How misinformation and mismatched expectations reduce adoption of improved seeds

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research institute
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centre
cg.contributor.affiliationNOVA University Lisbon
cg.contributor.affiliationOne Acre Fund
cg.contributor.affiliationWageningen University & Research
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Institute
cg.contributor.affiliationKatholieke Universiteit Leuven
cg.contributor.donorDutch Research Council
cg.contributor.initiativeSeed Equal
cg.contributor.programAcceleratorBreeding for Tomorrow
cg.coverage.countryUganda
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.coverage.regionSub-Saharan Africa
cg.creator.identifierDavid J. Spielman: 0000-0002-6889-7358
cg.creator.identifierBjorn Van Campenhout: 0000-0003-2404-7826
cg.creator.identifierLeocardia Nabwire: 0000-0002-6877-5748
cg.howPublishedGrey Literature
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot ranked
cg.identifier.urlhttps://voxdev.org/topic/agriculture/how-misinformation-and-mismatched-expectations-reduce-adoption-improved-seeds
cg.reviewStatusInternal Review
cg.subject.impactAreaClimate adaptation and mitigation
cg.subject.impactAreaNutrition, health and food security
cg.subject.impactAreaPoverty reduction, livelihoods and jobs
dc.contributor.authorMiehe, Caroline
dc.contributor.authorNabwire, Leocardia
dc.contributor.authorSparrow, Robert
dc.contributor.authorSpielman, David J.
dc.contributor.authorVan Campenhout, Bjorn
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-21T20:49:44Z
dc.date.available2025-05-21T20:49:44Z
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/174790
dc.titleHow misinformation and mismatched expectations reduce adoption of improved seeds
dcterms.abstractOften presented as game-changing solutions, agricultural technologies like improved seeds or fertilisers can lead farmers to adopt one at the expense of others, only to disadopt when the expected gains, based on overly optimistic assumptions about reduced need for complementary inputs, fail to materialise.
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceGeneral Public
dcterms.audienceFarmers
dcterms.bibliographicCitationMiehe, Caroline; Nabwire, Leocardia; Sparrow, Robert; Spielman, David; and Van Campenhout, Bjorn. 2025. How misinformation and mismatched expectations reduce adoption of improved seeds. VoxDev article published online May 21, 2025. https://voxdev.org/topic/agriculture/how-misinformation-and-mismatched-expectations-reduce-adoption-improved-seeds
dcterms.issued2025-05-21
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserved
dcterms.publisherVoxDev
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1086/735822
dcterms.subjectagricultural technology
dcterms.subjectfarm inputs
dcterms.subjectfarmers
dcterms.subjectseeds
dcterms.typeOpinion Piece

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