showcase good agricultural practices and their impact on yield, train farmers, and support the implementation of the government’s subsidy system through marketing of inputs. |
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| institution | CGIAR Consortium |
| language | Inglés |
| publishDate | 2019 |
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| spelling | CGSpace1712382025-02-19T14:36:31Z Using incentives to improve performance of extension services in Rwanda Kinyua, Henry Lion, Karin Agarwal, Shreya incentives extension systems farmers The Feed the Future Developing Local Extension Capacity (DLEC), in partnership with One Acre Fund and the Rwanda Agriculture Board, is investigating the impact of providing incentives to farmer promoters at national scale. Acting as role model farmers, they are the first point of contact for Rwandan farmers with the goal of improving productivity by increasing adoption of good agricultural practices and access to improved inputs. Farmer promoters establish village demonstration plots to showcase good agricultural practices and their impact on yield, train farmers, and support the implementation of the government’s subsidy system through marketing of inputs. 2019 2025-01-29T12:57:54Z 2025-01-29T12:57:54Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/171238 en Open Access Digital Green Kinyua, Henry; Lion, Karin; and Agarwal, Shreya. 2019. Using incentives to improve performance of extension services in Rwanda. https://www.digitalgreen.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Rwanda-Factsheet.pdf |
| spellingShingle | incentives extension systems farmers Kinyua, Henry Lion, Karin Agarwal, Shreya Using incentives to improve performance of extension services in Rwanda |
| title | Using incentives to improve performance of extension services in Rwanda |
| title_full | Using incentives to improve performance of extension services in Rwanda |
| title_fullStr | Using incentives to improve performance of extension services in Rwanda |
| title_full_unstemmed | Using incentives to improve performance of extension services in Rwanda |
| title_short | Using incentives to improve performance of extension services in Rwanda |
| title_sort | using incentives to improve performance of extension services in rwanda |
| topic | incentives extension systems farmers |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/171238 |
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