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Factor Market Failures and the Adoption of Irrigation in Rwanda (English)

This paper examines constraints to adoption of new technologies in the context of hillside irrigation schemes in Rwanda. It leverages a plot-level spatial regression discontinuity design to produce 3 key results. First, irrigation enables dry season horticultural production, which boosts on-farm cash profits by 53–71 percent. Second, adoption is constrained: access to irrigation causes farmers to substitute labor and inputs away from their other plots...
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Jones,Maria Ruth; Kondylis,Florence; Loeser,John Ashton; Magruder,Jeremy.

Factor Market Failures and the Adoption of Irrigation in Rwanda (English). Impact Evaluation series|Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 9092 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/496531576687282363

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