The project Reaching Smallholder Women with Information Services and Resilience Strategies to Respond to Climate Change aimed to increase the climate resilience of poor women and men farmers in Africa south of the Sahara and South Asia — especiall
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Agricultural extension services play an important role in agricultural development.
Resilience in farm technical efficiency and enabling factors: Insights from panel farm enterprise surveys in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
Economic resilience within the agrifood system is becoming increasingly crucial for assuring sustainable development. This is particularly so in regions with volatile and fragile environments, including Central Asia.
Information and communications technology (ICT) in low- and middle-income countries has changed significantly over the past seven decades, starting with radio and newspapers and transforming almost daily with the rise of smartphones and mobile Int
Strict lockdown measures implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic had extensive impacts on agriculture, and especially on women farmers. These effects were worsened by a lack of reliable and timely access to agricultural extension.
Effectiveness of a remote agricultural extension program in times of crisis: Experimental evidence from Myanmar
Agricultural extension can have important impacts on vulnerable populations by increasing food production, which improves both rural incomes and urban food security.
Sex-disaggregated agricultural extension and weather variability in Africa south of the Sahara
Assessing feasibility and effects of personalized remote advisories based on smartphone pictures: A formative evaluation in India
This paper provides a formative evaluation of picture-based advisories (PBA), using a cluster randomized trial in the states of Punjab and Haryana in northern India.
Enumerator bias in yield measurement: A comparison of harvest versus allometric measurement of coffee yields
Measuring yield accurately is critical for evaluating the impact of interventions that aim to increase agricultural productivity but presents challenges in the case of coffee due to the long harvest period.
Self-selection versus population-based sampling for evaluation of an agronomy training program in Uganda
A challenge to evaluating the impact of agronomy training programs, particularly on downstream impacts such as yield, is the identification of a sample with sufficiently high take-up propensity.
CGIAR’s digital extension services bridge the gap between the development and the adoption of new climate change adaptation strategies.
The gap between technology awareness and adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa: A literature review for the DeSIRA project
This paper reviews different studies on technology adoption in sub-Saharan Africa to understand the determinants of low adoption of improved technologies, with a special focus on Malawi.
Information and communication technologies to provide agricultural advice to smallholder farmers: Experimental evidence from Uganda
Agricultural advisory services generally rely on interpersonal knowledge transfers by agricultural extension agents who visit farmers to provide information.
Advances in plant breeding and biotechnology have the potential to transform agriculture in Africa, but sustainable and inclusive distribution and marketing of quality seeds remains a significant challenge.
Agriculture and youth in Nigeria: Aspirations, challenges, constraints, and resilience
Nigeria’s rural youth are facing various challenges in agriculture, with limited job opportunities outside the sector.
Women often have less access to agricultural information than men, constraining their participation in decision-making on crops, technologies, and practices.
Women’s empowerment, agricultural extension, and digitalization: Disentangling information and role model effects in rural Uganda
In many developing countries, agricultural extension services are generally biased towards men, with information targeted mainly to male members of a farming household and in formats that are rarely tailored to female members.
Empowering women with digital extension in Uganda: Effects of information and role models
In many developing countries, agricultural extension services are generally biased towards men, with information targeted mainly to male members of a farming household and in formats that are rarely tailored to women.