How misinformation and mismatched expectations reduce adoption of improved seeds
Often presented as game-changing solutions, agricultural technologies like improved seeds or fertilisers can lead farmers to adopt one at the expense of others, only to disadopt when the expected gains, based on overly optimistic assumptions about reduced need for complementary inputs, fail to mater...
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| author | Miehe, Caroline Nabwire, Leocardia Sparrow, Robert Spielman, David J. Van Campenhout, Bjorn |
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| description | Often presented as game-changing solutions, agricultural technologies like improved seeds or fertilisers can lead farmers to adopt one at the expense of others, only to disadopt when the expected gains, based on overly optimistic assumptions about reduced need for complementary inputs, fail to materialise. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1747902025-05-21T20:50:21Z How misinformation and mismatched expectations reduce adoption of improved seeds Miehe, Caroline Nabwire, Leocardia Sparrow, Robert Spielman, David J. Van Campenhout, Bjorn agricultural technology farm inputs farmers seeds Often presented as game-changing solutions, agricultural technologies like improved seeds or fertilisers can lead farmers to adopt one at the expense of others, only to disadopt when the expected gains, based on overly optimistic assumptions about reduced need for complementary inputs, fail to materialise. 2025-05-21 2025-05-21T20:49:44Z 2025-05-21T20:49:44Z Opinion Piece https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174790 en https://doi.org/10.1086/735822 Open Access VoxDev Miehe, Caroline; Nabwire, Leocardia; Sparrow, Robert; Spielman, David; and Van Campenhout, Bjorn. 2025. How misinformation and mismatched expectations reduce adoption of improved seeds. VoxDev article published online May 21, 2025. https://voxdev.org/topic/agriculture/how-misinformation-and-mismatched-expectations-reduce-adoption-improved-seeds |
| spellingShingle | agricultural technology farm inputs farmers seeds Miehe, Caroline Nabwire, Leocardia Sparrow, Robert Spielman, David J. Van Campenhout, Bjorn How misinformation and mismatched expectations reduce adoption of improved seeds |
| title | How misinformation and mismatched expectations reduce adoption of improved seeds |
| title_full | How misinformation and mismatched expectations reduce adoption of improved seeds |
| title_fullStr | How misinformation and mismatched expectations reduce adoption of improved seeds |
| title_full_unstemmed | How misinformation and mismatched expectations reduce adoption of improved seeds |
| title_short | How misinformation and mismatched expectations reduce adoption of improved seeds |
| title_sort | how misinformation and mismatched expectations reduce adoption of improved seeds |
| topic | agricultural technology farm inputs farmers seeds |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174790 |
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