Accelerating technical change through ICT: Evidence from a video-mediated extension experiment in Ethiopia

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.contributor.donorBill & Melinda Gates Foundationen
cg.contributor.donorUnited States Agency for International Developmenten
cg.coverage.countryEthiopia
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2ET
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.coverage.regionSub-Saharan Africa
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.creator.identifierGashaw T. Abate: 0000-0003-2026-8066
cg.creator.identifierTanguy Bernard: 0000-0003-2554-0217
cg.creator.identifierSimrin Makhija: 0000-0002-4864-7722
cg.creator.identifierDavid J. Spielman: 0000-0002-6889-7358
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.106089en
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Development Strategies and Governance Unit
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Systems Transformation - Food and Nutrition Policy
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Systems Transformation - Transformation Strategies
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Feed the Future Initiative
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Developing Local Extension Capacity (DLEC)
cg.identifier.publicationRankA
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn0305-750Xen
cg.issueJanuary 2023en
cg.journalWorld Developmenten
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.volume161en
dc.contributor.authorAbate, Gashaw T.en
dc.contributor.authorBernard, Tanguyen
dc.contributor.authorMakhija, Simrinen
dc.contributor.authorSpielman, David J.en
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-14T12:08:50Zen
dc.date.available2024-03-14T12:08:50Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/140026
dc.titleAccelerating technical change through ICT: Evidence from a video-mediated extension experiment in Ethiopiaen
dcterms.abstractDespite enthusiasm around applications of information and communications technologies (ICTs) to smallholder agriculture in many lower-income countries, there are still many questions on the effectiveness of ICT-based approaches. This study assesses the impacts of video-mediated agricultural extension service provision on farmers’ adoption of improved agricultural technologies and practices in Ethiopia using data from a two-year randomized experiment. Our results show that the video-mediated extension approach significantly increases uptake of recommended technologies and practices by improving extension access and farmer knowledge. Specifically, we find that video-mediated extension reaches a wider audience than the government’s conventional extension approach and leads to higher levels of farmer understanding and uptake of the subject technologies in those locations randomly assigned to the program. While our results also point to greater extension access and greater knowledge among female spouses in locations where both male and female spouses were targeted by the program, we do not find clear evidence that a more inclusive approach translates into higher uptake of the subject technologies. Finally, we find that the video-mediated approach becomes less costly as the scale of operation increases.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationAbate, Gashaw Tadesse; Bernard, Tanguy; Makhija, Simrin; and Spielman, David J. 2022. Accelerating technical change through ICT: Evidence from a video-mediated extension experiment in Ethiopia. World Development 161 (January 2023): 106089. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.106089en
dcterms.issued2023-01-01
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherElsevieren
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll5/id/8372en
dcterms.subjectcostsen
dcterms.subjectcrop managementen
dcterms.subjectgenderen
dcterms.subjectagricultural extensionen
dcterms.subjectfarmersen
dcterms.subjectsmallholdersen
dcterms.subjectgovernmenten
dcterms.subjectinnovation adoptionen
dcterms.subjectdeveloping countriesen
dcterms.subjectexperimentationen
dcterms.subjectinformation and communication technologiesen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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