Harvesting the Rain. The Adoption of Environmental Technologies in the Sahel.

Autor/inn/en	Aker, Jenny C.; Jack, B. Kelsey
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	Harvesting the Rain. The Adoption of Environmental Technologies in the Sahel.
Quelle	Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research (2021), 52 S. PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	NBER working paper series. w29518
Beigaben	Illustrationen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
DOI	10.3386/w29518
Schlagwörter	Landwirtschaft; Niger; Technik; Umwelttechnik; Weiterbildung; Qualifikation; Landwirtschaft; Umwelttechnik; Grundeinkommen; Qualifikation; Weiterbildung; Arbeitspapier; Technik; Niger
Abstract	Many agricultural and environmental technologies require large upfront investments in exchange for longer-term benefits. This time profile of costs and benefits makes adoption particularly sensitive to liquidity and credit constraints, which are prevalent in low-income settings. We test the importance of these barriers to the adoption of an agricultural technique that helps reduce land degradation and restore soil fertility in Niger. We find little evidence that liquidity or credit constraints deter adoption: instead, providing farmers with training increases the share of adopters by over 90 percentage points, whereas adding conditional or unconditional cash transfers has no additional effect. Adoption increases agricultural output, reduces land turnover and leads to adoption spillovers up to three years after treatment. These results imply that training can be a cost-effective and scalable means of promoting the adoption of profitable technologies.
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2022/2