relation: http://oar.icrisat.org/11705/
title: Networks, incentives and technology adoption: evidence from a randomised experiment in Uganda
creator: Shikuku, K M
creator: Melesse, M B
subject: Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
subject: Sub-Saharan Africa
description: 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.
publisher: Oxford University Press
date: 2020-02
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/11705/1/jbaa009.pdf
identifier:   Shikuku, K M and Melesse, M B  (2020) Networks, incentives and technology adoption: evidence from a randomised experiment in Uganda.  European Review of Agricultural Economics (TSI), 47 (5).  pp. 1740-1775.  ISSN 0165-1587     
relation: https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbaa009
relation: doi:10.1093/erae/jbaa009