Junior Farmer Field Schools, Agricultural Knowledge and Spillover Effects: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Northern Uganda

2017/09/21 by Jacopo Bonan, Laura Pagani
Social Sciences · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare #Microfinance and Financial Inclusion #Agricultural Innovations and Practices

paper · doi:10.1080/00220388.2017.1355457

Abstract

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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