Increasing the adoption of conservation agriculture: A framed field experiment in Northern Ghana

Kate Ambler, Alan de Brauw and Mike Murphy

No 1932, IFPRI discussion papers from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: Conservation agriculture techniques can increase agricultural production while decreasing CO2 emissions, yet adoption in the developing world remains low—in part because many years of continuous adoption may be required to realize gains in production. We conduct a framed field experiment in northern Ghana to study how randomly assigned incentives and peer information may affect adoption. Incentives increase adoption, both while they are available and after withdrawal. There is no overall effect of peer information, but we do find evidence that information about long-term adoption increased adoption, particularly when that information shows that production gains have been achieved.

Keywords: field experimentation; conservation agriculture; agriculture; incentives; agricultural productivity; Ghana; Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Western Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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