Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C18396
Notes:
Pages 71-124 in Martin Pineiro and Eduardo Trigo (eds.), Technical change and social conflict in agriculture: Latin American perspectives. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado. 248 pages.
35 pages, We use data from a randomised experiment in Uganda to examine effects of incentives
on the decision to adopt drought-tolerant maize varieties (DTMVs) and mechanisms
through which effects occur. We find that social recognition (SR) incentives to a
random subset of trained farmers – disseminating farmers (DFs) – increase knowledge
transmission from DFs to their co-villagers and change information networks of both
DFs and their neighbours. SR also increases DFs’ likelihood of adopting DTMVs.
However, the corresponding results for private material rewards are not conclusively
strong. We find no evidence that incentives for knowledge diffusion increase the
likelihood of co-villagers adopting DTMVs
Swinton, Scott M. (author / Michigan State University), van Ravenswaay, Eileen (author / Michigan State University), and Owens, N.N. (author / Michigan State University)
Format:
Survey report
Publication Date:
1997
Published:
USA: Michigan State University
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 106 Document Number: C09279
Notes:
Staff Paper 97-1. Michigan State University. 19 p.
