Seeing is believing ? evidence from an extension network experiment (English)

Extension is designed to enable lab-to-farm technology diffusion. Decentralized models assume that information flows from researchers to extension workers, and from extension agents to contact farmers (CFs). CFs should then train other farmers in their communities. Such a modality may fail to address informational inefficiencies and accountability issues. The authors run a field experiment to measure the impact of augmenting the CF model with a direct...

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Kondylis,Florence;

Mueller,Valerie;

Zhu, Siyao Jessica;
Document Date
2014/08/01
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS7000
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Mozambique, Africa,
Region
Eastern and Southern Africa, Africa,
Disclosure Date
2014/08/01
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Seeing is believing ? evidence from an extension network experiment
Keywords
farmer

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Kondylis,Florence; Mueller,Valerie; Zhu, Siyao Jessica.

Seeing is believing ? evidence from an extension network experiment (English). Impact Evaluation series|Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 7000 Washington, DC: World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/647501468003943080

Seeing is believing ? evidence from an extension network experiment (English)

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