Junior Farmer Field Schools, Agricultural Knowledge and Spillover Effects: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Northern Uganda
| Autor: | Jacopo Bonan, Laura Pagani |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Bonan, J, Pagani, L |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Food security business.industry 050204 development studies Field (Bourdieu) Farmer Field School 05 social sciences Development Test (assessment) Spillover effect Agriculture 0502 economics and business Business Development3304 Education 050207 economics Socioeconomics Agricultural extension |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Development Studies. 54:2007-2022 |
| ISSN: | 1743-9140 0022-0388 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00220388.2017.1355457 |
| Popis: | We analyse the impact of a junior farmer field school project in Northern Uganda on students’ agricultural knowledge and practices. We also test for the presence of intergenerational learning spillover within households. We use differences-in-differences estimators with ex-ante matching and find evidence that the programme had positive effects on students’ agricultural knowledge and adoption of good practices. The project also produced spillover effects in terms of improvements of household agricultural knowledge and food security. Overall, our results point to the importance of adapting the basic principles of farmer field schools to children. |
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